Just about every corner watering hole whips up dazzling barbecues, stews and pickled vegetables. It’s spicy, and that’s a good thing.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Mar 10, 2015
SEOUL, South Korea — For more than 60 years, North and South Korea have been divided along the demilitarized zone, or the DMZ. Barriers — political, legal and physical — often prevent South Koreans from communicating directly with their northern brethren.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Oct 19, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — When North and South Korea hold talks in Seoul on Wednesday and Thursday, top of the agenda is whether to reopen the suspended Kaesong Industrial Complex.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Jun 11, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — In the classic Korean mystery film JSA: Joint Security Area (2000), a South Korean soldier strays north of the demilitarized zone at the border between North and South Korea and unexpectedly befriends a handful of North Korean enemies.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
May 3, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — Now that North Korea has recalled its workers from the Kaesong Industrial Zone — an area north of the DMZ where hundreds of South Korean managers oversee 51,000 North Korean laborers — it’s farewell to hope for a peaceful unification, at least for now.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Apr 8, 2013
DONGDUCHEON, South Korea — Amid the cacophony of North Korean war threats, the streets are uneventful outside Camp Casey, an often-buzzing American military base about 20 miles south of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) near the North Korean border.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Apr 6, 2013
I’m now in Yangju, a mostly rural town about a 30 minute’s drive south of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) near the North Korea border.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Apr 5, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea – More bluster today: the wire services are reporting that North Korea, for now, isn’t allowing South Korean businesspeople to enter the Kaesong industrial zone. That’s the special administrative area north of the border where several hundred South Korean managers supervise some 50,000 North Korean laborers, who make garments and handbags.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Apr 3, 2013
PAJU, South Korea — Lee Eunsook’s artwork glows in the quiet border village of Imjingak as the sun sets over the DMZ, the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea. A line of neon-threaded pillars in front of the village’s barbed-wire fence, her installation lists the names of a handful of families separated during the Korean War of 1950 to 1953.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Mar 12, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — It’s been a mixed week for North Korea. The country reportedly moved mid-range Musudan missiles away from a launch site at the east coast, a possible sign that leaders won’t test a rocket as feared. But the Supreme Court also sentenced Korean-American Kenneth Bae, who NK News says was an undercover missionary, to 15 years of hard labor.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Mar 7, 2013
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