Max Kim

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Reporter, The New York Times

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Reporting and writing for @nytimes. Ex-@latimes correspondent in Seoul. Tips: max.kim@nytimes.com | bluesky: @maxsoeunkim.bsky.social

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This company delivers packages faster than Amazon, but workers pay the price

South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang uses AI to promise almost-instant delivery. But speed comes with troubl…

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Young Koreans are echoing r/WallStreetBets in their war against short sellers

How /r/WallStreetBets set off a similar movement in South Korea

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A South Korean e-commerce titan falters, as rapid growth hurts its workforce

Jeon Woo-oak has the numb, strained aspect of someone forced to grieve in the public eye. It has been months …

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The cost of convenience

South Korea’s Coupang promised to make e-commerce lightning fast. A Covid-19 outbreak at one of its warehouse…

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Seoul's Radical Experiment in Digital Contact Tracing

A dispatch from the frontlines of South Korea's contact tracing system during the early months of the pandemi…

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How greed and corruption blew up South Korea's nuclear industry

Seoul had a solution to the world’s energy problems. Then everything went wrong. For MIT Technology Review's …

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Video games are dividing South Korea

Arguments over whether game addiction is real have led to feuds between government departments and a national…

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