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Lunar New Year: The London suburb where North and South Koreans unite

13 Feb 2024
People come together and eat at Lunar New Year celebrations As millions of people around the world ring in the Lunar New Year, the celebrations in one London suburb are…
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Inside the UK’s very own Little Korea

29 Sep 202129 Sep 2021
In a quiet suburb outside of London resides Europe’s largest Korean expatriate population. Among this tight-knit community are a significant number of DPRK defectors, who are forging a new life…
BBC News

The cinemas now hiring out their screens to gamers

11 Feb 2021
Korean cinema chain CGV allows gamers to hire screens from $90 (£65) for two hours Eui Jeong Lee and three of her friends sit in an otherwise empty 200-seat cinema…
BBC News

The inventor inspired by wanting to keep his daughter safe

27 Oct 2020
Kim Kyeong Yeon (left) and Kim Yoo Cheol with three of their Clear Win units When Kim Kyeong Yeon's 13-year-old daughter fell and injured herself on an escalator, she set…
The Observer

Print version: For Surrey’s Koreans, the north-south divide is as stark as at home

14 Feb 20195 Mar 2019
Published in The Observer newspaper (Feb 10 2019)
The Guardian

For Surrey’s Koreans, simmering tensions reflect the north-south divide at home

10 Feb 201927 Jul 2022
New Malden’s South Koreans are now being joined by increasing numbers from the north, but a shared language is no guarantee of harmony South Koreans in New Malden celebrate a…
The Telegraph

French court follows UK in ruling against Uber in ’employment’ contract case

11 Jan 2019
Uber maintains it has no control over its network of self-employed drivers CREDIT: CHRIS RATCLIFFE/BLOOMBERG Ride-hailing service Uber lost an appeal in France brought by a former driver who wanted to be…
The Telegraph

Eight-year-old girl dies as Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon hit by extreme winter weather

11 Jan 2019
The Arsal refugee camp near the Syrian border was blanketed by thick snow CREDIT: ANADOLU AGENCY An 8-year-old Syrian girl has died in Lebanon after she fell into a swollen river and drowned in the northern town…
The Telegraph

Donald Trump’s sweet treats fail to convince Democrats as wall meeting ends in acrimony

10 Jan 2019
Details of the bizarre meeting in the Situation Room were leaked soon after CREDIT:  AL DRAGO/ BLOOMBERG Donald Trump was on Thursday heading to the border with Mexico to step up pressure on funding…
The Telegraph

Malta allows 49 migrants stranded off coast since December to disembark

9 Jan 201910 Jan 2019
Migrants stand on the deck of the migrant search and rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 CREDIT:  REUTERS/DARRIN ZAMMIT LUPI Malta migrants Timeline of rescue -Dec 22, 2018 Sea-Watch 3, a vessel of Germany-based aid…

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