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Stock market boom in S Korea calls for better corporate governance to quash ‘Korea discount’
Despite stellar company performances, the Korean stock market has long suffered a low valuation due to weak corporate governance. The recent market boom may bring about a change. https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/2/16/as-house-prices-soar-ordinary-south-koreans-go-all-in-on-stocks
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Webtoon: Are Korean web comics going to be the next K-pop?
South Korea’s digital-friendly comics, namely ‘webtoon’, have inspired global hit series like All of Us Are Dead, Sweet Home and Hellbound but could they themselves be a cultural phenomenon following K-pop? The following is my original draft for After Squid Game and Kpop, Korean webtoons get moment in the sun which is published on Al…
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Drowning in debt, South Korean businesses revolt over COVID rules
My first story for Al Jazeera English: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/1/7/south-koreas-small-business-rage-as-covid-rules-drag-on
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My father’s bones in three suitcases: the children of Korean War prisoners who never came home
Even after the armistice was signed off 67 years ago today, North Korea has not returned many of its prisoners, the number of which is estimated to be over 50,000. Some of their children, who had to bear all the discrimination for being the offspring of the reactionaries, escaped to the South, in hopes of…
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Samsung heir’s apology could be the first step of his get-out-of-jail-free card
One thing that Jay Y. Lee is better at doing than his father Lee Kun-hee is to apologize in public. The May 6th apology was the second time he appeared in front of cameras for the sake of apology only since the 2015 MERS outbreak. While the media was highlighting his promise not to hand…