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Jung Hawon

Seoul correspondent for the AFP news agency. Mizzou j-school alum.

PARK GEUN HYE

31 OCT 2018

Samsung Electronics posts record in Q3 despite smartphone struggles

The world’s top maker of smartphones and memory chips has recovered from a series of setbacks

Jung Hawon

3 min read

Ahn Hee-jung was governor of South Chungcheong province when his aide Kim Ji-eun told a television interview earlier this year that he had raped her four times after she was hired.(Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

METOO

14 AUG 2018

South Korea’s former presidential hopeful acquitted in sex abuse case

The case involving Ahn Hee-jung is by far the highest-profile in the country’s growing #MeToo movement

Jung Hawon

3 min read

DONALD TRUMP

27 MAY 2018

Trump and Kim raise summit hopes after days of brinkmanship

Trump rattled the region on Thursday by cancelling a planned June 12 meeting with Kim in Singapore, citing "open hostility" from Pyongyang

Esther Chan 1
Jung Hawon

5 min read

SEOUL

19 NOV 2004

South Korean man tries a Big Mac on for size

A South Korean gorged for 24 days on fast food to warn his countrymen about its health consequences, mimicking the United States box office-hit documentary Super Size Me about…

Jung Hawon

3 min read