Contacts for glasses

The World

Lim Hyeon Ju is a South Korean news anchor. And, like many female anchors in South Korea, she always wore contact lenses in front of the camera — while her male colleagues felt free to wear glasses. But Lim decided to change that. Host Marco Werman speaks about this with the BBC’s Su Min Hwang.

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