Korea items from sources like NPR

In South Korea, Nation Stops For Mega Exam

More than 650,000 high school seniors in South Korea on Thursday took the only national college placement exam that many believe will determine the rest of their lives. The government takes it so seriously that even those infected with the H1N1 virus took the exam under medical supervision. [Nat'l Public Radio 12 Nov 2009 story]

South Korean parents pray for high scores at Jogyesa, the largest Buddhist temple in Seoul.

Saturday, July 5, 2008

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Greetings from Seoul! PRI's The WorldIn Korean, it's called something like, "saengbuhsut bulgogi jeongol." Unfortunately, I don't speak Korean and that may not be the exact proper ...www.theworld.org/?q=node/14545

Korean abstract art (4:45) PRI's The WorldAnchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Park Seo-Bo, the artist known as "the father of Korean abstract painting." The 77 year-old artist currently has his first ...www.theworld.org/?q=node/18381

Asian Advocates PRI's The WorldBruce and Ju-Chan Fulton are determined to make contemporary Korean literature ... Bruce Fulton: It suggests to us that the compartmentalization of Korean ...www.theworld.org/?q=node/18689

World Books PRI's The WorldThe fantastical visions of Korean writer Ch’oe Yun explore how social traumas ... I’m down in New York for PEN American’s annual Festival of International ...www.theworld.org/node/17375

Inevitable Dissident PRI's The WorldThe fantastical visions of Korean writer Ch’oe Yun explore how social traumas shape ... 2000 South Koreans were killed for protesting the military rule of ...www.theworld.org/?q=node/18651

Korean refugees - part I: escape from the North PRI's The WorldFeb 25, 2008 ... Tens of thousands of North Koreans have fled their native country in recent years. The lucky ones eventually make it to South Korea. ...www.theworld.org/?q=node/16230

Korean refugees - part II: settling in the South PRI's The WorldFeb 26, 2008 ... She traveled to northeastern China, near the border, and profiled several North Korean refugees there. As she explained in an interview with ...www.theworld.org/?q=node/16271

Korean refugees - part III: coming to America PRI's The WorldFeb 27, 2008 ... Much of what we know about the day-to-day reality of North Koreans' struggle to survive comes from the stories told by those who succeed in ...www.theworld.org/?q=node/16303

South Korean flight attendants (4:30) PRI's The WorldApr 7, 2008 ... Jason Strother reports on why so many South Korean women still find it glamorous to be a flight attendant. ...www.theworld.org/?q=node/17157

South Korean urban legend (3:15) PRI's The WorldSouth Korean urban legend (3:15) August 29, 2007 permalink email . Urban legends are those hard to pin down stories that pass for fact until they ...www.theworld.org/?q=node/12342

Visit to a fish market in Seoul PRI's The World(in Korean) Ok, let's go eat." People in the seafood business in Korea are still reeling from an ... San nakji is the Korean name for live baby octopus. ...www.theworld.org/?q=node/15183

Kim Chul-woong PRI's The WorldLike most North Koreans who try to escape, Kim travelled to the border with China. ... Kim also works at a North Korean human rights association and teaches ...www.theworld.org/?q=node/11092

PRI's The World International news from your public radio stationJan 8, 2008 ... South Koreans eat a lot of fish caught in the Yellow Sea. A large oil spill affected ... San nakji is the Korean name for live baby octopus. ...www.theworld.org/?q=taxonomy_by_date/1/20080108

Part 2: Hiroshima's Survivors PRI's The WorldOver the years, most of Hiroshima's Koreans went back home. ... And in that time, most of Hiroshima's estimated 20-thousand Korean survivors have died.many ...www.theworld.org/?q=node/3993

news aggregator PRI's The WorldApr 18, 2008 ... I’m Korean. As Korean, I just want to say about the big problem in ... Actually, at that time I thought that Koreans would must do some ...www.theworld.org/?q=aggregator&page=6

Technology Podcast Archive PRI's The WorldWTP Special Podcast: Technology, Poongsoo, and the South Korean Elections ... A special tech podcast on the South Korean elections, which take place on ...www.theworld.org/?q=taxonomy/term/6&page=2

Immigration Coverage: PRI's The World PRI's The WorldThousands of Korean babies have been adopted by American families in the past 50 years. Jason Strother reports from Seoul about a small number of those ...www.theworld.org/?q=taxonomy/term/114&page=4

Immigration Coverage: PRI's The World PRI's The WorldA young Korean studying at Princeton thinks he knows why. Rudy Lee made a film about the clash between traditional Asian values and American corporate ...www.theworld.org/?q=taxonomy/term/114&page=3

Jang Sa-ik PRI's The WorldJang Sa-ik didn't start his musical career in a boy band and he was never a teenage heartthrob like many other Korean pop stars. In fact he didn't release ...www.theworld.org/?q=node/10418

PRI's The World: Special PodcastsIn the last part of our series on China's growing influence in Asia, The World's Mary Kay Magistad reports from the South Korean capital. ...www.theworld.org/rss/sp.xml

PRI's The World International news from your public radio stationApr 25, 2008 ... Human rights activists in Seoul want to use the event to focus attention on China's forced repatriation of North Korean refugees. ...www.theworld.org/?q=taxonomy_by_date/1/20080425

PRI's The World International news from your public radio stationFeb 12, 2008 ... South Korean landmark destroyed (2:30) February 12, 2008 permalink email . Reporter Kevin Kim has details on the destruction of one of ...www.theworld.org/?q=taxonomy_by_date/1/20080212

Olympic champion from Korea PRI's The WorldThe 26-mile race was won by Korean, Song Ke Chung but because Japan was occupying Korea at the time, he was forced to run as a member of the Japenese team. ...www.theworld.org/?q=node/16816

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= via PEN Club (pen.org, 4/2006)
4/27/06: Mixed Media: Writers on Their Languages.Writers are in the service of language itself and the specific language of their work. Writers in Basque, Korean, Hebrew, Russian, English, and Serbo-Croatian pay tribute to what is unique and specific about working in each language. --Hwang Sok-Yong, http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/BenettonTalk/mixed_media/05%2005%2005%2005_mixed_media_sok_yong.mp3

4/29/06: Hwang Sok Yong & Ko Un. Readings and conversation with two of the leading Korean writers of the postwar period, novelist Hwang Sok-Yong and poet Ko Un. Moderated by Janet Poole.http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/Hwang_Ko.mp3 [1:06]