Seoul, Mexico City ink pact on strategic, mutually beneficial relationship
The mayors of Seoul and Mexico City agreed Tuesday to elevate the friendly relationship between the two capitals to a strategic and mutually beneficial one. Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon met with Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum at her office in the Mexican capital and signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation and exchanges based on the […]
Korean man who died in Mexico returned with missing organs
The body of a Korean man who died in Mexico has been returned to his family ― without his brain, stomach and heart. Mexican authorities claim that the man, 35, surnamed Kim, died of natural causes despite a scuffle with other people just before his death. His widow fears that someone is trying to cover […]
Dear Mexican president-elect Lopez Obrador
Please remember Korean woman Hyun-jung Yang, who is unfairly detained in Santa Martha prison. Dear Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the Mexican people, may happiness and glory always be with you. I hope that Mexico will become one of the top countries in the world as well as in Latin America during your six […]
A Korean woman’s prison letter in Mexico
Somebody please listen to my story. My name is Yang, Hyunjung, I am 38 years old, and I have spent the last 8 months in a Mexican prison. I am charged with human trafficking and procuring prostitution, a charge more serious than murder in Mexico, and awaiting trial. My actual job is designing clothes for […]
Enrique Pena Nieto Elected as Mexican President
Enrique Pena Nieto, presidential candidate for the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), left, speaks to supporters accompanied by his wife Angelica Rivera at the party’s headquarters in Mexico City, early Monday, July 2, 2012. Mexico’s old guard sailed back into power after a 12-year hiatus Sunday as the official preliminary vote count handed a victory to […]
Rail Tracks Damaged by Earthquake
Workers inspect the damaged rail tracks of the subway caused by an 7.6 magnitude earthquake at Mexico City, capital of Mexico on March 20, 2012. Despite the damage, there was no victims, according to the authorities. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said that an 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit Oaxaca on Mexico’s Pacific coast on Tuesday. <Photo: Xinhua/Carlos Castillo> news@theasian.asia
Mexicans Enjoy ‘Rosca de Reyes’
People gather around a large-size traditional sweet bread Rosca de Reyes, or Three Kings Bread at the Zocalo Square in downtown Mexico City, capital of Mexico, on Jan. 4, 2012. A 9,375-kilogram-weight and 720-meter-long Rosca de Reyes made by some Mexican bakers was shown in the square and cut into 20,000 pieces for people to […]
“Don’t Trade Your Pets”
An activist from an animal rights organization protests against the purchase and sale of animals in Mexico City, capital of Mexico, Jan. 3, 2012. (Xinhua/Claudio Cruz) (dtf)
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