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South Koreans blame themselves for ferry tragedy
With nearly 300 missing, Koreans indulge a culture of shame.
Geoffrey Cain
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Kim Yuna and the Korean art of suffering
How Kim Yuna’s Olympic loss weighs on the heart of a nation.
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South Korea: It’s a nice day for a shady wedding
Weddings here are so grandiose, they sometimes bankrupt couples. Other times, they’re used to launder bribes.
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Incarceration in North Korea: 5 Americans who got out
As Kenneth Bae pleads for release, here’s how five Americans won freedom from the Kim clan’s wardens — including one who founded a university in Pyongyang.
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Treating garment workers in Cambodia as terrorists
Exclusive: Why South Korea shares blame for violence against strikers who stitch your clothes.
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South Korea urged Cambodia’s military to crack down on protesters
As workers who stitch for Western brands demand a livable wage, South Korea urged Cambodian forces to protect corporate interests.
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Unable to afford Gangnam-style plastic surgery, Korean teens deploy DIY methods
South Korea is plastic-surgery obsessed. The results aren’t always pretty.
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How the Iran nuclear deal matters for North Korea
South Koreans react to whether their nuclear-armed neighbor will ever follow suit.
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Why did North Korea detain an American veteran?
The detention of 85-year-old Merrill Newman is perplexing and opaque, even by North Korean standards.
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Kim Jong Un and the birth of a personality cult
The North Korean leader’s numerous laurels include basketball star, fashion icon and honorary Nigerian.
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Will Asia’s economies benefit from fracking?
The US economy has received a major boost from the controversial drilling technology. China may (or may not) be next.
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Kim Jong who? Meet the cabal that really runs North Korea
Legend aside, the boy despot doesn’t do everything himself. Here’s the power pantheon he shares power with.
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North Korea’s food conundrum
Many North Koreans are undernourished, the United Nations says. Can the beginnings of a so-called agricultural reform put food in their mouths?
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How China chokes its neighbors
Asia’s latest diplomatic flashpoint? Air pollution.
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North Korea sees surge of drug-resistant tuberculosis
Drug-resistant TB is the latest health crisis to strike North Korea, where medical progress has suffered under Western sanctions.
