Kwon Pyong, the Chinese dissident, recounted for the first time the series of gambles that got him out of China by jet ski, and almost a year later, out of South Korea.
John Yoon
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Reporter at NYT in Seoul [email protected]
- Before the “Parasite” actor Lee Sun-kyun died, he had been questioned for drug use in a country that has long drawn a hard line against anything other than total abstinence.
- A year after the Seoul crowd crush, survivors and relatives of victims continue to wrestle with unanswered questions and grief as they push for official accountability, @choesanghun reports.
- South Korean teachers have rallied for months against a law they say has empowered some parents to harass them by threatening to file child abuse complaints against reasonable disciplinary action.
- A man was imprisoned in China after calling its leader “Xitler” in 2016. He is said to have fled to South Korea on a red jet ski last week in an escape he had planned for years.
