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East Asia
Hidden Cameras in South Korea
Tens of thousands of women gathered in Seoul last Saturday calling for a crackdown on spy cam pornography, in one of the country’s biggest ever female-only protests. Perpetrators film or photograph women with hidden cameras in public spaces. Although distributing pornography is illegal in South Korea, the videos and pictures…
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East Asia
South Korea-India cooperation
President Moon Jae-in urged efforts to expand bilateral cooperation between Korea and India, saying such cooperation will ensure not only a better future for the two countries but also peace and prosperity for the entire region. “The possibility of economic cooperation between South Korea and India is limitless. India not…
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East Asia
Sexual harassment against female soldiers
A South Korean Army division commander was dismissed Monday for allegedly sexually harassing female soldiers. He was serving as commander of a division on the outskirts of Seoul. Other personal information was withheld as he’s likely to be court-martialed. There are at least two other victims in the military in…
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East Asia
President Duterte’s Meritorious Retainer
On the 26th of December in the year 2016, President Duterte stepped into Shangri-L Hotel of Manila, Philippines. His purpose was to celebrate the 70th birthday of the Philippines’ leading journalist Ramon Tulfo, the face of “Isumbong Mo Kay Tulfo” (Talk to Tulfo). Walking calmly, President Duterte caught everyone’s attention…
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South Asia
Desert Women Snap up Dump Truck-Driving Jobs
Breaking the Social Barriers As Sindh province of Pakistan is expeditiously executing an ambitious project of coal mining and establishing a coal-fired power plant in the Thar Desert to resolve country’s energy crisis, a select group of women eyes a road out of poverty by snapping up dump truck-driving jobs…
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Column
Dear Mexican president-elect Lopez Obrador
Please remember Korean woman Hyun-jung Yang, who is unfairly detained in Santa Martha prison. Dear Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the Mexican people, may happiness and glory always be with you. I hope that Mexico will become one of the top countries in the world as well as in…
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East Asia
Climbing Baekdu Mountain
In 2018, because of the Inter-Korean Summit, the North American summit, and three rounds of North Korea-China summits, Northeast Asia is going through changes. Everything started under the North Korea’s Nuclear weapon’s issue. Many people ask themselves if everything is really happening. Since the beginning of the summer during the…
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World
The Ultimate Guide for Vocabulary Building “Word Power Made Easy”
Word Power Made Easy is a handbook for vocabulary building. However, the book does not make the readers to ‘memorize’ vocabulary. Instead, it helps the audience to ‘learn’ about vocabulary. In other words, it shows how to truly master the words. From Word Power Made Easy, the secret key to…
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East Asia
LGBTQ+ Identities
Inside a building in Mangwon, Seoul, I met with Kang Myeong-jin, Chief Organizer of the Seoul Queer Culture Festival. He explained to me details about the event and the current situation of the LGBT community in Korea. We talked about continuing issues and cultural taboos, touching on the long road…
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East Asia
Science and Medicine of New Paradigm
Science pursues truth. However, scientific quest for truth is confined in the frame of a paradigm. Gödel mathematically proved that for any system, there will always be statements that are true, but that are unprovable within the system. There always appear facts which cannot be explained by the current paradigm.…
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