Mark Lippert

Reporting from a Seoul cat cafe, one of the many themed cafes in Japan and Korea.

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Reporter's Notebook: Settling In In Seoul

4:29pm December 29, 2015

by Elise Hu

NPR opened a South Korea bureau in March. Correspondent Elise Hu offers her take on the wonder and the wackiness of life and journalism in East Asia.

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U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert, seen here greeting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in May, was attacked during a breakfast function in March.

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South Korean Man Who Slashed U.S. Ambassador Gets 12-Year Sentence

10:07am September 11, 2015

by Bill Chappell

U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert was at a performing arts center in Seoul preparing to give a speech on relations between the U.S. and the two Koreas when he was attacked.

U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert waves as he leaves a hospital in Seoul, where he recovered from being attacked by a knife-wielding South Korean nationalist.

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U.S. Ambassador Leaves Hospital After Attack In South Korea

1:48pm March 10, 2015

by Bill Chappell

"I'm walking, talking, holding my baby, hugging my wife, so I just feel really good," U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert says as he is released from a Seoul hospital days after he was attacked.