Roy W. Howard 2008

This blog is the record of the Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition media tour through South Korea and Japan. The nine winners of the award, college journalists from across the country, will be updating this blog from the trip with written reports and photographs as they travel through Seoul, Osaka, Kobe and Tokyo. Stay tuned for up-to-the-minute news and reporting.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Media Frenzy Over Suspect In Vehicle




Watch the astonishing video from the BBC of reporters in Tokyo attacking the car with stabbing suspect inside.

Entire Cabinet Offers to Resign

Posted just nine minutes ago on NYTimes.com...

S. Korean Cabinet Offers to Quit After Beef Protests
by CHOE SANG-HUN

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s entire cabinet offered to resign on Tuesday as President Lee Myung-bak struggled to find a breakthrough in the biggest political crisis to face his young government, one set off by fears that an agreement to reopen markets to American beef could expose the public to mad cow disease. Read more...

21,000 Police and Countless More Protesters Take To Seoul Streets



Here's an article from The New York Times, including podcast, about the protests in Seoul over the move to resume suspended imports of American beef.

If you notice the Washington-style building in the photo, our hotel is just behind it--how exciting!