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'I cannot live without you'
I cannot live without you. This is the title of a drama which ran in Korea recently. I cannot say on which days it ran but cable channels have the uncanny ability to collect them and throw them at you over the weekend.

Gratitude for my guardian angels
A recent article, ``Guardian Angels, written by Kim Ae-ran and published in The Korea Times moved me to think about myself.

Stress and healing
There are two interrelated words for mind control we often hear from mass media.

Race in Korea: bad, but better?
Shin Chul-ho's "Racial discrimination in hiring teachers" reminded me of a pleasant Korean-American teacher I worked with in the 1990s who said she was delighted to meet me

Red wire, blue wire
Imagine a dream: You are a bomb demolition expert seated in front of an eyeball- popping contraption in the basement suite of a house at Jane and Finch in North York near Toronto. The neighboring area has been evacuated for three hundred meters. Ne..

Means cannot justify ends
As the frost of winter arrives, the maple leaves wither and fall. I watched quite a few students stride along corridors within a school wearing North Face winter coats. I have also seen a TV report that Korean teenagers wear them like a second unif..

Racial discrimination in hiring teachers
Once I co-taught English with a Korean-Canadian woman teacher. As the expiration of her term of service was approaching, I had to employ a new native English teacher. I asked the principal what type of native speaker's background he wanted. He pref..

Odd jobs and idle thoughts
In good American terminology Im a homemaker and a grandmother. I have been doing domestic consumption work for over 50 years, which included preparing meals and washing dishes three times almost every day, seven days a week, plus child and grandc..

Qualifications of educators
Many, many years ago when I was in undergrad school, my classmates and I would often talk about how the real learning would begin once we graduated and obtained our pieces of paper.

Guardian angels
Have you ever felt that somebody is constantly praying for you? How consoling it is to feel that somebody is praying for me and taking good care of me beyond time and space!

Bose and Einstein
One of the best - known analogies to explain how the Higgs Boson mechanism works was proposed in 1993 by David Miller, a physicist at University College London.

Why Obama won
Math. At its coldest and most distilled truth, President Barack Obama defeated Governor Mitt Romney by sheer numbers.

Harvard admissions process

Cautious approach to wind energy
The capital is awash with advertisements promoting wind energy featuring predictable idyllic depictions of rolling green hills, trees and sunshine.

It ain't over till it's over
Jesse Jackson, the sometimes preacher and sometimes U.S. presidential contender, said at an Atlanta convention in 1988, It aint over till its over. Even then, it aint over. I really like how that sounds.

Cutting my losses
Dont tell my supervisor but Im calling in sick Wednesday. I heard the margin in Tuesdays presidential election will be so tight there may not be a clear winner until the wee hours of the morning. This Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney smackdown is ..

Clash of two languages
A Japanese professor was introducing himself to his new class at a university in Seoul.

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