SEOUL, South Korea — Every year an untold number of dogs, raised in cramped and inhumane commercial breeding grounds known as “puppy mills,” make their way from South Korea and elsewhere into your local kennel for re-sale at premium prices, a GlobalPost investigation revealed in June.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Sep 2, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — For more than a year, the world has watched the bold economic experiment known as Abenomics, once exalted as the saving grace for two decades of economic torpor in Japan.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Aug 22, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — It’ll smack you in the face the instant you walk into any decent Korean restaurant: the pungent smell of kimchi — the piquant pickled cabbage whose bold tanginess is increasingly exalted by Western foodies.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Aug 18, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — North and South Korea have been divided for more than six decades, but on Monday Pope Francis moved his followers with a final prayer during Mass: It’s time to find a path to peace on the Korean peninsula, and to reject the “mindset of confrontation and suspicion” that plagues both sides.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Aug 18, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — The muscular and imposing Antonio Inoki stands among Japan’s most revered former wrestlers, a WWE hall of famer who has settled into retirement as a member of the Japanese parliament.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Aug 12, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — Menacing battalions of police, wearing neon yellow uniforms and carrying anti-riot shields, regularly march through the South Korean capital, at times showing up en masse to small and harmless protests.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Aug 5, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — The citizens of this hyper-competitive East Asian nation are the most cosmetically enhanced people in the world, going under the knife more per capita than Americans, Italians, Greeks and Brazilians.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Jul 27, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi, who goes by the alias “Good For Nothing Child,” finds herself in an unusual bind in a country known for its blunt eroticism: fighting obscenity charges for a crowd-sourcing effort to build a kayak modeled after her own vagina.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Jul 24, 2014
TOKYO, Japan — Few outsiders will ever get to witness Japan’s surreal state within a state, a network of businesses and schools that have sworn allegiance to North Korea.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Jul 10, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — This sprawling East Asian capital is renowned for its epic commutes, hard-charging work force and money-making ethos. But Seoul’s beloved mayor, Park Won-soon, is determined to soften the city’s aesthetic and transform it into a greener, cooler, more creative and livable place.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Jul 8, 2014
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