Jintak Han
@jintakhan.com
Photojournalist and picture editor in Seoul Former photo editor, @washingtonpost.com Member of @diversifyphoto.bsky.social Trained linguist. 🗣🇰🇷🇺🇸🇯🇵
Katie Mettler, a former chair of the Washington Post guild, said: “I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...
Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure
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I went and saw what it’s like to be swarmed by thousands (millions?) of little bugs in heat so you don’t have to www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Lovebugs vex South Korea, covering hiking trails and sidewalks
The non-native insects have no natural predators and have grown in numbers in recent years. Experts say warming temperatures could be a factor in their proliferation.
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Breaking news: A former senior Syrian security official told the FBI that American journalist Austin Tice was killed in 2013 on the orders of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, an account that has not been corroborated by the U.S.
Former Syrian official claims Assad gave order to kill Austin Tice in 2013
U.S. officials are investigating an uncorroborated account from a high-ranking former Syrian official that American freelance journalist Austin Tice was executed in 2013.
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The Trump administration has cast the undocumented as criminals responsible for California's woes and the ICE protests as an overreaction to basic deportation operations. The reality is very different @mariasacchetti.bsky.social reports www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Fact-checking Trump and Miller’s claims of a ‘migrant invasion’ in California
Federal and state data tell a far different story about migration to California than the political fury unfolding in Washington and on the streets of Los Angeles.
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I've sunset the redirect account @jintakhan.bsky.social since @bsky.app has largely addressed this issue. It would be nice if the handle continued to redirect to custom domain handles, but at least they are listening.
Jintak Han@jintakhan.com · 2y agoOr @bsky.app needs to link the self-verified domain to the corresponding bsky.social handle instead of vacating it so this never happens in the first place. There’s a reason why I used an invite code on myself to make @jintakhan.bsky.social last year.
Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”
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Four people are dead and six injured after a highway bridge under construction in Cheonan, South Korea, collapsed on Tuesday, officials said. South Korea has the third-highest fatal workplace injury rate, which is double the OECD average. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
4 killed as South Korean highway bridge collapses during construction
Six others were injured when a highway bridge collapsed in Cheonan, a city south of Seoul. The country has one of the highest workplace fatality rates in the OECD.
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BREAKING South Korea's Yoon Suk Yeol, accused of leading insurrection last month in botched martial law declaration, is nation's first sitting president to be arrested Andrew Jeong reports from Seoul with @jintakhan.com @myhlee.bsky.social @pietsch.bsky.social wapo.st/4jnUzb1
South Korean president arrested, accused of leading insurrection
Yoon, who was impeached and suspended from office in December, is the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested.
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The Post’s analysis offers evidence that the Palisades Fire started in the area where firefighters had spent hours using helicopters to knock down a blaze six days earlier.
What caused the Palisades blaze? Visual evidence points to a recent fire nearby
The Post’s analysis offers evidence that the Palisades Fire started in the area where firefighters had spent hours using helicopters to knock down a blaze six days earlier.
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It's no exaggeration to say there is a torrent of news in South Korea right now. Blinken is visiting, while investigators trying to figure out how/when to arrest Yoon, impeachment trials of Yoon and the impeached PM under prep, ongoing Jeju Air investigation, now a North Korean ballistic missile.
It was, with little doubt, their worst New Year’s Day ever. Heartbreaking new year's dispatch from our Seoul team from Muan Airport in South Korea, where victims' families are mourning their loved ones as investigators focus on the cause of the deadly crash: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
New year but no end to mourning as South Korea crash victims are identified
Relatives of victims have set up memorials at the airport where the Jeju Air plane went down in the world’s deadliest aviation crash in six years.
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Go behind the scenes as “Sesame Street” takes on the emotional health of children — and, with an HBO deal ending, the health of the show itself.
Inside ‘Sesame Street’ as it fights to survive
Go behind the scenes as “Sesame Street” takes on the emotional health of children — and, with an HBO deal ending, the health of the show itself.
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Every day we face challenges that the Founders could not have dreamed.
my top 10 games of 2024! www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Review | The best video games of the year
Our critic’s picks for the best 10 video games of 2024 include some of the best narratives, small-team innovations and mechanical polish in years.
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Andy@andyukb.bsky.social · 2y agoWhat's your GOTY Gene?
From one impeachment to another: the original photo is from former president Park Geun-hye’s impeachment in 2017. m.mt.co.kr/renew/view_a...
Michelle Ye Hee Lee@myhlee.bsky.social · 2y agoThis photo circulating this morning as Yoon spoke for the 1st time since declaring martial law, with a wholehearted defense of his actions. The ajusshi-throwing-soju-bottle photo existed, and someone photoshopped Yoon in. Pretty much captures the mood here right now. (Reposting w/correct caption)
This photo circulating this morning as Yoon spoke for the 1st time since declaring martial law, with a wholehearted defense of his actions. The ajusshi-throwing-soju-bottle photo existed, and someone photoshopped Yoon in. Pretty much captures the mood here right now. (Reposting w/correct caption)
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
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Breaking news: President-elect Donald Trump plans to fire the entire team that worked with special counsel Jack Smith to pursue two federal prosecutions against the former president, according to two individuals close to Trump’s transition.
Trump plans to fire Jack Smith’s team, use DOJ to probe 2020 election
The plans show how president-elect Donald Trump wants to use the Justice Department to address his own personal grievances.
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