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Hyejin Kim

Contributor profile · 229 posts · joined 23 April 2007

Regional Editor for Korea

Hyejin Kim enjoys hiking, learning about new places, and pondering the world. In her free time, she writes about interesting things she has encountered through work, school, and life. She blogs with Erik Mobrand at katongcouple.blogspot.com.

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1 May 2009

Korea: Minerva and Release after 100-Days Detention

Written by Hyejin Kim · East Asia

A blogger who is known by his pseudonym, Minerva, was released after 100 days detention. His 280 postings criticizing economic policies of the new Korean government and predicting economy downturn...

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24 April 2009

Korea: Things that might surprise you in North America

Written by Hyejin Kim · East Asia, North America

A netizen shows an interesting post about 22 things that surprise you while you travel America. It is fun to see how things are natural in a place could be...

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18 April 2009

Korea: Is teachers’ physical punishment toward students a crime?

Written by Hyejin Kim · East Asia

A second grade student at a primary school was struck 27 times by her teacher because she gave the wrong answer to a math question. After her mother put a...

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11 April 2009

Korea: Launch of Missile (or Satellite) from North Korea and South Koreans.

Written by Hyejin Kim · East Asia

What people expected really happened. North Korea launched their rocket or satellite on the 5th of April, which is tree planting day in South Korea. After the event there have...

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5 April 2009

Korea: Soccer Game between Korea and Korea.

Written by Hyejin Kim · East Asia

For the 2010 World Cup of South Africa, there was a preliminary game in South Korea. The appointed teams were North Korea and South Korea. After the game, bloggers share their feelings.

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27 March 2009

Korea: Blog, Bloggers, and Etiquette.

Written by Hyejin Kim · East Asia

While bloggers seem to be equally distant from each other, they are in fact not. They have their favorite blogs and bloggers, and they link their blogs to each other....

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