Anna Jiwon Park has been covering the politics at The Korea Times since the summer of 2024, when she joined the press pool for the Office of the President in Korea. Prior to that, she spent about five years reporting extensively on financial markets, regulatory authorities and the financial industry. She joined The Korea Times in 2019 after spending eight years as a broadcast journalist at Arirang TV, Korea’s leading global broadcaster, covering politics, defense and culture.
Commemorating Liberation Day
Students wave pinwheels made using the Taegeukgi, the Korean national flag, during a visit to the Hwaseong Independence Movement Memorial Hall in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, Wednesday, a day before Liberation Day that marks Korea's independence from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule. Yonhap
By Anna J. Park