The election is a giant undertaking that requires millions of poll workers, voting machines and security forces to cover deserts, mountains, forests and megacities.
Why Does It Take India Six Weeks to Vote? nytimes.com/2024/04/17/wor… With John Yoon

The K-pop group NewJeans has asked a federal court in California to order Google to release the identity of the person behind a YouTube account that the members say is spreading defamatory statements about them. nytimes.com/2024/04/10/art…

Before the “Parasite” actor Lee Sun-kyun died, he had been questioned for drug use in a country that has long drawn a hard line against anything other than total abstinence. nytimes.com/2023/12/28/wor…

Lee Sun-kyun, a South Korean actor who starred in the Oscar-winning film “Parasite,” died at 48. He had been under investigation for illegal drug use and denied the accusation. nyti.ms/3TGI93O

How a North Korean Soccer Star Vanished and Re-emerged @NYTimes by the great duo of ⁦Mike Ives⁩ ⁦John Yoon⁩ nytimes.com/2023/11/23/wor…

A year after the Seoul crowd crush, survivors and relatives of victims continue to wrestle with unanswered questions and grief as they push for official accountability, Choe Sang-Hun 최상훈 reports. nytimes.com/2023/10/27/wor…

People older than 65 ride Seoul’s subway system for free. Throngs of seniors spend their days riding the trains to the end of the line, or to nowhere in particular, and have become an established part of the city’s fabric.
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South Korea has the world’s largest diaspora of intercountry adoptees. Now some of them are returning to the country — which has the lowest birth rate globally — to hold the government accountable for what they call a corrupt and predatory adoption system. nyti.ms/44V6kgz

During the Korean War, the United States and Russia flooded the Korean Peninsula with arms. Now it’s the other way around, as both powers seek munitions for the war in Ukraine. nyti.ms/3sTkLVe

South Korean teachers have rallied for months against a law they say has empowered some parents to harass them by threatening to file child abuse complaints against reasonable disciplinary action. nytimes.com/2023/09/05/wor…

Where in the world are people continuing to WFH, and where are people are back in the office? A look at the latest data:

nytimes.com/2023/09/04/bus… w/ Emma Goldberg John Yoon Hikari Hida & Melissa Eddy in New York, Seoul, London, Tokyo & Berlin

Experts say Japan’s discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the ruined Fukushima nuclear power plant does not and will not pose health risks to people who eat seafood. Even though the scientific evidence bears that out, not everyone is convinced. nyti.ms/3OOFAso

Here's my attempt at trying to make sense of all that has happened in Thailand in the past three months: nytimes.com/2023/08/24/wor…

A man was imprisoned in China after calling its leader “Xitler” in 2016. He is said to have fled to South Korea on a red jet ski last week in an escape he had planned for years. nytimes.com/2023/08/24/wor…

Japan just began releasing the first 7,800 tons of treated wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi plant on Thursday nytimes.com/2023/08/24/wor…

A growing number of unmarried Chinese women are buying property — a trend that goes against one of China’s most deeply rooted gender norms.

“I want to prove to everyone that women are not limited to the only option of marriage,” one single homeowner said.
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Typhoon Khanun made landfall in South Korea. After pummeling southern Japan, killing two people, the storm is expected to move slowly across the Korean Peninsula, bringing heavy rain and wind. nyti.ms/45oiajY

'In the past decade or so, restaurateurs, writers and scholars have started to promote the concept of Taiwanese cuisine,' Li Yuan袁莉 writes. 'They are articulating and shaping a culinary culture that's distinct from that of China.' nyti.ms/45e7qW1

The discussion about women’s empowerment that Barbie has set off is in some ways a rare bright spot for Chinese feminists. nyti.ms/45hFXlD

South Korean cities are hosting blind-dating events, desperate to prod people onto a track for marriage and family. And participants have given the events rave reviews. Is the government being too intrusive in personal reproductive choices? nytimes.com/2023/08/07/wor…