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This investigation dispatch is extremely unusual and it shows that Amnesty International considers the current situation in Korea to be very urgent. This past May 28, the Korean bureau of Amnesty International held a press conference regarding its annual country report...
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Since we had that conversation, measures taken against the protesters have hardened. The government has said it cannot tolerate "violent, illegal rallies." They have tried to hinder the protest by...
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“I will go to Disneyland to stab visitors to death,” the 19-year-old wrote, according to a police official in Chiba, the suburban area where the amusement park is located.
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Currently, the police have received arrest warrants for Baek, as well as Park Won-seok, the team leader of The Anti Mad Cow Organization who were both suspected of promoting the beef protests and the candlelight vigil...
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ChoJoongDong are private companies but as media outlets they also have characteristics of public institutions. Media produces news for profit but they also provide public benefits. In reality, the media represents...
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According to yifei-liu.com, she was listed 87th place in the Forbes List of Celebrities for China. I wonder who the other top celebrities are. Anyways, here is a clip of the movie, The Forbidden Kingdom.
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Project Runway is coming to Korea. Cable channel On Style is producing and airing the competitive reality show for fashion-designer aspirants, having bought the rights
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B-list boyband SS501 released their new digital single “You are My Heaven”. The mediocre song amounts to a lackluster pile of notes and does nothing but showcase
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The “romantic musical
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I just received my copy of the interview I had last month with Korea Agra Food, which is a trade journal that promotes Korean food. Here are some hi res photos I took of the article. I have larger versions of these photos in my Flickr account, if it’s too hard to read here.
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As the Candlelight Vigil ended last Saturday night, people started marching along Taepeong Road and Jong Road thanks to the barricade of police cars in front of the Press Center. The situation felt d
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Members of human rights monitoring groups also did not escape the steel car parts thrown by the police. The scene was filled with calls for medical help and hurt and bloodied people. That day, the government crossed a line...
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A report by a British charity says there has been a sharp decline in the number of young girls to boys in some parts of India in the last five years. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the cultural preference for sons has led to a skewed ratio of girls to boys in India as [...]
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The eventual blame fell upon a scapegoat, the chief army engineer in charge of the bridge at the time, Colonel Ch'oe Chang-sik. Colonel Ch'oe was executed by a firing squad on Sept. 21, 1950. A later in
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