Max Kim

1 month ago | latimes.com | Max Kim

Several times a week, Washington-based immigration attorney Chun Jong-Joon gets a phone call from yet another flabbergasted . All have made the same discovery: They or their U.S.-born children hold South Korean citizenship and cannot give it up. He explains the reason: an amendment made to South Korean citizenship law two decades ago. By the time they call Chun, they are in the grip of the law’s many real-life implications.

2 months ago | thederrick.com | Max Kim |Maria Petrakis

MARYSVILLE, Australia — As fire raged several hillsides away from their house on the afternoon of Feb. 7, 2009, David Barton reassured his wife: “Don’t worry. Entire towns don’t burn down.”By that evening, as he watched a 150-foot-high wall of flames closing in, it was clear he had been very wrong. Thank you for reading! Please log in, or sign up for a new account and purchase a subscription to continue reading.

2 months ago | gazette.com | Max Kim |Maria Petrakis

MARYSVILLE, Australia — As fire raged several hillsides away from their house on the afternoon of Feb. 7, 2009, David Barton reassured his wife: “Don’t worry. Entire towns don’t burn down.”By that evening, as he watched a 150-foot-high wall of flames closing in, it was clear he had been very wrong. “Everything so very quickly turned so very ugly,” he recalled.

2 months ago | latimes.com | Max Kim |Maria Petrakis

As fire raged several hillsides away from their house on the afternoon of Feb. 7, 2009, David Barton reassured his wife: “Don’t worry. Entire towns don’t burn down.”By that evening, as he watched a 150-foot-high wall of flames closing in, it was clear he had been very wrong. “Everything so very quickly turned so very ugly,” he recalled. Weeks of record heat had baked the region to a crisp, and the fire, sparked by a downed power line, had spread in the 80-mph winds before sharply veering into town.

2 months ago | mahoningmatters.com | Max Kim

SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Hyeong-bae, a South Korean linguist, had a problem: how to translate the word "deepfake" into Korean. A senior researcher at the National Institute of Korean Language, a government regulator, Kim works in the public language department. His job is to sift through the many foreign words that clutter everyday speech and bring them to the committee - called the "new language group" - to be translated into Korean.