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Sean Na

Sean Na

Sean Na is a reporter based in Seoul.

Park Yoon-ju found out in February she was a victim of a deepfake porn ring.

‘Only hit when I saw the photos’: How Park was caught in deepfake porn ring

Park was shocked when she found out who had doctored her image, as South Korea grapples with a digital sex crime crisis that has even seen brothers target their sisters.

  • Lisa Visentin and Sean Na

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Kim Yong-bok, president of the Moran livestock market’s merchants association, has run a dog meat restaurant for 30 years.

The South Korean market where you can still buy dog meat, but not for long

South Korea’s dwindling dog meat trade will officially be banned in 2027 in a triumph for animal rights groups. But for those whose livelihoods depended on it, it has been a bitter pill to swallow.

  • Lisa Visentin and Sean Na
Kim’s letters to Trump suggest a young, insecure man who is grateful for being taken seriously by the most powerful man in the world.

Rubbish balloons, K-pop and ghostly wailing: How life’s changing on Korean border

For Cho Yong-hae and his neighbours, ghostly wailing sounds blasting their village have finally stopped. But for the West, the problem is only growing louder.

  • Lisa Visentin and Sean Na
South Korean entrepreneur Kim Dong-woo.

South Korea made everyone younger, but it can’t reverse its ageing population

Kim Dong-woo was 31 last week. Now, the Seoul-based entrepreneur is 29.

  • Eryk Bagshaw and Sean Na
Seoul Halloween tragedy

‘Absolutely avoidable’: How the Seoul crowd crush unfolded

Police did not respond to 11 calls warning them that Saturday’s crowded festivities were becoming deadly.

  • Eryk Bagshaw and Sean Na
Policeman at the site of the stampede.

Australian killed in Halloween stampede in Seoul, DFAT confirms

Consular officials are also assisting a number of other Australians who attended the event, DFAT says.

  • Megan Gorrey, Chris Barrett and Sean Na
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The belongings of victims are seen at the scene of a deadly stampede in Seoul, South Korea.

‘I should not have come here’: Witnesses reveal chaotic scenes from Halloween crush

Dozens of people are still missing in the aftermath of the disaster in Seoul, and the Australian embassy has launched urgent enquiries.

  • Chris Barrett and Sean Na
The ad based on discrimination against men by South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol.

‘It’s biased towards women’: the angry young men on the front line of Korea’s battle of the sexes

Anti-feminists have called women “kimchi girls” – slang that suggests their boyfriends pay for them. Older women have been labelled “mum-roaches”.

  • Eryk Bagshaw and Sean Na
Yoon Suk Yeol, the presidential candidate of the main opposition People Power Party.

Yoon Suk-yeol elected South Korea’s next President

Personal attacks obscured otherwise substantial policy differences in a campaign that revealed a populace bitterly divided about the best way forward.

  • Eryk Bagshaw and Sean Na
Yoon rallies the crowd in Seoul.

Throwing uppercuts, ‘K-Trump’ candidate divides South Korea on gender

Yoon Suk-yeol’s signature move is bold, angry and ambitious. The front-runner populist has vowed to abolish the Gender Equality Ministry.

  • Eryk Bagshaw and Sean Na