Tainan, the city where it all started By Hu Young-supI recently visited Tainan, the oldest city in Taiwan. As the first..
By Hu Young-sup
I recently visited Tainan, the oldest city in Taiwan. As the first..
Fewer apartments please At the beginning of the millennium the most plangent fact of life in Masan was there were no empty apartments.
Rome has come to you A recent Korea Times editorial advised American-retail store Costco to recall the old saying, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." Sage advice, sure, but its expiration date has come and gone. That old saying needs to be updated as, Rome has come..
Reason for government's existence Following the end of Japanese colonial rule, Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world, but it rose to become one of the 15 richest nations in five decades.
Never-ending story The article by Dan Paul Rose issued on Dec. 1l under the headline, A sad option impressed me much. As he mentioned, it is true that Korea's suicide rate among teenagers has regrettably surpassed that of any other country.
Football and racism Football is a harmonious sport. It can potentially transcend the barriers of nationality, race, culture, and religion.
The emperor of Japan The boy who sat one row behind my desk in our elementary school was called Shimizu. He was born on Dec. 23, Showa 8 (1933), the same day the then Crown Prince Akihito, now the emperor, was born.
The American/Korean dream The durable tenant of American mythology is the American dream: lush lawns and well-kept homes, manicured landscaping and gated communities, a crimeless, painless life of upper-middle classdom, of children with good teeth and good schools, husbands..
Those guilty in innocent ladys death A year ago, when I was working at a previous school, a female teachers death left me speechless. I was depressed all day at the sad news. How could she die suddenly with her marriage so close? She should have been walking on air, dreaming of a wo..
Diplomatic procession as world heritage The initiatives to make the Joseon Diplomatic Procession a UNSECO World Cultural Heritage are about to begin in Korea and Japan. Korea has nine world cultural heritage sites and one natural heritage site, and Japan has twelve cultural and four natu..
Leadership and partnership In this 18th presidential election year on Dec. 19, one of the most popular current Internet sites among netizens is entitled leadership and partnership, derived from the Lincoln-Seward relationship in the mid-1800s in the United States.
Voting in the dark In what could turn out to be an embarrassing sideshow to the upcoming Dec. 19 Korean presidential election, the National Election Commission (NEC) has issued strict regulations on how campaigning is to be conducted among the Korean electorate livin..
Hangeul, a uniquely Korean Script It is an immensely positive sign for the nation that a growing number of foreigners are undertaking the study of the Korean language and Hangeul, the Korean alphabet in the wake of Hallyu the Korean Wave, which refers to the spread of Korean..
Not so bright I gave up fishing after making seven visits to a sanguine lake in British Columbia and not catching a single fish. I cannot blame it on the new fishing rod I bought from Walmart and neither can I attribute it to the earthworms that looked juicy to ..
North Korea: confused and confusing Is North Korea heading towards a food crisis in the winter of 2012? Yes! Will it be a great famine like in the 90ies? No! Why so?
What can K-pop learn from Psy? By satirizing standard K-pop tropes in Gangnam Style, Psy may have subverted K-pops chances of making it big in the West, writes John Seabrook in the Annals of Music section of this weeks New Yorker magazine.
Living in a 'Big Data' era Can you guess how much raw information floats around in digital space? Of course not. During the last year alone, for example, it is presumed that the total amount poured into info-communication digital space reached as much as 1.9 zettabytes world..
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