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Jintak Han

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Photojournalist and picture editor in Seoul Former photo editor, @washingtonpost.com Member of @diversifyphoto.bsky.social Trained linguist. 🗣🇰🇷🇺🇸🇯🇵

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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Katie Mettler, a former chair of the Washington Post guild, said: “I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...
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Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The Washington Post's International, Immigration, National Security and Climate journalists – reporters, writers, editors, photographers, videographers – work in concert to produce independent, revelatory reporting that holds power to account wherever in the world it is wielded go.bsky.app/M6MFQsC
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 04/07/2025
I went and saw what it’s like to be swarmed by thousands (millions?) of little bugs in heat so you don’t have to www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Lovebugs vex South Korea, covering hiking trails and sidewalks
The non-native insects have no natural predators and have grown in numbers in recent years. Experts say warming temperatures could be a factor in their proliferation.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/06/2025
Breaking news: A former senior Syrian security official told the FBI that American journalist Austin Tice was killed in 2013 on the orders of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, an account that has not been corroborated by the U.S.
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Former Syrian official claims Assad gave order to kill Austin Tice in 2013
U.S. officials are investigating an uncorroborated account from a high-ranking former Syrian official that American freelance journalist Austin Tice was executed in 2013.
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The Trump administration has cast the undocumented as criminals responsible for California's woes and the ICE protests as an overreaction to basic deportation operations. The reality is very different @mariasacchetti.bsky.social reports www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Fact-checking Trump and Miller’s claims of a ‘migrant invasion’ in California
Federal and state data tell a far different story about migration to California than the political fury unfolding in Washington and on the streets of Los Angeles.
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 06/06/2025
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South Korea elects liberal president after chaotic six months
Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party takes office Wednesday. His first task: Dealing with the economic fallout of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 29/04/2025
I've sunset the redirect account @jintakhan.bsky.social since @bsky.app has largely addressed this issue. It would be nice if the handle continued to redirect to custom domain handles, but at least they are listening.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
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RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Four people are dead and six injured after a highway bridge under construction in Cheonan, South Korea, collapsed on Tuesday, officials said. South Korea has the third-highest fatal workplace injury rate, which is double the OECD average. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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4 killed as South Korean highway bridge collapses during construction
Six others were injured when a highway bridge collapsed in Cheonan, a city south of Seoul. The country has one of the highest workplace fatality rates in the OECD.
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
BREAKING South Korea's Yoon Suk Yeol, accused of leading insurrection last month in botched martial law declaration, is nation's first sitting president to be arrested Andrew Jeong reports from Seoul with @jintakhan.com @myhlee.bsky.social @pietsch.bsky.social wapo.st/4jnUzb1
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South Korean president arrested, accused of leading insurrection
Yoon, who was impeached and suspended from office in December, is the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/01/2025
The Post’s analysis offers evidence that the Palisades Fire started in the area where firefighters had spent hours using helicopters to knock down a blaze six days earlier.
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What caused the Palisades blaze? Visual evidence points to a recent fire nearby
The Post’s analysis offers evidence that the Palisades Fire started in the area where firefighters had spent hours using helicopters to knock down a blaze six days earlier.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
the vibes this week
A meme from Reddit that says in bold letters "It's a beautiful day to yell at God" showing three people shouting at the sun. They are yelling "What the fuck?!", "Come out! We just wanna talk" and "FACE US YOU COWARD".
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
It's no exaggeration to say there is a torrent of news in South Korea right now. Blinken is visiting, while investigators trying to figure out how/when to arrest Yoon, impeachment trials of Yoon and the impeached PM under prep, ongoing Jeju Air investigation, now a North Korean ballistic missile.
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
It was, with little doubt, their worst New Year’s Day ever. Heartbreaking new year's dispatch from our Seoul team from Muan Airport in South Korea, where victims' families are mourning their loved ones as investigators focus on the cause of the deadly crash: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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New year but no end to mourning as South Korea crash victims are identified
Relatives of victims have set up memorials at the airport where the Jeju Air plane went down in the world’s deadliest aviation crash in six years.
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 29/12/2024
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Plane crash-lands at South Korean airport, killing nearly all 181 aboard
The control tower at Muan International Airport warned the Jeju Air plane of a potential bird strike minutes before the crash. Two people were rescued.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/12/2024
Go behind the scenes as “Sesame Street” takes on the emotional health of children — and, with an HBO deal ending, the health of the show itself.
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Inside ‘Sesame Street’ as it fights to survive
Go behind the scenes as “Sesame Street” takes on the emotional health of children — and, with an HBO deal ending, the health of the show itself.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 20/12/2024
Every day we face challenges that the Founders could not have dreamed.
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Gene Park @gene.meme · 12/12/2024
my top 10 games of 2024! www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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Review | The best video games of the year
Our critic’s picks for the best 10 video games of 2024 include some of the best narratives, small-team innovations and mechanical polish in years.
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 12/12/2024
From one impeachment to another: the original photo is from former president Park Geun-hye’s impeachment in 2017. m.mt.co.kr/renew/view_a...
