Better recognize horrific truth In his Aug. 11 piece ``Obama insensitive to mark Hiroshima anniversary, Dan K. Thomasson's attack on President Obama for sending the U.S. ambassador to Japan neglects to recognize the horrific truth that the U.S. dropped two nuclear bombs over ci..
Disingenuous at best This is in response to Paul Kokoski's Aug. 10 letter, "Undermining morality."
Legal abortion Legal abortion, a literal crime, should be authorized until the 24th week of the pregnancy. That is how the Bioethics Committee of Catalonia solicited in a study carried out by the Catalan Parliament, which appears after the unchained controvers..
Undermining morality Aug. 6 and Aug. 9 marked the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which brought a sudden end to the long World War II. We might have expected that such expressions of mans inhumanity to man ultimately might have conferre..
To improve Koreas band value Although South Korea has produced internationally-recognized electronics products and automobiles, people all over the globe have no idea about Korea or Korean culture. Some may have an idea, but it can be about North Korea, rather than South Korea..
Factual inaccuracy about Turkey I am writing to bring to your kind attention the factual inaccuracy that appeared in an Aug. 3 article on page 12 of The Korea Times in response to the description of Turkey.
Korea University program The glowing front page extended coverage of Korea Universitys Summer school program and its commitment to foreign students is deceptive.
Korean food I read a Korea Times article on chief editorial writer Lee Chang-sups National branding is not a big thing on July 23rd. I 100 percent agree with the article. I am in the United States of America. There is a very big Korean-American population he..
Corporal punishment I have worked at a number of institutes and also a university in korea
Frankenbooks: new term for e-books As someone who enjoys reading on paper, whether it be a newspaper or a magazine or a book, I have coined the term ``frankenbooks" as a new word for e-books and e-readers.
Are cosmetics good for skin? I traveled to Europe recently and was very surprised because many of women didn't wear makeup. In Korea, most women put on makeup every day.
Ordaining women as priests I commend the Vatican for reaffirming the attempted ordination of women as a ``grave crime.At first sight it may seem that the demands of radical feminism in favor of a total equality between men and women are extremely noble and, at any rate, pe..
To make schools safer This is in response to a July 13 article, ``New drug test plan angers native English teachers, published.
Accredited programs in Canada I am writing after reading a July 15 article, ``Homestay students in Canada face greater risk of sex abuse, and receiving many e-mails from members of Languages Canada.
Bad referees at World Cup Some of the games in the World Cup in South Africa were unfair, because the referees were bad.
Screen-reading is changing the picture Neuroscientists and academics still do not know just how different reading on paper is from reading on a screen, but public discussions in South Korea and overseas are getting interesting and heated.
Abstinence and fidelity The fight against AIDS is still on. At the global level, 33 million people are estimated to be living with this disease. In 2007, there were 2.7 million infected, and 2.1 million of them died from the virus.
