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All posts tagged "New York Times"

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  [NYT] Greta Lee On Hollywood Stereotypes and Playing the ‘Lovable Weirdo’

  — Greta Lee is a familiar face to fans of “Girls,” where she played an entitled gallerist; “High Maintenance,” where she was Heidi; and “Inside Amy Schumer,” a gig Ms. Lee landed after...

  • Posted December 22, 2015
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  S. Korean gov’t draws criticism for pressuring foreign press

  By Yi Whan-woo South Korea’s government is drawing international concern for allegedly putting pressure on foreign journalists who have published articles that are critical of President Park Geun-hye and her style of governance. The Ministry of Foreign...

  • Posted December 7, 2015
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  [NY Times] Korean County achieves its goal: Less birth control, more babies

    HAENAM, South Korea — Back in the 1970s and ’80s, when the South Korean government was focused on alleviating poverty, Kim Chung-jae and other health officials toured villages to persuade couples to practice...

  • Posted December 1, 2015
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  [NYT Op-ed] South Korea targets dissent

    South Koreans can be as proud of their country’s emergence from dictatorship into a vibrant democracy as they are of the rags-to-riches development that made their country a global industrial powerhouse. So it...

  • Posted November 20, 2015
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  [NY Times] Why are Asian Americans such loyal Democrats?

    In just two decades, Asian American support for the Democratic presidential candidate more than doubled, from the 31 percent Bill Clinton got in 1992 to the 73 percent cast for President Obama in...

  • Posted November 4, 2015
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  [NY Times] Bat flipping draws shrugs in S. Korea, scorn in America

  DAEGU, South Korea — Hwang Jae-gyun, a third baseman for the Lotte Giants in South Korea’s top baseball league, received some curious text messages from his American teammates one morning in July. His name,...

  • Posted September 2, 2015
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  [NYT] Soju for the Soul

  – I took the news badly when my friend Jiwon said she was leaving New York and moving to Seoul. She was a beloved drinking and dining companion, a doting cat sitter and the...

  • Posted June 11, 2015
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