S. Korea in shock, grief as 153 die in Halloween crowd surge

- Monday, October 31, 2022 - 1 year ago No Comments 229,914 Views

Concerned relatives raced to hospitals in search of their loved ones yesterday as South Korea mourned the deaths of more than 150 people, mostly in their

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Exclusive | S Korea: Slaves freed from salt farms face misery in shelters

- Thursday, January 8, 2015 - 9 years ago No Comments 3,177 Views

Life as a salt-farm slave was so bad Kim Jong-seok sometimes fantasized about killing the owner who beat him daily. Freedom, he says, has been worse. In the year since police emancipated