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Cockpit Confucian: Why the racial mudslinging in the Asiana tragedy?

SEOUL, South Korea — It started out as an airline tragedy. Then it grew into a racially charged row. On Monday, Asiana Airlines announced it will sue a San Francisco television broadcaster for defamation — after a news anchor unknowingly read a distasteful ethnic joke on air, thinking it was a major scoop.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Jul 16, 2013

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Japan’s ‘Abenomics’ — sugar high or national revival?

KYOTO, Japan — Natsuki Ohshima, 24, has found a gem. Straight out of college, he has scored a professional job as a corporate recruiter. His generation, born in the 1980s, has grown up in the midst of economic stagnation lasting two decades. So even he admits that landing a corporate job at such a young age is unusual.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Jul 12, 2013

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Prop Art: The best of weird North Korean art

SEOUL, South Korea — On Tuesday, a Chinese artist made headlines when he offered North Korea its very own wax figure of the deceased dictator, Kim Jong Il It’s a nod to the hermit state’s ruling family. The Dear Leader, as he’s called, is the father of the current head, Kim Jong Un.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Jul 11, 2013

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China’s love affair with South Korea

SEOUL — There’s no question that China and South Korea are uneasy neighbors. Over the years, relations have been tense over issues like North Korea’s nuclear program, and illegal Chinese fishing in South Korean waters, to name a few.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Jun 28, 2013

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Red threat: Kim Jong Un makes the Koreas’ best beer

SEOUL, South Korea — If there’s one key art form where North Korea beats the South, it’s beer-making. Pyongyang is home to Taedonggang, a government-made, full-bodied lager that The New York Times called one of the finest beers on the Korean peninsula. The beverage is named after Pyongyang’s Taedong River.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Jun 27, 2013

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Telling Kim Jong Un’s ‘secrets’

SEOUL, South Korea — If North Korea’s government had its way, the world would know nothing about what really happens within the country’s borders. Journalism is essentially forbidden. Those who dare ask hard questions do so at the risk of torture and imprisonment.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Jun 21, 2013

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Spread the curd

In a workshop a few minutes away from the sprawl of downtown Kyoto, a young man walks up and down aisles of steaming vats filled with a soya milk mixture.

By Geoffrey Cain
South China Morning Post

Jun 21, 2013

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