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Esther Kim

The Korea Times

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Save the third places: The dance hall

Five days before Christmas, my sister and I went out dancing. Photo City, a local Rochester dance hall, advertised a Taylor Swift-themed dance party...

15.01.2025 10

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Esther Kim

Yoon's martial law resurrects Gwangju's spirit

On the evening of Dec. 3, President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law to the nation's shock. “Are we reliving the '80s again?” asked...

11.12.2024 4

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Esther Kim

An innocent man, Iwao Hakamada

His given name, Iwao, means stone in Japanese. Japan's police meant to break him, an innocent man. After 48 years in prison, facing the gallows, 30...

07.10.2024 1

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Esther Kim

This is how you make babies

In the face of a dying planet and economic challenges, we millennials are weighing our fertility options and making big choices. Over catch-up...

19.09.2024 2

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Esther Kim

Unequal jetsetter

My love for travel earned me the nickname "Jjampong" from my mom, a bright hodgepodge of cultural influences like the Korean Chinese spicy seafood...

03.09.2024 3

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Esther Kim

Boredom is the mother of creativity

“Death is the mother of beauty,” the American poet Wallace Stevens writes in “Sunday Morning,” his lengthy, philosophical poem about paradise....

06.08.2024 1

The Korea Times

Esther Kim