South Korea’s Covid-19 Success Started with Failure for Vox

Photos by @junmichaelpark @seoulphotographer / Earlier this year I drove all over Korea to report and photograph for @voxdotcom’s Pandemic Playbook series, racking up some 1500km (932 miles). The series explores the successes and setbacks of six different countries in their fight against Covid-19. Korea’s strategy to test and trace was …

Overworked Delivery Driver for Nikkei Asia

Photos by @junmichaelpark @seoulphotographer for @nikkeiasia / In January I photographed Mr. Park Seung-hwan, a South Korean delivery driver for CJ Logistics. Logistics and e-commerce companies across the world have seen their profit and value increase exponentially as people have been making more purchases online. However, delivery workers in Asia, the foot soldiers of …

Israeli Bobsledder’s Olympic Dream Is Reborn for NYT

Photos by @junmichaelpark @seoulphotographer for @nytimes / In December, I drove to Pyeongchang, home of the 2018 Winter Olympics. It is also where one of only 16 sliding tracks in the world is located. There, I photographed American-born athlete AJ Edelman, who represented Israel in skeleton at that time. Finishing 28th out …

Life after a Korean Family Reunion for Der Spiegel

Photos by @junmichaelpark @seoulphotographer for @spiegelmagazin / 2020 marked the 70th anniversary since the Korean War broke out. Although an armistice was declared in 1953, the two Koreas technically remain at war until today and continue to live with the aftermath of the conflict. At the time, not only 3 million people — mostly …