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North Koreaโ€™s executions for watching K-dramas, foreign content surge during Covid-19: report

When people were told to stay home during the Covid-19 pandemic, watching K-dramas became a solace for fans of South Koreaโ€™s best-known export around the world. But for North Koreans, it spelled death. A report released by North Korea-focused human rights organisation Transition Justice Working Group (TJWG) on Tuesday showed that the number of people executed for consuming South Korean cultural content โ€“ such as K-dramas, films and K-pop โ€“ and religious practices surged by 250 per cent after...