David Lee
Reporter at Freelance
Freelance reporter in Seoul🇰🇷 @SCMPNews, @AJEnglish, @NikkeiAsia, @Billboard, others. DM or 📧[email protected]
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4 days ago |
aljazeera.com | David Lee
Seoul, South Korea - After six hours of emergency martial law, hundreds of days of protests, violence at a Seoul court and the eventual impeachment of President Yoon Suk-yeol, South Korea is now hours away from choosing a new leader in the hope of restoring stability to an unsettled nation. From 6am to 8pm on Tuesday (21:00 to 11:00 GMT), South Koreans will vote for one of five presidential candidates in a race led largely by the opposition Democratic Party's Lee Jae-myung.
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4 days ago |
aljazeera.com | Lyndal Rowlands |David Lee
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1 week ago |
aljazeera.com | David Lee
Sejong, South Korea - By the standards of South Korea's teeming metropolises, Sejong is not much of a city. With a population of 400,000 people, Sejong, a planned city located about 100km (62 miles) south of Seoul, does not even crack the top 20 urban centres. Recommended Stories But if South Korea's likely next president has his way, Sejong could soon become the country's "de facto" capital.
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1 month ago |
scmp.com | David Lee
NewJeans’ abrupt disappearance from the K-pop spotlight has shaken South Korea’s multibillion-dollar music industry – not just because of the group’s meteoric rise and global reach, but for what the saga reveals about increasingly blurred lines of power and the fragile nature of artist-label relations in the world’s most systematised pop machine.
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2 months ago |
scmp.com | David Lee
In one of Seoul’s wealthiest districts, four-year-olds are being drilled to write five-paragraph English essays in 15 minutes. These gruelling tests, designed for admission into exclusive English-language kindergartens, are the latest front in South Korea’s relentless education arms race – one that critics warn is exacerbating inequality and robbing children of their emotional well-being.
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I met with family and friends of Jeju Air victims. The site at Muan airport on Monday was like a Korean funeral where people gather friends to accompany those who have faced great losses. Families still waiting to reunite with loved ones one last time. https://t.co/Ra2zj4ugWD
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