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While North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s brother, Kim Jong-nam, was recently murdered while living outside of the DPRK, he’s not the only Mount Paektu Bloodline member to have made it out of North Korea. Two articles from Anna Fifield, the Washington Post’s Tokyo Bureau Chief, have connected past defections both to & from North Korea to their present day consequences. Last year, Korea FM reporter Chance Dorland spoke with Fifield to learn how the decades old defection of American GI Joe Dresnok to North Korea, & the more recent defection of Kim Jong-un’s aunt to the US, are still being felt today.Rate & Review this podcast at http://bit.ly/KFMReviewStream the episode online at http://www.spreaker.com/user/seoulitup/kim-dynasty-family-members-living-in-us-Download the full episode at http://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/10935639/north_korea_us_defectors_korea_fm.mp3?force_download=1This episode is brought to you by Podcast Assist's $30 per hour flat rate podcasting voice overs, editing, masterin

As the Korean Wave continues to become popular in many parts of Asia, Korean dramas & music have also begun to make inroads in other parts of the world, including villages in rural Africa. Last spring, Korea FM reporter Chance Dorland spoke with Xiaochen Su, an American working in Tanzania for an agricultural micro finance institution to support local farmers, who had recently written an article describing how his new home was becoming inundated with Korean dramas & K-pop music. Korea FM also spoke with Husna Ramadhani, a Tanzanian woman who became interested in Korean dramas & music while attending university, & thinks the Korean wave will become even more popular as time goes on. Find more information via Su’s post at https://international.thenewslens.com/article/27864/Rate & Review this podcast at http://bit.ly/KFMReviewStream the episode online at http://www.spreaker.com/user/seoulitup/korean-wave-spreading-to-rural-african-vDownload the full episode at http://api.spreaker.com/download

According to a 2016 analysis of Forbes data on billionaires around the world, nearly three quarters of all South Korean billionaires inherited their wealth. Korea FM reporter Chance Dorland spoke with Caroline Freund, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute For International Economics, to learn why, despite the worldwide trend of self-made billionaires outnumbering individuals born into wealth, 74% of South Korea's richest citizens are not self made. Dorland also spoke with Seoul-based Forbes reporter Grace Chung to find out how Forbes tracks South Korean billionaires, & how the trends they're seeing now will play out in the future.Rate & Review this podcast at http://bit.ly/KFMReviewStream the episode online at http://www.spreaker.com/user/seoulitup/most-south-korean-billionaires-inheritedDownload the full episode at http://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/10634570/south_korean_billionaires_inherited_wealth.mp3Subscribe to this & other Korea FM original content via:iTunes - http://apple.co/1O9

*** Answer the Korea FM Listener Survey for a chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card. Visit http://bit.ly/KFMSurvey ***While Seoul's Noryangjin fish market is one of the top fish markets in the entire world, the stories making the news in South Korea & abroad have lately focused on the ongoing battle between the company that owns the market & fish sellers who have been operating businesses there for decades. Writer Dave Hazzan chronicled the struggle going on between the two sides for online publisher Zester Daily, & last summer, Korea FM’s Chance Dorland spoke with him to learn more about what Hazzan describes as a battle that will "determine the fate of one of the city’s most iconic food markets.”Rate & Review this podcast at http://bit.ly/KFMReviewStream the episode online at http://www.spreaker.com/user/seoulitup/battle-for-seouls-noryangjin-fish-market/Download the full episode at http://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/10455322/noryangjin_fish_market_korea_fm.mp3Subscribe to this & ot

*** Fill out the Korea FM Listener Survey for a chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card. Visit http://bit.ly/KFMSurvey ***Emergency contraception became a hot topic in South Korea last summer after the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety’s decision to continue its policy of no over-the-counter sales at pharmacies of what is commonly referred to as the "morning-after pill." Following the ruling, a growing number of Korean women, & several women’s rights groups, voiced their demands for non-prescription access to the medication. The Korea Herald reported on the decision and subsequent public fallout, and Herald writer Claire Lee spoke with Korea FM's Chance Dorland about her reporting and the arguments used both for and against making non-prescription, emergency contraception pills available in the ROK. Korea FM also spoke with US-based Reproductive Health Access Project Executive Director Lisa Maldonado to gain perspective on how emergency contraception is viewed outside of South Korea.Rate & Review this pod

