South Korea
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Did Moon really said HK and Xinjiang issues are China’s internal affairs?
I didn’t expect much in President Moon’s summit with Xi Jinping in regard to the situation in Hong Kong and Xinjiang Uyghurs as I’ve seen what he said meeting Dutetre and Suu Kyi. Well, it turned out to be mind-blowing, in a bad way: The ROK side believes, both Hong Kong affairs and issues concerning…
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K-revolution: how Korean civil rights activism is now affecting another in Hong Kong (and China)
One of the numerous peculiar features in communist thoughts is the idea of ‘exporting’ revolutions to other countries. As if revolution itself is a kind of commodity. As we all have witnessed, it didn’t gone well in the end. There are handful of self-proclaimed communist governments while virtually none of them attained the state of…
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불법주차, 내 스마트폰으로 벌금까지 매긴다
실은 저희 집 앞에 위험하게 불법주차한 차량들을 응징하기 위해 시작했다가 의외로 꽤 괜찮은 뉴스 아이템이 될 수 있을 거 같아서 추진한 것입니다. 처음으로 BBC에 제가 편집하고 CG까지 입혀서 내보낸 아이템이라 제겐 특히 감회가 남다릅니다. 중간 중간에 제가 아이폰으로 촬영한 대목들도 있습니다. 맞춰보시길. https://www.bbc.com/korean/features-45611878
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Park Geun-hye: Poisoned chalice of South Korea’s presidency
For the sake of archiving: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43670570
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7 astonishing stories the double agent who met Kim Jong Il in person tells us
Released in Korean cinemas last week, The Spy Gone North shows something quite different from any previous Korean films which star intelligence operatives as protagonists. There is no Jason Borne style action at all and while critics like to call it le Carré, the characters are full of fervor . I didn’t like the way the…