On March 9, People Power Party candidate Yoon Seok-yeol beat the Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung with a historically low margin of 0.73 percent. With it, People Power Party ended the streak of...
On March 1, 1919, Korean nationalists took to the streets, leading a nationwide civil protest against Japanese occupation. 103 years later, the nation celebrates another anniversary of Samil-day, also...
On March 9, South Korea’s 20th presidential election will begin. The four front runners are currently Lee Jae-myung, Yoon Suk-yeol, Sim Sang-jung, and Ahn Cheol-soo. As of Feb. 22, Lee and Yoon take...
On Jan. 27, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Bryer announced his pending retirement in a White House announcement. On the same day, President Joe Biden promised to nominate a Black woman to fill the vacated...
Minjae Chun, Design & Production Editor
| Feb 7, 2022
As of Feb. 6th, a record-breaking additional 38,691 COVID-19 infection cases were confirmed in South Korea. The Omicron variant is sweeping the nation, with the cumulative infected cases surpassing one...
With the South Korean presidential election approaching, the presidential candidates from Korea’s two major parties are both mired in major scandals involving their families.
Lee Jae-myung, the nominee...
Joseph Chun, Design & Production Editor
| Jan 27, 2022
On Jan. 4, the Korean administrative court, accepting the proposal by civil groups to abolish the vaccine pass regulation, declared the temporary 30-day suspension of the regulation at study cafes and...
On Jan. 7, worrying news spread across the world as researchers from the University of Cyprus announced the discovery of a new COVID-19 genome— a combination of Delta and Omicron. This new recombinant...
On Jan. 7th, the South Korean Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters (CDSCH) announced its plans to alter the availability of official COVID-19 tests. This change was an inevitable response...
On Dec. 1, South Korea hit a new record in COVID-19 cases of 5,266 people, with five people confirmed to have contracted the omicron variant. 90% of all intensive care unit beds are currently occupied...
On Nov. 30, 15-year-old sophomore Ethan Crumbley fatally shot four students and injured at least eight others in a mass shooting at Oxford high school in Michigan. The suspect was charged as an adult with...
The verdict was finally announced: On Nov. 19, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted in the state of Wisconsin of all charges, including homicide. The jury’s decision ignited a heated debate that...
