Producer. Covered the 2024 MLB season’s opener in Seoul alongside Korea’s sports-fan culture. For CBC News with Asia correspondent Philippe Leblanc.
Producer. We visited fishing villages close to North Korea to hear how the rise in tension with the North and the recent spate of missile alerts have disturbed their lives.
Producer. South Korea's rapidly aging society presents economic and productivity challenges. We speak with government officials, recent retirees, and Korean women who hesitate about the prospect of motherhood in this society to hear what they see as the solution.
Producer. A look into the multi-faced impact of the Korean Wave, as K-pop and other aspects of Korean culture ride unprecedented global popularity. Filmed in Korea and Taiwan.
Local Producer. The 4B movement in South Korea represents one of the most radical rejections of patriarchy to date: no sex, no dating, no marriage, no children. We spoke to young women to learn why they’re choosing to boycott engagement with men.
Producer. On a Halloween weekend in 2022, Seoul, nearly 160 young people were crushed to death in a narrow alleyway in the neighborhood of Itaewon. We spoke to survivors and bereaved family on the one-year-anniversary of this traumatic event.
Producer. Mr. Kim fled North Korea by sea with his entire family - his pregnant wife, his mother, his brother's family in early 2023. They are the first people to have fled the country this year and make it to the South. Mr Kim told the BBC how he masterminded his escape, in the first interview with a defector to have got out since the pandemic.
Producer. South Korea has the lowest birth rate in the world, and it continues to plummet, beating its own staggeringly low record year after year. We spoke to three women about their decision to have or not have children.
Producer. We filmed inside Taesung-dong, a small village in the heart of Korea’s Demilitarised Zone – the strip of no-man’s land separating North and South Korea.