SEOUL, South Korea — Get ready. North Korea’s fourth nuclear test may be upon us. There’s been an uptick in activity at the underground test site at Punggye-ri, in the garrison kingdom’s desolate and remote northeast, Yonhap reports.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Apr 21, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea ― Wednesday’s ferry sinking off Korea’s west coast is being called one of the country’s worst peacetime disasters in modern times. Although 14 are confirmed dead, close to 300 are still missing in the frigid waters. Hopes are dwindling of finding more survivors.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Apr 17, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — The scene on the Seoul subway these days resembles any other modern underground network: throngs of high school students and commuter droids, hunched over, aloof to their surroundings, unable to stop playing with their handheld thingies.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Apr 14, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — Even by the standards of pop stars, Hatsune Miku is eccentric and protean, her mystique elusive. Her eyes are too round and blue to be real. She can be buxom or boyish, and almost painfully sultry — all in a droid-ish, understated way.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Apr 10, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — So, you think your husband is a domestic sloth, failing to pull his weight in household duties? Take comfort from South Korean wives, who have it worse.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Apr 4, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — Every few months, North Korea tests short-range rockets, hurling them into the sea with hardly a glance from the rest of the world. The frequency of those launches, however, has increased dramatically in the past month. On Saturday alone, Kim Jong Un’s military fired off 30, as if they were bottle rockets.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Mar 26, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — The headlines are regular and morbid: a shamed celebrity or politician takes her own life, a student leaps off a bridge after being rejected from a first-class university, and an ailing grandfather commits suicide to relieve the financial burden on the family.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Mar 13, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea opened its much-hyped Masik Pass ski area this winter.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Mar 12, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — On Sunday, the North Korean Generalissimo Kim Jong Un did what any leader who is an unwavering advocate of democracy and the rule of law should do: He held elections.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Mar 10, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — War is all about vicious cycles. Consider drone strikes. They target alleged bad guys, but they also inspire others to take up arms, and help extremists recruit. The remedy exacerbates the problem.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Mar 9, 2014
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