Fill out the Korea FM Listener Survey for a chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card. Visit http://bit.ly/KFMSurveyMillions are traveling across the country for the Lunar New Year, President Park Geun-hye faces criticism for blaming her impeachment on “lies and conspiracies”, Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon has dropped out of the presidential race, a new Marvel movie will film in South Korea, and more on the latest Korean News Update podcast from Korea FM.Rate & Review this podcast at http://bit.ly/KFMReviewThis episode is brought to you by Podcast Assist's $30 per hour flat rate podcasting voice overs, editing, mastering, transcriptions & even hosting (select a topic & they'll create & host the podcast). Visit https://www.facebook.com/PodcastAssist/ for more information. Subscribe to this & other Korea FM original content via:iTunes - http://apple.co/1O91B39Overcast - http://bit.ly/KFMovercastRSS - http://bit.ly/KFMfeedStitcher - http://bit.ly/KFMstitcheraudioBoom - http://bit.ly/KFMaudioBoomPlayer

Last spring, thousands of coffee lovers, shop owners & business professionals traveled to Gangnam for Coffee Expo Seoul 2016, an event organized by Coex & the Korea Coffee Association as Korea’s premier coffee industry and equipment trade show, complete with premium coffees & teas, coffee ingredients, machinery & equipment, gourmet food, & shop supplies from around the world. Korea FM reporter Chance Dorland attended the event to speak with organizers, employees running booths & patrons in attendance.Find more info on last year’s expo at http://coffeeexposeoul.com/last-years-show/.Rate & Review this podcast at http://bit.ly/KFMReviewStream the episode online at http://www.spreaker.com/user/seoulitup/most-south-korean-billionaires-inheritedDownload the full episode at http://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/10634570/south_korean_billionaires_inherited_wealth.mp3This episode is brought to you by Podcast Assist's $30 per hour flat rate podcasting voice overs, editing, mastering, tran

In March of last year, North Korea-focused NGOs gathered in Yeouido at the South Korean National Assembly to inform perspective volunteers how they can donate their skills to help North Korean refugees and improve inter-Korean relations. Organizations represented included Justice for North Korea (JFNK), Teach North Korean Refugees (TNKR), Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG), Report Center for North Korean Refugees (RCNKR), 1969 Korean Air Abductees Family Committee (KAAFCK), Unification Media Group(UMG), and the International Coalition to stop crimes against humanity in North Korea (ICNK). For more information, visit https://www.meetup.com/KoreaQA/events/228148780/.Rate & Review this podcast at http://bit.ly/KFMReviewThis episode is brought to you by Podcast Assist's $30 per hour flat rate podcasting voice overs, editing, mastering, transcriptions & even hosting (select a topic & they'll create & host the podcast). Visit https://www.facebook.com/PodcastAssist/ for more information. Subsc

The summer of 2016 marked the first time a vegan festival was held in Seoul. Korea FM reporter Chance Dorland attended Vegan Festival Korea to speak with its organizers, and some of its attendees, about how new food options are making it easier than ever before to maintain a vegan lifestyle in the ROK.Rate & Review this podcast at http://bit.ly/KFMReviewThis episode is brought to you by Podcast Assist's $30 per hour flat rate podcasting voice overs, editing, mastering, transcriptions & even hosting (select a topic & they'll create & host the podcast). Visit https://www.facebook.com/PodcastAssist/ for more information. Subscribe to this & other Korea FM original content via:iTunes - http://apple.co/1O91B39Overcast - http://bit.ly/KFMovercastRSS - http://bit.ly/KFMfeedStitcher - http://bit.ly/KFMstitcheraudioBoom - http://bit.ly/KFMaudioBoomPlayer FM - http://bit.ly/KFMplayerfmTunein - http://bit.ly/KFMtuneinAcast - http://bit.ly/KFMacast

Due to suspected cheating, this summer the ACT exam was cancelled for all test-takers in South Korea & Hong Kong in what became the first cancellation of the exam to ever affect an entire country, a decision that prevented some 5,500 students from taking the exam at 56 different test centers.To find out how important the ACT is for South Korean students, & how those who were scheduled to take the test were affected by its cancellation, Korea FM’s Chance Dorland spoke with Peter Chi, the managing director of test prep company IvyConnection.Rate & Review this podcast at http://bit.ly/KFMReviewThis episode is brought to you by Podcast Assist's $30 per hour flat rate podcasting voice overs, editing, mastering, transcriptions & even hosting (select a topic & they'll create & host the podcast). Visit https://www.facebook.com/PodcastAssist/ for more information. Subscribe to this & other Korea FM original content via:iTunes - http://apple.co/1O91B39Overcast - http://bit.ly/KFMovercastRSS

