The island has rebuilt itself from rubble after a North Korean artillery attack in 2010 killed four South Koreans.
Moon Sun-ki vividly remembers being stunned to witness artillery shells crushing Yeonpyeong’s small houses with flimsy roofs. https://t.co/DaEPP69RLy
As inter-Korean ties sink to their lowest in years, residents of the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong less than 2 miles from North Korean shores fear that the Kim Jong Un regime could launch a surprise assault https://t.co/e8fi4FfTVp https://t.co/1R2OVLG3qo
But it's not a static issue.
As policymakers (mostly men) struggle with government solutions, changemakers throughout South Korea are defying gendered expectations and carving out a new way of living.
We met some of them and you can meet them too:
https://t.co/uWoJFcd8v0
First time in my life that I can walk into a UK newsagent, pick up a newspaper, and see my own work published inside!
Reporting on this story, I felt like I was listening to my own story of working in a Korean office until 11pm many nights, sometimes until 3am. No overtime pay.
Countries in Asia are seeing the value of their money plunge against a strong dollar, raising painful memories of the 1997 financial crash.
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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: A leading sports official has spoken of an endemic culture of bribery and corruption in the Olympic movement, claiming he was involved in paying bribes to IOC members to secure taekwondo’s place in the Olympic Games
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🔺 NEW: “This has been too much stress in my life, to keep all the secrets. I have cancer and I don’t know when I’m going to die. I want to get it off my chest"
Ho Kim interview | ✍️ @Lawton_Times
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Here's the 2021 breakdown of the byline of every lead front page photo by gender in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Globe and Mail, Le Monde, and The Guardian:
Though I live in an echo chamber of like-minded Koreans and my sample size is not that great, this time I feel that many people are not necessarily voting for their preferred candidate, but to prevent what they consider the worst from being elected.
A crowd gathers for a candlelight vigil in front of the Russian Embassy in Seoul. They chant in English and Ukrainian: “Hands off Ukraine! Peace for Ukraine!”
NEW: AMEJA’s full statement on the comments about “civilized” countries, people that don’t “look like refugees” and the like in recent coverage of the war in Ukraine.
PHOTOS: For many children in Ukraine, the war has meant sheltering in basements and subway stations while Russian forces attack cities. For others, it has meant a scramble to escape, leaving homes and fathers. Some have been killed or injured. https://t.co/1Vq6NJXPU9
We're thrilled to announce the 2022 Women Photograph Mentorship Class!
Our program will pair 24 early career photojournalists with 24 industry leaders over the course of a year.
Connect with next year's mentees and learn more about their work here:
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Social distancing assumes you live in a country with a healthy safety net, where your hospital system can contend with any curve, flattened or not, and a nuclear family unit is the norm.
But for millions of people this isn't the case, writes @OhTimehin:
https://t.co/cz2QuVQ7bC