KELLY KASULIS
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Photo caption: A young boy living in a Boston-area homeless shelter rests after staying home sick from school, his mother's empty bed next to him. From my story on working homeless families (read here).

I've been reporting, writing, shooting photo/video and editing since 2012. Below is an incomplete, categorized archive of stories I've written from 2016 to present. For my absolute favorites, please visit my portfolio home page.
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The Koreas
  • South Korea shaken by rising drug use, celebrity scandals (UPI)
  • South Korea cracks down on spy porn chat rooms after K-pop scandal (UPI)
  • South Korean human rights group launches probe into sex assault in sports (UPI)
  • South Korea's third summit Kim Jong Un produces 'totally unprecedented' results (PRI)
  • How South Korea's angry young men formed a powerful new alt-right movement (Mic)
  • I spent a day with North Korean defectors, who lived through hell and want a revolution (Mic)
  • The dangerous mission to smuggle information into North Korea (Mic)
  • South Korea's 18th queer festival starts today, but gay people still face discrimination and hate (PRI)
  •  Outside the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium, business owners lose hope for an Olympic payoff (Mic)
  • ​Urban living at a bargain price — but how small is too small? (Boston Globe)
  • Diplomacy between Kim Jong-un and Trump is unraveling fast — and South Korea's president might suffer (PRI)
  • The intense, deadly struggle to escape North Korea is getting even worse (Mic)
  • What Trump's Iran decision means for nuclear talks (PRI)
  • What it will take to denuclearize North Korea (PRI)
  • North and South Korea come together in historic summit (PRI)
  • Is North Korea's threat to cancel the summit understandable or scheming? (Mic)
  • How religious divisions will shape the Inter-Korean summit (TIME)
  • South Korea tempted North Korea with a $36 billion train network, but can North Koreans even use it? (Mic)
  • What you've read about North Korea might be totally fake (Mic)
  • A new exhibit reveals what apartment life in North Korea is like (Mic)
  • The South Korean government experiences 1.5 million cyber attacks a day, security experts say (Mic)
  • North Korean college coders beat Stanford University in 2016. Here's why that matters. (Mic)​
  • Not everyone is happy about North Korea at the Olympics (Mic)
  • For the first time ever, the Olympic Village will have sexual assault resource centers (Mic)
  • The fascinating history of South Korea's very political Olympics (Mic)
  • What it's like to be named Kim Jong Un in South Korea (Mic)
  • Why aren't more South Koreans going to their own Olympics?
  • South Korea's play culture is a dark symptom of overwork (Quartz)
  • North Korea is more wired than ever — and its citizens will pay the price (Mic)
  • The future of transportation is in Seoul, South Korea (Mic)
  • Here's what it'd look like to have a nuclear north Korea capable of bombing the US (PRI)
  • It's not just nukes. Here's what North Korean cyberwarfare might do. (Mic)
  • A Netflix animal movie came at a strange time in South Korea (PRI)​
2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
  • South Korea's transit is famous, but foreigners are getting stranded and lost at the Olympics (Mic)
  • American hero Michelle Kwan gets emotional when she thinks about how far figure skating has come (Mic)
  • Gus Kenworthy to LGBTQ South Koreans: 'Find your people' (Mic)
  • South Korea's brand-new Olympic bullet train will make Americans jealous (Mic)
  • What you didn't see on TV at the Pyeongchang Olympics' opening ceremony (Mic)
  • Kim Jong Un's sister is in Pyeongchang, but many South Koreans remain skeptical (Mic)
Science, Tech & Transit
  • A life without numbers (Boston Globe)
  • The strange reason deaf children aren't taught sign language (Mic)
  • The 2,500-year-old roots of gender inequality (Boston Globe)
  • Exploring truth and mind control (Boston Globe)
  • South Korea's new Olympic bullet train will make Americans jealous (Mic)
  • Why sad songs say so much (Boston Globe)
  • These scientists are trying to erase memories of fear (Boston Globe)
  • How to be invisible (Boston Globe)
  • The secret, surprisingly human life of ants (Boston Globe)
  • How language influences our perception of time (Mic)
  • ​Why researchers publish their work in fake journals (Mic)
  • How breakfast rewires your brain (Boston Globe)
  • Why coffee makes you overeat sweets (Boston Globe)
  • Trees are capable of defending themselves against fire (Boston Globe)
  • How diet changed the way we look (Boston Globe)
  • How to lose weight? Get your brain under control. (Boston Globe)
  • An embarrassment of human emotions (Boston Globe)
  • The scientific argument against fat shaming (Mic)
  • Amazon sold facial recognition software to law enforcement. Here's why that's dangerous. (Mic)
  • A headache specialist's take on common Migraine remedies (Mic)
Race, Identity & Social Issues
  • When calories consume you (Boston Globe)
  • For Boston's working homeless, a job is not enough (PRI/GroundTruth)
  • The evolution of Asian Barbie (Boston Globe)
  • Why do Hollywood Action movies love car chase scenes in East Asian cities? (Mic)
  • Feeling the squeeze in New England's last old Chinatown (Boston Globe)
  • South Korea's 18th queer festival starts today, but gay people still face discrimination and hate (PRI)
  • Boston's last Korean newspaper (NBC News)
  • This Harvard 'period girl' wants to help the 'menstrual equity movement' (NBC News)​ 
  • Lil Dicky's new music video shamelessly promotes Asian stereotypes (Mic)
  • In the throes of South Korea's #MeToo, it's 'very hard to speak up' (Mic)
  • 8% of all male homicides are committed by police — and black men are most at risk (Mic)
  • It's true — white mass shooters get more sympathy from mass media,​ study says (Mic)mic.com/articles/190339/white-mass-shooters-get-more-sympathy-from-news-media-study-says#.yQEK2C2PT
​Miscellaneous
  • The curious treatment of lesbians under Nazi rule (Boston Globe)
  • Sophisticated shoplifting gangs are costing the U.S. retailers $30 billion a year (Quartz)
  • Airlines dispute claims that they're upticking plane prices during hurricane Irma (Mic)
  • ​"A crazed, gun-obsessed nation" — People around the world reacts to the Las Vegas shooting (Mic)
  • One change in U.S. education that would improve America's relationship abroad (Quartz Ideas)
  • One simple, free hobby that will improve your understanding of the world (Quartz Ideas)
  • YouTube may be teaching someone to spy on you (Boston Globe)
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