The public is invited to a free event “Korea Matters for Hawaii/Hawaii Matters for Korea” on May 3 from 2-4 p.m. at the UH Center for Korean Studies for an update and perspective on the longstanding relationships between Korea and Hawaii and Korea and the United States.
The Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa turns 50 this year. HPR’s Zoe Dym looks into the history of the building and its significance to Korean immigrants.
Nearly a year after his son was last seen being hauled away by Myanmar junta troops, 66-year-old Win Hlaing says he just wants to know whether he is alive. One night last April, a neighbour phoned to tell him his son, Wai Soe Hlaing, a young father who ran a phone shop in Yangon, had been detained in connection with.
Military does not notify relatives when a person is arrested, and prison officials often do not do so when they arrive in jail, so families laboriously search for their relatives by calling and visiting police stations and prisons or relying on accounts from local media or human rights groups