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Some states in the US still allow teachers to use corporal punishment to discipline unruly students. But in South Korea, direct physical punishment was banned in all schools last month. And now teachers and students there are mixed over what alternative should take its place. From Seoul, reporter Jason Strother has the story. Download MP3
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South Korea and Japan have strained relations over their shared history but many Koreans are putting that aside to lend Japan a hand after the quake and tsunami. Jason Strother reports from Seoul. Download MP3Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
It’s very difficult to be gay in South Korea. Michael Rhee reports from Seoul on a group of young people who are banding together to they don’t have to go it alone. Download MP3
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates arrived in South Korea Friday. He’s there nearly two months after North Korea launched an attack on Yeonpyeong Island. Since the deadly shelling the military there has stepped up recruiting efforts and is making it tougher for young men to get out of their mandatory 2 year service. But there’s at least one group of men that military recruiters are staying away from, North Korean defectors. From Seoul, Jason Strother has the story. Download MP3Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
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Today’s Geo Quiz is about peace or the lack thereof on the Korean peninsula. Throughout most of history wars have come and gone. And occasionally peace treaties were signed. Occasionally nations only agree to a cease-fire, maybe an armistice. The Korean War armistice was signed in 1953 but never followed by a formal peace treaty. The question we have for you is simply: where was it signed? Download MP3Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
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The US is mad at China for the artificially low value of its currency. China is mad at the US for the Federal Reserve’s decision to flood the US market with dollars. On the eve of the G20 summit in Seoul, Simon Johnson, professor at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the former chief for the International Monetary Fund, explains the issue. Download MP3 (Photo courtesy: BBC)Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
South Korea is a long way from Tennessee, where by some accounts rockabilly got its start decades ago. But as Jason Strother reports from Seoul, there’s at least one Korean band that’s trying to get listeners swinging to the sounds of boogie-woogie and rhythm and blues. Download MP3
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Famine in North Korea may have killed up to 2 million people during the 1990s. Now aid groups warn that the reclusive nation is facing another severe food shortage. Meanwhile South Korean farmers can’t sell all the rice they’re growing and that’s led to a price hike. Some say there’s one solution that would solve the problems of both Koreas. Reporter Jason Strother has more from Andong, 150 miles south of Seoul. Download MP3 (Photo:Jason Strother)Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Washington’s special North Korea representative, Stephen Bosworth, is in Pyongyang trying to restart stalled denuclearization talks. It’s unlikely that the envoy will meet with reclusive leader Kim Jong-il, as former President Bill Clinton did back in August. But if he does, it is sure to be covered in official North Korean media. And as reporter Jason Strother tells us, there is one anchorwoman whose job it is to report it: Ri Chun-hee. Download MP3 Photo: Reuters
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North Korea has freed a South Korean worker detained for allegedly insulting the North’s communist leadership. The engineer, Yoo Seong-jin, was handed over to officials of his company, Hyundai Asan, and has since crossed back into South Korea. Jason Strother reports. >>> More coverage from the BBC.(Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
