Elise Goes East: How NPR’s New Seoul Bureau Chief Is Using Tumblr to Complement Her Reporting

Last month, about 70 parents who lost their children in the sinking of the Sewol ferry — in which more than 300 people, mostly high school students, were killed — gathered in a central square in Seoul and shaved their heads to protest how the South Korean government has handled the aftermath of the disaster.

Elise Hu, NPR’s new Seoul bureau chief, covered the protests for the network, and interviewed one of the grieving mothers. But perhaps the most poignant part of the interview didn’t make it into Hu’s piece that ran on All Things Considered and NPR’s website.