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Korea24 – 2022.02.15. (Tuesday) News Briefing: The 22-day official presidential campaign period has now kicked off. Street rallies and ad campaigns have been launched in a final push to woo voters. Candidates have hit the streets to rally support as well. (Eunice KIM) In-Depth News Analysis: In the US, earlier this month, the Adoptee Citizenship Act passed the lower house of Congress, aimed at helping intercountry adoptees who have been unable to acquire US citizenship as adults. There are reportedly tens of thousands of adoptees in America who do not have citizenship, which means that they could be denied medical benefits, government aid and even face deportation. To learn more about the bill, attorney Gregory Luce, the founder of the Adoptee Rights Law Center, joins us on the line. Korea Trending with Jung Ye-won: 1. A Korean American woman in New York was killed by a man who followed her into her apartment early Sunday. She was the latest victim in a string of attacks against Asian people in the city in recent months. (집까지 따라와 30대 여성 살해한 노숙자…CCTV에 그대로 찍혔다 '뉴욕 발칵') 2. CCTV footage from a daycare center revealed that a 19-month-old girl, who was suspected to have contracted COVID-19, had been quarantined out in the cold in the balcony area of the building. ("미열 있네" 혹한에 19개월 여아 1시간 넘게 베란다 격리한 어린이집) 3. The eldest member of Team Korea’s short track team, Kwak Yoon-gy, has been looking to “leave a trace” at the Beijing WinterOlympics, both on and off the ice. (웃음 선물 ‘빵빵’ 33세 맏형 곽윤기 “마지막 선물은 金”) Touch Base in Seoul: Known as ‘the first classical vocalist of Fiji’, Baritone Soko left the Pacific island state over a decade ago and arrived on the shores of Korea to pursue his dream of becoming a classically trained singer. He joins us in the studio to tell us about his journey to Korea, and what it meant to win the KBS TV singing contest ‘Immortal Songs (불후의명곡)’. Morning Edition Preview with Mark Wilson-Choi: - Tomorrow’s Korea Times features a piece by Jon Dunbar about Team ORBY, the first South Korean team to appear on the Discovery Channel’s Battlebots. - In tomorrow’s Korea Herald, Ko Jun-tae files a report asking, “How much does an election cost?”