Youmi Kim

Aug 26, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Mike Ives |Youmi Kim

CIVILIAN CONTROL ZONE, South Korea — Cho Seong-hoan’s father liked to say that the honeybees on his farm were lucky. Unlike typical South Koreans, they could cross into North Korea, as he had done before war divided the peninsula. “I also really envy them,” Cho, 59, said over the drone of bees on a searing summer morning at the family farm he took over when his father died in 2022.

Aug 25, 2024 | japantimes.co.jp | Mike Ives |Youmi Kim

Cho Seong-hoan’s father liked to say that the honeybees on his farm were lucky. Unlike typical South Koreans, they could cross into North Korea, as he had done before war divided the peninsula. "I also really envy them,” Cho, 59, said over the drone of bees on a searing summer morning at the family farm he took over when his father died in 2022.

Aug 25, 2024 | myemail-api.constantcontact.com | Michelle Ye Hee Lee |Mike Ives |Youmi Kim |Jo Jae-hee

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Aug 24, 2024 | nytimes.com | Mike Ives |Youmi Kim |Jun Michael Park

Cho Seong-hoan's father liked to say that the honeybees on his farm were lucky. Unlike typical South Koreans, they could cross into North Korea, as he had done before war divided the peninsula. "I also really envy them," Mr. Cho, 59, said over the drone of bees on a searing summer morning at the family farm he took over when his father died in 2022.