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South Korea overturns the 60-year-old conviction of elderly woman who was jailed for biting an alleged attacker’s tongue

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A South Korean court has overturned the 60-year-old conviction of an elderly woman who was jailed as a teenager for biting the tongue of an alleged sexual assaulter, ending ...
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60 years ago, she bit the tongue of the man who allegedly tried to rape her. Now, she’s trying to overturn her conviction

Seoul (CNN) — “Women and dried pollock need to be beaten every three days for better taste” – so goes an old saying that was common in South Korea in the 1960s when Choi Mal-ja was growing up in a ...
Manila Standard

Marcos pushes APEC members to invest in women, youth

President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. called on Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies to invest more ...
The New York Times

36 Hours in Busan, South Korea

Hahna Yoon is a New York Times editor based in Seoul. She learned to love Busan from her husband, who lived there in the early years of their relationship. Chang W. Lee was born in Busan and lived ...
The New York Times

‘Open the Door, Open the Door!’: How Dozens Fled an Inferno on a Plane

A month after the deadliest aviation disaster on South Korean soil, a fire destroyed another passenger jet in the country. By John Yoon and Jin Yu Young Reporting from Seoul The fire spread quickly ...