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Home > Culture > Food & Travel dictionary Korea is seeing a boom in tourism, with more than 5.5 million tourists visiting the country from January to April this year, surpassing the previous record set in 2019.   It’s no longer just Seoul though, as Busan is now enjoying unprecedented levels of international tourism.   Last year, the southern port city welcomed 2.93 million foreign tourists — the highest figure since 2016, which saw a record 2.96 million visitors.

3 weeks ago | wamu.org | Dee Dwyer |Sarah Kim

When Beverly Smith was growing up in Southeast D.C., she says the house was always full of children. It wasn’t just her eight siblings. “I can remember as a child waking up, and there’d be somebody’s child at the foot of my bed,” she recalls. Her mother, Mary Grace Smith, took care of all of them. When Beverly Smith had friends over, her mother would make sure they had dinner too. “She always fed the community,” Smith says.

2 months ago | wamu.org | Sarah Kim

Of the hundreds of thousands of D.C. area Catholics mourning Pope Francis, many are immigrants. Evelio Menjivar, auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Washington, said they feel he knew something of their plight. The pope – born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Argentina – was the son of immigrants. His family had fled Italy to escape the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini. Menjivar said immigrants felt “supported and encouraged” by him.

2 months ago | wamu.org | Sarah Kim

76-year old Stanley Greene has lived in his house nearly all his life. The house was built in 1940. “Conceived, born, and raised right here,” he says. Behind him is the room where his mother died. But older houses need upkeep. Aging buildings – which make up most market-rate affordable housing in Northern Virginia – are more prone to issues like mold, pests, and other hazards to safety and health, and seniors can’t always do the work themselves to address those hazards.

2 months ago | wamu.org | Dee Dwyer |Sarah Kim

For two months and counting, the people of Ward 8 have had no councilmember. They’d already made their choice in November. Trayon White, who was arrested in August by the FBI for allegedly accepting bribes and kickbacks worth $156,000, won nearly 84% of the vote. White had represented them for eight years. What he’d done for their community during those eight years, many felt, could not be erased by the charges he faced.