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Remembering 'Grandma Lee,' who defended Glendale’s monument to 'comfort women'
“She said the war ended in 1945 but the war did not end for us,” said Phyllis Kim, who leads the L.A.-based Comfort Women ...
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(LEAD) Choi Jung-wha becomes 1st Korean woman to receive Officier rank in France's highest order of merit
Choi Jung-wha, professor emeritus at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) and president of the Corea Image ...
South Korean university moves to retroactively revoke ex-first lady’s degree over plagiarism
Sookmyung Women's University in January concluded that Kim Keon-hee's master's thesis involved plagiarism Sookmyung Women's University has begun the process of revising its academic regulations to ...
She escaped an avalanche and became the first woman to summit Everest. Today, few remember her name
Japanese climber Junko Tabei was part of an-woman team climbing Mount Everest. Despite almost being crushed in an avalanche, ...
South Korean presidential frontrunner Lee Jae-myung's policy pledges
South Korea's Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung is the frontrunner for the June 3 snap presidential election, vowing ...
Key promises by South Korea's conservative presidential candidate Kim Moon-soo
Seeking to build momentum in his campaign to win South Korea's presidency, former labour minister and conservative candidate ...
Presidential Candidates Vow to Heal a Divided South Korea. They Are Poles Apart.
Lee Jae-myung and Kim Moon-soo represent the opposite sides of a country polarized over former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s use ...
South Korean conservative party fails in a bid to switch presidential candidates
South Korea’s embattled conservative party has canceled then reinstated the presidential candidacy of Kim Moon Soo within hours, after a failed attempt to replace him with former Prime Minister Han Du ...