Jason Strother
Reporter Jason Strother is a freelance multimedia journalist who’s reported from both sides of the Korean peninsula since moving to Seoul in 2006.
Reporter Jason Strother is a freelance multimedia journalist who has reported from both sides of the Korean peninsula since moving to Seoul in 2006.
He makes frequent work trips around Asia and has also filed from Brazil.
He got his start in the business as a producer at a 24-hour cable news channel in the Bronx, but always wanted the life of a foreign correspondent.
He is also an adjunct professor of journalism at Montclair State University in his home state of New Jersey.
North Korea to reopen its borders for the coronavirus vaccine
The pandemic appears to have further cut off North Korea from the rest of the world. But now, the country is set to receive nearly 2 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine through the COVAX program.
South Korea’s baby boost for married couples excludes nontraditional families
South Korean activists renew call for deinstitutionalizing people with disabilities amid coronavirus
To quell COVID-19 outbreak, South Korea bans seating at big cafés
Typhoon Bavi strikes North Korea amid pandemic lockdown
South Koreans are blaming a controversial church for new COVID-19 outbreak
Health authorities say Sarang Jaeil Church and its outspoken pastor are at the epicenter of South Korea’s second-largest COVID-19 outbreak since the pandemic started. About 3,400 of the church’s members have been tested and about 20% have contracted the coronavirus as of Thursday.
Bringing down barriers for travelers with disabilities in Korea
A South Korean globe-trotter and wheelchair user advocates for more accessible tourism.
Seoul mayor’s progressive legacy called into question after his death
South Koreans are mourning the death of Park Won-soon, a prominent liberal politician and presidential hopeful. But the Seoul mayor’s apparent suicide coincides with reports that he was under investigation for sexual harassment.
How violent protests in South Korea became a thing of the past
Protests in South Korea were once characterized by intense, often violent confrontations between protesters and police. Today, those kinds of fierce standoffs in the country seem to be a thing of the past.
America’s BLM protests find solidarity in South Korea
On Saturday, around 100 demonstrators walked through downtown Seoul in protest of the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in what was perhaps the first showing of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the nation.
South Korea’s coronavirus contact tracing puts LGBTQ community under surveillance, critics say
Health officials gain access to the cellphone GPS records, credit card transactions and transportation history of anyone who tests positive for COVID-19, and then they release much of that information to the public. Many in country's LGBTQ community say they feel singled out.
South Korean high school seniors are eager to return to the classroom
South Korean high school seniors will be the first students to return to the classroom after the coronavirus delayed the start of the academic year. For many, the pandemic didn’t just disrupt their education; it cast their entire futures into uncertainty.
South Korean movie fans watch the big screen from behind their windshields
Despite the box office slump during the pandemic, South Korea’s drive-in theaters have experienced a recent surge in customers.
Millions of South Korean voters head to the polls amid COVID-19 pandemic
On election day, at least 29 million South Koreans lined-up at polling places to cast ballots. Quarantine restrictions were temporarily lifted and polling stations were kept open to allow some 13,000 recent returnees to briefly leave their homes and vote.
South Korea flattened the curve. Now what?
While an increasing number of countries are tightening their borders in an effort to halt further infections, South Korea is taking a different approach. But a rise in imported cases threatens to roll back some of the country’s progress.