Cat Barton

Bloomberg bureau chief in Seoul covering North and South Korea. Previously: AFP/Hong Kong, Hanoi, Dhaka, Phnom Penh. Views my own

[Claire LEE @CLAIRE_D_AIRE]

The final instalment of the 2024 border town trilogy: S.Korea's border island Ganghwa is being bombarded nightly with blood-curdling sounds, part of a new campaign by the North that is driving residents to despair. @AFP spoke to residents, sound engineers and historians: https://t.co/dv1DxfCJ0R

[Claire LEE @CLAIRE_D_AIRE]

"How can women love, marry, or have children with men who so openly disregard us?" @AFP spoke to SKorean participants of the radical feminist "4B" movement, which has seen a surge of interest in the US since Donald Trump won the presidential election: https://t.co/7fdVXN08vL

[Andrés R. Martínez @AMartinezNYT]

A Messy Problem in Orderly Singapore: Keeping Track of Cats https://t.co/3CEJ0bXRlW

[فرانس برس بالعربية @AFPar]

أعلن رئيس #كوريا_الجنوبية يون سوك يول الخميس أنّ بلاده التي تُعتبر أحد أكبر مصدّري الأسلحة في العالم "لا تستبعد" إمكان أن ترسل بصورة مباشرة أسلحة إلى #أوكرانيا.

https://t.co/QCiqKa4vKT #فرانس_برس

✍️ @cat_barton @jin_kyu

[فرانس برس بالعربية @AFPar]

عندما حاولت كيم يي-جي ممارسة رياضة الرماية لأول مرة في سن الثانية عشرة، لم تكن قادرة على حمل المسدس حتى. لكنّها باتت اليوم الرامية الأولمبية الأكثر شهرة، بفضل أعصابها الفولاذية و...إيلون ماسك.

https://t.co/Erz376DCk4 #فرانس_برس

✍️ @cat_barton @jin_kyu

[Cat Barton @cat_barton]

Yes @AFP Seoul is as obsessed w South Korea’s most bad ass Olympian Kim Ye-ji as the rest of the internet https://t.co/SQ2hO94Ig6

[South China Morning Post @SCMPNews]

As far as this South Korean is concerned, being a "good" wife or mother has never been the purpose of her life. Read more: https://t.co/I7bR6nxedx

[Cat Barton @cat_barton]

RT @CLAIRE_D_AIRE: At her rural home in SKorea, Seen Aromi practices yoga, sleeps in and exhorts her 200K YouTube followers to embrace bein…

[AFP Brasil @AFPBrasil]

Desertor norte-coreano lança balões com propaganda para derrubar Kim Jong Un https://t.co/LDugV8R6Fs #AFP por @jin_kyu e @cat_barton via @exame #CoreiadoNorte #política #ParkSangHak

[فرانس برس بالعربية @AFPar]

أشاد الرئيس الروسي فلاديمير #بوتين الثلاثاء بكوريا الشمالية وشكرها على "دعمها القوي" للحرب التي تشنها موسكو في أوكرانيا قبيل زيارة لبيونغ يانغ من شأنها أن تعزز العلاقات الدفاعية بين الدولتين المسلّحَتين نووياً.

https://t.co/SCONhj3C5j #فرانس_برس

✍️ @cat_barton

[Claire LEE @CLAIRE_D_AIRE]

When Bae Jin-soo quit his stable job to become a storyteller, everyone around him had doubts and he barely knew how to draw. Around 17 years later, he is one of the biggest names in South Korea's thriving billion-dollar #webtoon industry. @AFP story: https://t.co/zRQPMolPEv

[Hieun Shin (신희은) @hieunshin]

Happy Pride month!🌈🏳️‍🌈 I met South Korea's first South Korea's first openly LGBTQ legislator, Cha Hae-young:
“We need to show the people that we exist,” Cha, who uses they/them pronouns, told AFP. https://t.co/jayhbKv9GA

[Tomohiro Osaki @TomohiroOsaki]

South Korea's underdeveloped porn industry is a personal tragedy for many there who are unable to properly discuss sex/desire because of its "taboo" nature, an entrepreneur tells @jin_kyu & @cat_barton

"I'd like South Korea to be more open about sex"

https://t.co/mIY5amasl9

[Claire LEE @CLAIRE_D_AIRE]

"Telling young people to spend the next 20 years repaying money lost to fraud is akin to telling them to stop living." South Korea's "jeonse" housing scams have resulted in at least 8 deaths. I've spoken to the victims. @AFP story: https://t.co/Top77K2Cku

[Peter Stebbings @pstebbings]

They still have no replacement three months after the sacking of Jurgen Klinsmann and all is not well in South Korean football.

By @AFP in Seoul/Tokyo

https://t.co/3ki2cdFohk

[Satish Cheney @SatishCheney]

A controversial South Korean DJ "monk" will avoid a ban in Singapore by performing in the city-state without his robe or any religious references, a nightclub hosting him said Thursday.⁦@AFP⁩ https://t.co/sZd5qa5CSM

[Katie Forster @katieforster]

'I would be so sorry if my children never experienced a beautiful spring day'

When he was a 20-week-old embryo, Choi Hee-woo became one of the world's youngest-ever plaintiffs by joining a groundbreaking climate lawsuit against South Korea https://t.co/qI7fnVB0sp

[Claire LEE @CLAIRE_D_AIRE]

ICYMI: The creative director behind the girl band #NewJeans has found online fame after a tearful, profanity-laced news conference last month in which she slammed some of K-pop's most powerful men as "middle-aged jerks". @AFP https://t.co/wpXsPukY53

[Hieun Shin (신희은) @hieunshin]

My first feature piece at the @AFP! I wrote about how Buddhism is cool and hip among young people in South Korea and interviewed the man at the centre of the trend, a DJ 'monk' named 'NewJeansNim' (who has nothing to do with NewJeans). https://t.co/0e77MpaK8x

[Hieun Shin (신희은) @hieunshin]

Some personal news: After six wonderful years at The Economist, I have taken a new role at @AFP as a Seoul Correspondent. All news tips are welcome!👍