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
This photo circulating this morning as Yoon spoke for the 1st time since declaring martial law, with a wholehearted defense of his actions. The ajusshi-throwing-soju-bottle photo existed, and someone photoshopped Yoon in. Pretty much captures the mood here right now. (Reposting w/correct caption)
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 04/12/2024
Still going with 1.5 hours of sleep
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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Photojournalism News @pjournalismnews.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
We've put together a list of photojournalists from around the world. Their work captures powerful moments and tells stories that matter. PLEASE SHARE ! #photojournalism #journalism #photography #documentary go.bsky.app/7yieZgk
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 30/11/2024
Almost there 👀
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 28/11/2024
From yours truly: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
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Photos show record-breaking South Korea snowfall
Seoul on Thursday saw its heaviest November snowfall in more than 100 years, as traffic snarled and flights ground to a halt.
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 27/11/2024
Follow my colleagues on The Post’s international teams: go.bsky.app/M6MFQsC
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Damn, @theonion.com ads going HARD 😅
The back page of the print edition of The Onion appears to be an honest-to-god ad for Marlboro cigarettes that shows a cowboy riding a horse, smoking, with the text below reading "The easiest way to quit vaping."
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/11/2024
Breaking news: President-elect Donald Trump plans to fire the entire team that worked with special counsel Jack Smith to pursue two federal prosecutions against the former president, according to two individuals close to Trump’s transition.
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Trump plans to fire Jack Smith’s team, use DOJ to probe 2020 election
The plans show how president-elect Donald Trump wants to use the Justice Department to address his own personal grievances.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21/11/2024
so I think their mistake was that they identified (correctly!) that algorithmic timelines are good for Not Very Online People, who are the majority of people online, but Very Online People prefer non-algo TLs and, crucially, they're the ones doing most of the posting, and they bring people with them
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 21/11/2024
Or @bsky.app needs to link the self-verified domain to the corresponding bsky.social handle instead of vacating it so this never happens in the first place. There’s a reason why I used an invite code on myself to make @jintakhan.bsky.social last year.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 20/11/2024
With a fully remote team of just 20 employees, Bluesky has surpassed 20 million users in its first year since opening to the public and is stealing thunder from rivals hundreds of times its size. At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/11/2024
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) has introduced a resolution to ban transgender women from female bathrooms in the Capitol, two weeks after Democrat Sarah McBride of Delaware became the first openly trans person elected to Congress.
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Rep. Mace introduces measure to ban trans women from Capitol’s female bathrooms
The South Carolina Republican’s resolution comes two weeks after the historic election of Democrat Sarah McBride, a trans woman, to Congress.
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 19/11/2024
This seems useful: bsky.app/profile/aimo...
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Beware, this "BBC Breaking News" account is fake. It's not an official BBC News account. If BBC News ever joins this platform, it'll be publicised via official BBC platforms.
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 19/11/2024
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 19/11/2024
Hello everyone! I talk about photos and share random thoughts about random things.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/11/2024
meet the beagle brigade
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A beagle’s dream job: Sniffing food that shouldn’t be packed in luggage
Meet the Beagle Brigade patrolling Dulles International Airport for plants and meat products that travelers are prohibited from bringing into the country.
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 18/11/2024
“Lee” is 100x better than whatever that war photographer movie that came out earlier this year was
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 15/11/2024
in my capacity as a Bluesky employee, posts on Bluesky are called posts. in my capacity as a human... LOL 💀
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 15/11/2024
A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 14/11/2024
South Korea’s annual College Scholastic Ability Test, also known as the Suneung exams, is currently underway.
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 12/11/2024
At least here, I don’t see ChatGPT ads in my feed every other post
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 31/08/2024
Beep boop
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 27/02/2024
🐈🐈🐈
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Welcome to China’s Cat Island, where lucky strays wait for a new home
Ginger cats, tabby cats, cow cats, calico cats — the Shanghai streets are home to them all. Now animal advocates are getting creative to curb feral populations.
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 20/02/2024
I am tired
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/02/2024
South Korea’s demographic crisis is becoming so existential, and government efforts to change it are so ineffective, that businesses are now hunting for solutions.
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How much is a baby worth? A $75,000 bonus, this South Korean firm says.
South Korea’s demographic crisis is becoming so existential, and government efforts to change it are so ineffective, that businesses are now hunting for solutions.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13/02/2024
The vow is “til death do us part.” But for former Dutch prime minister Dries van Agt and his wife, Eugenie, the aim was to leave this life the same way they had spent the past seven decades — together. The couple, both 93, died “hand in hand” earlier this month.
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‘Duo euthanasia’: In the Netherlands, a famous couple chooses to die together
Former prime minister Dries van Agt and his wife, Eugenie, are among a growing number of Dutch couples electing to legally end their lives together.
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Jintak Han @jintakhan.com · 13/02/2024
Some dispatches from my trip last month to Taiwan: www.instagram.com/p/C3QsL1CSCh...
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Jintak Han (한진탁) on Instagram: "FROM THE ARCHIVES, TAIPEI, Taiwan — The independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party holds an election rally for current vice president Lai Ching-te’s 2024 p...
44 likes, 1 comments - jhancamera on February 12, 2024: "FROM THE ARCHIVES, TAIPEI, Taiwan — The independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party holds..."
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