Jin Young

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Ali Watkins |Jin Young |Ian Austen

A driver plowed into a group of partygoers attending a Filipino street festival on Saturday evening in Vancouver, British Columbia, killing at least nine people, according to authorities. Vancouver police said earlier that they were investigating a “mass casualty incident” at a neighborhood block party. Police said they had taken “a lone suspect” into custody at the scene: the driver, a 30-year-old Vancouver man.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Choe Sang-Hun |John Yoon |Yan Zhuang |Jin Young

"South Korea has managed to avoid the worst outcomes and can see light at the end of a long political crisis," Leif-Eric Easley, a professor of international studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, said about Friday's ruling.

1 month ago | cnas.org | Jin Young |Choe Sang-Hun |John Yoon |Yan Zhuang

South Korea’s top court ended months of political turmoil when it unanimously decided to remove the impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday, clearing the way for the country to elect a new leader. But the political crisis that Mr. Yoon triggered with his misjudged declaration of martial law in December — and his ensuing impeachment by the National Assembly — exposed a deep fissure in South Korea’s polarized politics that may prove harder to heal.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Jin Young |Choe Sang-Hun

1 hour agoSouth Korea: Shell-shocked South Korean evacuees lament loss of homes in deadly wildfiresStoryline: Residents at a temporary shelter in South Korea are coming to terms with the shock of losing their homes in the worst wildfires in the country's history, with the deadly blazes which have been burning since late last month forcing tens of thousands of people to be evacuated.

2 months ago | sanjuandailystar.com | Jin Young |Yan Zhuang

By Jin Yu Young and Yan ZhuangFour workers were killed, and six others were injured when part of a highway bridge under construction collapsed in South Korea on Tuesday morning, officials said. By the afternoon, all 10 workers who were at the site were accounted for, South Korea’s National Fire Agency said, after emergency crews had searched through the rubble for victims. The collapse happened about 9:50 a.m. local time near the city of Cheonan, about 50 miles south of Seoul, the capital.