South Korean ‘comfort women’ were recently remembered at an event in Melbourne as part of ’16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence,’ a movement that started at Rutgers University in 1991 but is now part of an official UN campaign. As it does every year, the campaign kicked off around the world on November 25th, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and will run through International Human Rights Day on December 10th. On Friday, November 25th, Korea FM reporter Chance Dorland attended this special event in Melbourne to bring attention to past crimes again women in the hopes that spreading knowledge about previous wrongdoings can help prevent further violence against women in the future.Rate & Review this podcast at http://bit.ly/KFMReviewThis episode is brought to you by Podcast Assist's $30 per hour flat rate podcasting voice overs, editing, mastering, transcriptions & even hosting (select a topic & they'll create & host the podcast). Visit https://www.

Since the fall of 2012, Zandari Festa has brought Korean, expat and international musical acts to Hongdae, an area of Seoul known to be the indie music capital of South Korea. This year's Zandari Festa took place from September 30 to October 3 with a reported 160 plus acts performing at a dozen venues, with what seemed to be a larger focus on bands from England and France than in previous years. Korea FM’s Chance Dorland spoke with British act “Atlas Wynd” and Busan’s “Say Sue Me” after their performances in Hongdae. Photos courtesy of Douglas Vautour Photography.Rate & Review this podcast at http://bit.ly/KFMReviewThis episode is brought to you by Podcast Assist's $30 per hour flat rate podcasting voice overs, editing, mastering, transcriptions & even hosting (select a topic & they'll create & host the podcast). Visit https://www.facebook.com/PodcastAssist/ for more information. Subscribe to this & other Korea FM original content via:iTunes - http://apple.co/1O91B39Overcast - http://bit.l

Despite fighting for several years to be made a naturalized American citizen, a US immigration judge has now ordered Korean-born American adoptee Adam Crapser to be deported from the United States. The now 41 year old was adopted from a South Korean orphanage at the age of three, but after suffering severe child abuse & neglect from two different adoptive families, both sets of abusive parents & the State of Oregon also failed to move forward with the process of granting Crasper US citizenship. As a result, the Korean-born Adam Crapser is fighting to bring attention to his & other cases of children adopted to the US who never officially gained citizenship. Korea FM’s Chance Dorland spoke with National Korean American Service & Education Consortium Advocacy Director Emily Kessel & “Adapted” podcast host Kaomi Goetz to learn more about what is being done to help Adam Crapser & other Korean adoptees who have faced hardship as a result of problems in the system.Rate & Review this podca

As temperatures rose in Seoul & the rest of the country this summer, so did public drinking & reports of intoxication & altercations with police. Korea FM’s Chance Dorland spoke with Korea Times writer Hong Dam-young about her coverage of the rise & People Unite Against Street Harassment president Brittany Hayes about the increased threat of harassment during summer months.Rate & Review this podcast at http://bit.ly/KFMReviewThis episode is brought to you by Podcast Assist's $30 per hour flat rate podcasting voice overs, editing, mastering, transcriptions & even hosting (select a topic & they'll create & host the podcast). Visit https://www.facebook.com/PodcastAssist/ for more information. Subscribe to this & other Korea FM original content via:iTunes - http://apple.co/1O91B39Overcast - http://bit.ly/KFMovercastRSS - http://bit.ly/KFMfeedStitcher - http://bit.ly/KFMstitcheraudioBoom - http://bit.ly/KFMaudioBoomPlayer FM - http://bit.ly/KFMplayerfmTunein - http://bit.ly/KFMt

The announcement earlier this year by Yuhan-Kimberly, South Korea's leading company in the domestic sanitary pad market, that it would increase the price of its pads by up to 20 percent has resulted in a social media backlash against the company & the highlighting of stories from low-income teenagers who, already unable to afford sanitary pads & other products, have even had to miss school when having their period. Korea FM's Chance Dorland spoke with Korea Bizwire's Joseph Shin about news coverage of the controversy & also with Camilla Wirseen, CEO of The Cup Foundation, who says a sanitary pad substitute product used in developing countries would also be beneficial for South Korean women.Rate & Review this podcast at http://bit.ly/KFMReviewThis episode is brought to you by Podcast Assist's $30 per hour flat rate podcasting voice overs, editing, mastering, transcriptions & even hosting (select a topic & they'll create & host the podcast). Visit https://www.facebook.com/PodcastAssi

