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Jiwon Song

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South Korean writer whose adult languages are Japanese and English. Tokyo is my second home. 早稲田大学OB ＆ 元渋谷区民。ワセオケと渋谷交響楽団第１バイオリン。

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Jiwon Song’s Biography

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A trilingual journalist with a focus on the Korean Peninsula (diplomacy and economy).
Korean as a mother tongue, English & Japanese as a working language at professional level.

Articles featured on The Guardian, The Korea Herald, and NK News.

Jiwon Song’s Journalist Portfolio

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Online podcast platform 'Podbbang' rises as alternative media

Online podcast platform 'Podbbang' rises as alternative media

The recent Choi Soon-sil scandal that involves some of Korea's politicians, business moguls and media pundits…

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[Super Rich] Five chaebol families make up one-third of top 100 richest in Korea

[Super Rich] Five chaebol families make up one-third of top 100 richest in Korea

Unhealthy ties between Korean conglomerates and the government have long been cited as a factor that prevents…

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Breakdown of Hyundai Motor chief's sons-in-law

Breakdown of Hyundai Motor chief's sons-in-law

Gil Sung-jin, son of Korea's veteran TV personality Gil Yong-woo, officially joined the family of one of Sout…

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'E-mart warns against employee for wearing president-bashing badge'

'E-mart warns against employee for wearing president-bashing badge'

E-mart, the biggest supermarket chain under Korea's retail giant Shinsegae, is being accused of carrying out …

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[Super Rich]Tracing back Hanmi Pharmaceutical's ups and downs

[Super Rich]Tracing back Hanmi Pharmaceutical's ups and downs

Hanmi Pharmaceutical, once an 8 trillion won ($6.76 billion) deal maker with global pharma partners, is curre…

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Car importers fear revival of trade barriers after Trump's victory

Car importers fear revival of trade barriers after Trump's victory

Both local carmakers and importers here are increasingly concerned about the possible revival of trade barrie…

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Articles

Damp-heat stable and efficient perovskite solar cells and mini-modules with tBP-free hole-transporting layer

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By Dong Suk Kim, Yun Shin, Dong Gyu Lee, Jiwon Song Verified
| Royal Society of Chemistry Verified
Damp-heat stable and efficient perovskite solar cells and mini-modules with tBP-free hole-transporting layer In spiro-OMeTAD-based hole-transporting layer (HTL) protocols, 4-tert-butylpyridine (tBP) constitutes an indispensable component; however, its inclusion engenders substantial detrimental ramifications, precluding realizing thermal stability. Here, a tBP-free spiro-OMeTAD approach was successfully devised by substituting ethylene carbonate (EC) electrolyte for tBP.
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Fatty Acid Binding Protein 4 Could Be a Linking Biomarker Between Periodontitis and Systemic Diseases

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By Jiwon Song Verified, Soo-Min Ok, Eun-Young Kwon, Hyun-Joo Kim
| MDPI
All articles published by MDPI are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. No special permission is required to reuse all or part of the article published by MDPI, including figures and tables. For articles published under an open access Creative Common CC BY license, any part of the article may be reused without permission provided that the original article is clearly cited. For more information, please refer to https://www.mdpi.com/openaccess.
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South Koreans are starkly divided over North Korea's nuclear threat

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By Foster Klug Verified, Jiwon Song Verified, Jae Hong Verified
| The Argus-Press Verified
POHANG, South Korea (AP) — There are two Koreas, North and South. But there's also more than one South Korea, with the nation split into camps with polar opposite views on the danger posed by the nuclear-armed neighbor to the north. This division in South Korean sentiment has lasted through a tumultuous history of war, dictatorship, poverty and, in recent decades, head-spinning though unevenly distributed economic growth.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

The London Olympics news producer at Seoul Broadcasting System(intern). I was a member of special news producing team at Sports Desk.

How is social media changing news?

Provides troves of un-categorized choppy information.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Stieg Larsson. He inspired me to fly to Sweden to live for a year.