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Esther Kim

The Korea Times

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On abortion rights, internet freedom

TAIPEI — Ghost Island Media, a Taiwan podcast network, co-organized an event with ReproUncensored about abortion access and internet freedom,...

11.03.2025 10

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Esther Kim

Korea's other language, Jejueo

Fifteen years ago, UNESCO classified Jejueo, the language of Korea’s Jeju Island, as “critically endangered,” entering it into the Atlas of...

01.03.2025 5

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Esther Kim

Korea's other language, Jejueo

Fifteen years ago, UNESCO classified Jejueo, the language of Korea’s Jeju Island, as “critically endangered,” entering it into the Atlas of...

26.02.2025 20

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Esther Kim

Your unsolicited advice for 2025

From plane crashes to egg shortages, the bad news that streams ceaselessly into our private phones feels overwhelming. It’s logical to feel...

12.02.2025 20

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Esther Kim

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 5

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Esther Kim

Creating Pax Cultura during the US election

The morning after the election results, the front page of the satirical paper The Onion read, "America Defeats America … In a historic outcome that...

12.11.2024 2

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Esther Kim

A visit to the 'grass and tree house'

Esther Kim Just up the road from Dalnae Church, my uncle and aunt’s countryside church on a hill, live the travel writer and poet Pyo Seong-heum...

31.10.2024 4

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Esther Kim

A visit to the 'grass and tree house'

Esther Kim Just up the road from Dalnae Church, my uncle and aunt’s countryside church on a hill, live the travel writer and poet Pyo Seong-heum...

29.10.2024 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 3

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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. His...

06.08.2024 1

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Esther Kim