Earlier this year, more than 100 sinkholes were discovered in Seoul, & with an additional 246-kilometer section of the capital yet to be scanned, that number could rise to as many as 300 or more. Korea FM’s Chance Dorland spoke with David Weary, a research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia, & Jessica Canaan of Florida-based Champion Foundation Repair, to learn how sinkholes are formed & what could be done here in Seoul to both repair & prevent more sinkholes from developing in the future.Rate & Review this podcast at http://bit.ly/KFMReviewThis episode is brought to you by Podcast Assist's $30 per hour flat rate podcasting voice overs, editing, mastering, transcriptions & even hosting (select a topic & they'll create & host the podcast). Visit https://www.facebook.com/PodcastAssist/ for more information. Subscribe to this & other Korea FM original content via:iTunes - http://apple.co/1O91B39Overcast - http://bit.ly/KFMovercastRSS - http://bit.ly/KF

A 50 year old Chinese man visiting Jeju Island recently stabbed & killed a South Korean woman while she prayed at a cathedral. The murder shocked the ROK & also triggered an online petition demanding the end of visa waivers for Chinese tourists on Jeju. However, even before this tragic murder, with the government & tourism industry entrepreneurs taking advantage of the increasing number of tourists to the island, more & more emerging voices say regulations must be put in place to protect Jeju from too much tourism, including one foreign journalist on the island who stresses the need to prevent the loss of what attracts visitors in the first place. Korea FM's Chance Dorland spoke with former Jeju Weekly writer & editorial advisor Darren Southcott & tourism expert Ross Dowling about how making the right decisions now will ensure Jeju's tourism success in the future.Rate & Review this podcast at http://bit.ly/KFMReviewThis episode is brought to you by Podcast Assist's $30 per hour fla

This week, South Korea experienced two strong earthquakes centered near Gyeongju city, including a magnitude-5.8 quake that was the largest ever recorded in the ROK. Before these events, due to seismic activity earlier this year in Japan, as well as aftershocks felt in South Korea, some were beginning to ask if a whether a major seismic event could also hit the ROK & if buildings, bridges & other infrastructure could survive. To answer these questions, Korea FM’s Chance Dorland spoke with Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources (KIGAM) senior researcher Dr. Taesung Kim & Tae-Hyung Lee, a Konkuk University department of civil engineering professor & member of the Korean Earthquake Engineering Society.Rate & Review this podcast at http://bit.ly/KFMReviewThis episode is brought to you by Podcast Assist's $30 per hour flat rate podcasting voice overs, editing, mastering, transcriptions & even hosting (select a topic & they'll create & host the podcast). Visit https://

Recently, popular news website Korea Exposé, which brands itself as "showing Korea as it really is," published two pieces related to South Korean feminism & "Megalia," the controversial online community that has divided Korean netizens as to what are appropriate ways for activists to engage in gender equality discussions. Korea FM host Chance Dorland spoke with NY Times writer, professor & Korea Exposé managing editor Se-Woong Koo about his recent article titled "In Defense of Feminism" as well as RealKoreans.com founder "Emily Singh," a Korean writer who detailed the rise and fall of the Megalia online community but does not use her real name due to fear of backlash.Rate & Review this podcast at http://bit.ly/KFMReviewThis episode is brought to you by Podcast Assist's $30 per hour flat rate podcasting voice overs, editing, mastering, transcriptions & even hosting (select a topic & they'll create & host the podcast). Visit https://www.facebook.com/PodcastAssist/ for more information.

Despite an ongoing fight from tobacco companies, the South Korean government says starting in December, health-warning text & images must be included on the upper part of all cigarette packaging for sale in the ROK. Canada was the first country to make the change about 15 years ago, & Korea FM’s Chance Dorland recently spoke about that first of its kind transition with Canadian Cancer Society Senior Policy Analyst Rob Cunningham & Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada Executive Director Cynthia Callard to discuss how the new rules went into effect, the opposition they faced from tobacco companies, & how similar regulations could work here in South Korea.Rate & Review this podcast at http://bit.ly/KFMReviewThis episode is brought to you by Podcast Assist's $30 per hour flat rate podcasting voice overs, editing, mastering, transcriptions & even hosting (select a topic & they'll create & host the podcast). Visit https://www.facebook.com/PodcastAssist/ for more information. Subscribe