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A Trojan Wall of Separation: The Battle Over South Korean Textbooks
33 weeks 4 days ago

BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA -- This last spring, the Society for Textbook Revise [sic] managed to sneak up on us and attack evolution theory as it was...

Commentary: The Importance of Voting
38 weeks 16 hours ago

BUSAN, South Korea -- Over the past year, Busan Haps has given me the opportunity to write a series of articles on American politics. That opportunity has been deeply appreciated by this author. In all of my previous articles I have refrained from using the...

Feature: Analyzing Private vs. Public Enterprise
41 weeks 12 hours ago

BUSAN, South Korea -- Over the past three decades we have observed a slow, well planned and insidious takeover of public and non-profit American institutions by the private sector, to the detriment of the well-...

Swiss Footballer Expelled For Racist Korean Tweet
42 weeks 1 day ago

LONDON, England -- Once again, Twitter has claimed another victim. Just three days into the London Olympics, Swiss footballer Michel Morganella has been expelled for a racist tweet directed at the South Korean football team after they...

Ask Leah: Should I Ditch the Long Distance Love?
1 year 12 weeks ago

I have been in Korea for a year and have enjoyed it so much that I have decided to extend another year. The problem is that I have my boyfriend back home and promised him I would come back. He doesn...

Response: From the Front Lines
1 year 14 weeks ago

BUSAN, South Korea -- First of all, I am more than just a bystander on the issue of animal rights in Korea. I joined an advocacy organization in 2005, and served for several years as the media production coordinator. In that capacity I reported on various activities related to the dog meat issue, and approached it as an investigative journalist, my career for five years before coming to Korea in 2001. In 2008 I founded the Busan Abandoned Pet Sanctuary, and...

Featured Collection: The Great Dog Meat Debate
1 year 14 weeks ago

 

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Feature: Dog Meat and the Cultural Conquistadors
1 year 14 weeks ago

WASHINGTON, DC -- I have a common sense solution to resolve, once and for all, most of the controversy surrounding Korea’s dog meat consumption. It goes like this:

Regulate the slaughter, processing and consumption of dog meat just like any other meat, because right now, dog meat in Korea is not being regulated as much as it should be. The...

Feature: The Fight Against the Dog Meat Industry
1 year 15 weeks ago

BUSAN, South Korea -- Controversy over the consumption of dog meat continues in South Korea, with both sides passionate in their beliefs. Increasingly, more and more Koreans are lining up to fight an industry that they feel is cruel and inhumane.

Activist groups like the Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE) and the Korean Animal Rights Advocates (KARA) are working tirelessly to...

Feature: Trying Dog Stew
1 year 17 weeks ago

BUSAN, South Korea -- Last year over dinner, my Kiwi friend and I happened across the topic of eating dog meat – he had eaten it before and said that he enjoyed it. As most westerners tend to shy away from such fare, it took me by surprise. After all, he didn’t look like someone who would eat dog meat. I mean, he didn’t have long arms with knuckles dragging the floor or over-sized fangs protruding from his mouth  – he looked like a “normal” person....

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