It’s a long-buried part of South Korean history: women compelled by force, trickery or desperation into prostitution, with the complicity of their own leaders. By Choe Sang-Hun Photographs by Jean Chung Choe Sang-Hun examined unsealed government documents and interviewed six women who worked in camp towns around American military bases in South Korea for this article. May …
Did racism or theology or gender motivate the shootings in Georgia? All of the above. By Mihee Kim-Kort Ms. Kim-Kort is a Presbyterian minister and a doctoral candidate in religious studies.March 24, 2021 “When news about the Atlanta killings broke, I saw in Korean sources first that six of the dead were Asian women, four of …
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By Alexander Chee Aug. 27, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET 81 In the latest article from “Beyond the World War II We Know,” a series by The Times that documents lesser-known stories from World War II, the author Alexander Chee looks back at the dark legacy of the Japanese occupation of Korea — and a once-unknown personal connection …
By E. Tammy Kim The coronavirus erupted in South Korea in late January, six months into Yoo Yoon-sook’s new job. She had just moved from Seoul, where she spent three decades working in the same pharmacy, to open the Hankyeol (“Steadfast”) Pharmacy in the city of Incheon, near the international airport. Ms. Yoo hadn’t really gotten …
Japan and South Korea stir up an old, odd rivalry. By Ian Buruma Mr. Buruma is a writer and a professor at Bard College. Aug. 12, 2019 CreditCreditOleksii Liskonih/iStock, via Getty Images Plus “In a rational world, South Korea and Japan ought to be the best of friends. Their cultures and languages are closely linked. Their …
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. By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist Feb. 28, 2019 86 ImagePresident Trump and Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Thursday.CreditCreditEvan Vucci/Associated Press “President Trump was right to walk away from his summit with Kim Jong-un rather than accept a bad nuclear agreement, but the outcome underscores that he was bamboozled last year at his first summit …
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“An optimistic take on Donald Trump’s historic meeting Tuesday with Kim Jong-un is that it’s Geneva Redux — a reprise of the 1985 summit between Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that established their rapport, fundamentally altered the tenor of relations between the superpowers and led within a few years to the end of …
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by Tyler Cowen June 12, 2018 at 8:46 am in Current Affairs Political Science by Tyler Cowen June 12, 2018 at 8:46 am in “Many of you have asked what I think, so here goes: 1. There is a secret (and unenforceable) deal beneath what is reported. You may think this is good or bad, but for heaven’s sake …
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It sure looks as if President Trump was hoodwinked in Singapore. Trump made a huge concession — the suspension of military exercises with South Korea. That’s on top of the broader concession of the summit meeting itself, security guarantees he gave North Korea and the legitimacy that the summit provides his counterpart, Kim Jong-un. Within …
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“Shock! Horror! President Trump is actually doing something right. Sadly, Democrats in Congress are responding in a quite Trumpian way: They seem more concerned with undermining him than supporting a peace process with North Korea. They are on the same side as National Security Adviser John Bolton, quietly subverting attempts to pursue peace. While international …