[2] He decided to spend a year in South Korea upon graduation, and like many Westerners, his first job there was teaching English, in his case in an academy in Gimhae, Gyeongsang Province.
[7] Tudor is also co-founder and CEO of Kokkiri, South Korea's most popular meditation app, in partnership with Haemin, a Buddhist monk and author of The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down (멈추면 비로소 보인 것들).
[3] North Korea Confidential (Tuttle, 2015) was co-authored with Reuters journalist James Pearson, and was named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist.
The authors' goal was to peel back the curtain on daily life in North Korea, dispelling myths perpetuated in the Western world.
The court said in a statement that journalists Son Hyo Rim (Dong-A Ilbo newspaper) and Yang Ji Ho (Chosun Ilbo newspaper), "committed [the] hideous crime of seriously insulting the dignity of the DPRK by using dishonest contents carried by a propaganda book ..."[14] The court did not mention the authors or the other numerous media outlets that covered the book's release.
Adapted from a long running column in NK News by the same name, this book uses firsthand accounts from North Korean defectors to provide insight into life in the "Hermit Kingdom"[15] In addition to his work for The Economist, Tudor has also contributed to the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Private Eye, JoongAng Ilbo and Hankyoreh 21.