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  • Jake Kwon
    Producer

    Jake Kwon is a producer for CNN International based in Seoul, specializing in coverage of Korea's geopolitical and societal changes.

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  • A South Korean man pays tribute at a memorial altar as his makes a call of condolence in honor of the K-pop star Goo Hara at the Seoul St. Mary's Hospital on November 25, 2019 in Seoul, South Korea. K-pop star Goo Hara of Kara was found dead yesterday on November 24.

    After another K-pop death, spotlight turns to difficulties faced by industry's 'perfect' stars

  • North Korea fires projectiles from 'super-large' missile launcher, South Korea says

  • SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - OCTOBER 26: Former member of South Korean girl group KARA, Hara attends the "Mackage" 2017 FW Collection photocall on October 26, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Han Myung-Gu/WireImage)

    Goo Hara, K-pop star of Kara fame, found dead

  • A businessman is buying online using his mobile phone and credit card

    A phone scammer posing as a detective called a police station in South Korea. It didn't end well

  • Eo Yun-gwon

    Seoul chef Eo Yun-gwon sues Michelin Guide for including his restaurant

  • BTS perform onstage during the 2019 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 1, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

    BTS won't get an exemption from military service authorities confirm

  • G-Dragon poses for photographs after being discharged from the army in Yongin, South Korea, on October 26, 2019.

    Fans rejoice as K-pop star G-Dragon finishes compulsory military service

  • Kim Jong Un visits the Yangdok County Hot Spring Resort in North Korea.

    Kim Jong Un visits 'peculiar and absolutely perfect' North Korean spa town

  • In this July 1993 file photo, authorities in Hwaseong, south of Seoul, investigate a rape and murder believed to have been done by a serial killer.

    South Korean man confesses to a series of murders that stumped police for decades