
This is how South Korea is dealing with the dark side of its success-obsessed culture
Park Cho-bin wants to do something unusual in South Korea—take some time off.
Isabella is a reporter and editor based in Hong Kong. She writes about Hong Kong and China, but also keeps an eye out on Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. She previously spent almost six years at the Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, writing about everything from finance to commodities to Hong Kong's political drama. She is a student of a fair few languages, to varying degrees of fluency.
Park Cho-bin wants to do something unusual in South Korea—take some time off.
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