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Kelly KasulisKK

Kelly Kasulis

Kelly Kasulis is a freelance journalist. She has written for PRI, The GroundTruth Project, The Boston Globe, Quartz, Mic and others. Follow her on Twitter: @KasulisK
An image of a Korean music star wearing a yellow shirt
Music
Move over K-pop: Korean youth turn to old-time trot music
A young man stands in front of media surrounded by other men
Sexual violence
South Korea reels from latest high-tech, online sex trafficking case
A girl wearing a protective face mask to prevent contracting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) rides a toy kick scooter at a park in Seoul, South Korea, April 3, 2020.
COVID-19
South Korea’s delivery workers face ‘unbearable’ pressures amid COVID-19
The cast of "Parasite" accepts the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture during the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles,  Jan. 19, 2020.  
Arts, Culture & Media
Oscar-nominated ‘Parasite’ speaks to a growing divide in South Korea
Seo Ji-hye and Cho Sung-won watch as their two-year-old son, Han-sol, plays with a toy train in his bedroom in Seoul.
Lifestyle & Belief
Seoul’s subsidized housing gives newlyweds a new lease on the future
Rows of military men in white and black uniforms line up perfectly in front of a gray airplane
Military
South Korea wants to draft more men for its shrinking military — and punish those who dodge
A North Korean soldier keeps watch toward the south through a binocular telescope
Conflict & Justice
South Korea just repatriated two North Korean fishermen. Why?
tattooist
Culture
South Korea has a burgeoning tattoo scene. But most tattoo parlors are illegal.
Man stands at protest with red sign and white letters in Korean
Global Politics
South Korean minister of justice resigns amid national reckoning with corruption
A man wearing a white robe delivers a speech and uses his hand to emphasize a point
Nuclear
Just ‘empty’ words? South Korea’s Moon calls for peace with North Korea by 2045.
A plastic sex doll with brown wig sits in an office chair
Sexuality
South Korea’s sex doll industry stirs controversy with ‘life-size’ imports
Man stands in 7-Eleven in work vest
Protest
South Korea’s ‘No Japan’ boycott is new. But the wounds are old.
Two men talk over lunch.
Jobs
South Korea’s new ‘blind hiring’ law bans personal interview questions
South Korea's Moon Jae-in holds an umbrella over his head
Global Politics
Moon bets his legacy on meeting with Trump
ruined homes in seoul during the korean war
History
Scenes from Seoul unearthed in unpublished collection of Korean war-era photos
Two cats put their heads together in a snuggle.
Lifestyle & Belief
It’s meow or never: Seoul’s street cats fight for love
Police control crowd in protest with signs with Korean letters.
Global Politics
South Korean aid to North Korea could be a game changer — if North Korea accepts it
A group of protesters wear yellow scarves and hold blue signs.
Global Politics
Some South Koreans say Trump-Kim summit is ‘all political theater’
A hand holds a smart phone.
Trump’s trade war with China drives silent wedge between US and South Korea
South Korean soldiers stand guard as construction equipment destroys a guard post in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas in Cheorwon, Nov. 15, 2018. 
US Diplomacy
Should the US lift sanctions against North Korea already?
a korean soldier's face
Conflict & Justice
Learning of threats in the shadow of war
A man throws a plastic water bottle into a dark gray sea
Commentary
This group uses the tide to send bottles of rice and contraband to North Korea
a poster in North Korea calling for the US to withdraw its military from the south
Global Politics
Inter-Korean summit produces ‘totally unprecedented’ results
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un walk together
Global Politics
Diplomacy between Kim Jong-un and Trump is unraveling, and South Korea’s president will suffer
Putin
Global Politics
Kim Jong-un’s next summits will apparently be with Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad
A model of a fetus
Health & Medicine
The South Korean government is reviewing its 1950s abortion ban
Donald Trump and Moon Jae-In sit in large chairs in the White House
Global Politics
For South Korea’s president, the canceled Trump-Kim summit is an embarrassing mess
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shakes hands with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in this undated photo released on May 9, 2018, by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang. The same day, North Korea released three American prisoners, pavin
Global Politics
What Trump’s Iran decision means for North Korean nuclear talks
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watches the ballistic missile test at an unknown location, in this undated file photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang on March 11, 2016.
Conflict & Justice
What it will take to denuclearize North Korea
Positive signs celebrating the Inter-Korean Summit are seen near Seoul Station the day before on April 26, 2018.
Global Politics
North and South Korea come together in historic summit
A scene from the movie "Okja," featuring the title creature — a humongous pet pig.
Culture
A Netflix animal rights movie came at a strange time for South Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un cheers with scientists and technicians after the test-launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile
Conflict
Here’s what it’d look like to have a nuclear North Korea capable of bombing the US
anti-LGBT protesters
Culture
South Korea’s 18th Queer festival starts today, but gay people still face discrimination and hate
Youth unemployment
Economics
As youth unemployment spikes, job seekers keep dreaming