Choe Sang-Hun

3 days ago | nytimes.com | Choe Sang-Hun

Lee Jae-myung and Kim Moon-soo represent the opposite sides of a country polarized over former President Yoon Suk Yeol's use of martial law and his ouster. The two candidates who will fight it out to win election as South Korea's next president overcame great odds to get where they are. Lee Jae-myung was a teenage sweatshop worker whose family survived on rotten fruits. Kim Moon-soo was imprisoned and tortured for anti-government ​​activism.

1 week ago | myemail.constantcontact.com | Kim Seung-yeon |Lee Hae-in |Choe Sang-Hun |Nam Hyun-woo

Quotes of the Day:“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”– Ralph Waldo EmersonThere are two ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true."– Soren Kierkegaard"Not to be absolutely certain is one of the essential things in rationality." – Friedrich Nietzsche1. Libertarianism as Abolitionism: Liberty Breaks the Chains of Oppression2.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Choe Sang-Hun

South Korea's acting president, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, stepped down on Thursday, a sign that he plans to run to inhabit the role permanently in the June 3 presidential election. Mr. Han has indicated for weeks that he was mulling over whether to run for the June election, which was called after the impeachment and ouster of former President Yoon Suk Yeol, who had appointed Mr. Han as the No. 2 official in his administration.

2 weeks ago | thestar.com.my | Choe Sang-Hun

WHEN Yoon Suk-yeol was campaigning for the presidency, he scribbled the word “king” on his palm. South Koreans scoffed at it as some eccentric shamanistic ritual – a symbol, perhaps, of ambition taken a little too far.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Choe Sang-Hun

North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, ordered a monument for the "heroic" soldiers killed in Russia's war against Ukraine, as Moscow and Pyongyang make first comments on the joint operation. For months, Moscow and Pyongyang had been vague about the deployment of North Korean troops in Russia's war against Ukraine, even after Kyiv publicly paraded two North Korean soldiers its forces had captured.