Max Kim @maxsoeunkim
Seoul correspondent @latimes LA타임즈 서울 특파원 | Send tips to: [email protected] | bluesky: @maxsoeunkim.bsky.social maxsoeunkim.com Seoul Joined August 2014-
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South Korean convenience stores seem to be getting wilder with each passing year, offering hundreds of instant meals, gold bars, single malt whiskies and, at one point, BMWs. I wrote about why in my latest: latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Just finished reading this fabulous series from my @latimes colleagues imagining a future Los Angeles that works better for everyone. Will share some highlights... latimes.com/california/sto… 🧵
Some wonderful reporting from my colleagues in our five-part series @latimes on how L.A. might become a more sustainable and climate-resilient city, including a piece from yours truly on protecting against flooding by building more parks: latimes.com/world-nation/s…
The story by @frankshyong this film is based on is an incredible piece of writing that you won’t regret reading: latimes.com/local/la-me-mo…
The story by @frankshyong this film is based on is an incredible piece of writing that you won’t regret reading: latimes.com/local/la-me-mo…
Americans often come to South Korea and balk at the glut of high-rise apartments, seen as soulless, sterile, suffocating. But as cities like LA face severe housing crises, there is something to be said about the very different idea of homes behind them: latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Growing political gaps between men and women are being observed all over the world — including in South Korea, where a recent presidential election showed a staggering 40 percent point difference between 20-something men and women. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
The prospects of Trump wooing back Kim Jong Un were already looking rather dim, but his strike on Iran might have been the final nail in the coffin. In my latest: latimes.com/world-nation/s…
A group of 105 South Koreans — led by a lawyer who was behind two presidential impeachments — is suing former president Yoon Suk Yeol for emotional damages suffered from his martial law declaration latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Love him or hate him, South Korea's new president Lee Jae-myung — a former child factory worker born into crushing poverty — has had an extraordinary life, which I wrote it about here: latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Trump's auto tariffs reignite concerns about GM's future in South Korea latimes.com/world-nation/s…
South Korea's Constitutional Court has just removed President Yoon Suk Yeol from office for declaring martial law last December. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Will Korea's 'sensitive' country designation impair cooperation with the U.S.? latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Trump says South Korea wants to invest in the Alaska gas pipeline. Does it? latimes.com/world-nation/s…
In the last few years, many U.S. born-Koreans have been astonished to learn that they are expected to serve in the South Korean military, despite having never lived there. My latest for @latimes explains why: latimes.com/world-nation/s…
The L.A. fires left behind the question of how — or if at all — we should rebuild in high-risk areas. 16 years ago, after nearly being wiped out in Australia's deadliest bushfire, the town of Marysville asked itself the same. W/ @mariapet: latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Academics in Spain, France and elsewhere have tried to stop the creep of English into their languages. Now it's South Korea's turn. If you love language(s), you'll enjoy this Column One by @maxsoeunkim. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Sometime In the last few years, I started noticing that South Korea's love of loanwords was reaching absurd levels. And as I discovered last fall, there's a government agency that's furiously trying to translate them: latimes.com/world-nation/s…
With historically opposing wildfire seasons, the US and Australia send each other firefighting resources when things are slow at home. But the L.A. fires hint this system is cracking. My latest: latimes.com/world-nation/s…

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