Korea Joongang Daily on MSN5d
One crew member presumed dead, four missing after fishing boat capsizes off Jeju Island
Search efforts were underway Thursday to locate five missing crew members after a 32-ton fishing boat capsized off the coast ...
Harper's Magazine2d
Women divers
From an interview conducted by Youngmi Mayer with Jung Won Oh, Ko Jun Ja, and Mun Yeon Ok, female divers on Korea’s Jeju Island, published in Lucky Peach: The Gender… ...
Gil Won-ok, Crusading Victim of Wartime Sex Slavery, Dies at 96
She led a tireless campaign for a formal apology and reparations from Japan for what it did to thousands of women like her — ...
Swimming World8h
Nevada Diving Coach Jian Li You Announces Retirement
Nevada diving coach Jian Li You announced her retirement, effective at the end of the season. She’s led the Wolf Pack divers ...
scmp.com4d
South Korean woman punished for biting off tongue of would-be rapist gets retrial
A South Korean woman, 78, who in 1965 received a suspended jail sentence for biting off part of the tongue of a man attempting to rape her will have her case re-examined. A Busan court on Thursday ...
ABC News6d
Five are missing after a fishing boat capsizes off a South Korean island
Officials say five people are missing after a fishing boat capsized off South Korea’s Jeju island on Wednesday SEOUL, South Korea -- Five people are missing after a fishing boat capsized off South ...
The Korea Herald6d
Fishing boat capsizes off coast of Jeju Island; 5 among 10-person crew rescued
A fishing boat capsized off the coast of Jeju Island on Wednesday ... (Yonhap) Over 40% of strategists, others project S. Korea will have nukes within 10 yrs: survey More than 40 percent of ...
The Straits Times5d
South Korean woman punished for biting off tongue of attempted rapist to get retrial 60 years later
In pursuing her education, Ms Choi said she realised the extent of the injustice she suffered, which motivated her to fight to reopen her case with assistance from Korea Woman’s Hotline ...
Hindustan Times2d
Convicted South Korean woman who bit off attacker's tongue in 1964 granted retrial after 60 years
A South Korean woman, convicted nearly 60 years ago for defending herself during an attempted rape, will have her case reviewed after a Supreme Court order. Nearly 60 years after being convicted ...
NHK2d
Father of Japanese woman abducted by North Korea dies before reunion
The father of a Japanese woman abducted by North Korean agents decades ago has died. Arimoto Akihiro was 96 years old. Only one of the parents of a dozen Japanese abductees who remain unaccounted ...
The Korea Times2d
'Comfort woman,' activist Gil Won-ok dies at 97
She was 97. Gil was 13 years old when she was taken from her home in Pyongyang, now the capital of North Korea, to work as a "comfort woman," a euphemism for sex slaves. "Gil Won-ok campaigned ...
USA Today5d
Arizona woman pleads guilty to scheme that generated $17M for North Korea
PHOENIX — An Arizona woman pleaded guilty to defrauding U.S ... generating more than $17 million in revenue for herself and North Korea, federal prosecutors said. Christina Marie Chapman ...