How would you like gasoline at 3,000 won? How would you like gasoline at 3,000 won per liter? To be honest, it suits me just fine. The only time that our family car is used is on occasional trips to the supermarket or to pick up the kids at learning institutes.
Women of power and the GNP The Grand National Party may be positioning itself to nominate Park Geun-hye as presidential candidate in the upcoming elections.
Doing right thing Recently, I read an article entitled ``Playing a good guy leads to isolation in military by Choi Hee-jae. The main point she makes is how some soldiers in the military, who try and change the current system of taking advantage of lower-ranking so..
And justice for all I have just finished following some of the Casey Anthony trial. I was not shocked but relieved to hear the not guilty verdict for the Florida prosecutors failed to present a legitimate case, failed to provide real evidence and failed to even prove ..
Preserving cultural heritage Korea faces a debate concerning its history. China began a historical controversy by claiming that the ancient Goguryeo Kingdom of Korea should be treated merely as a vassal state of the ancient Chinese dynasty. China refutes the fact that Goguryeo..
Regionalism and school connections Every Sunday evening, I converse with an American on the Internet for an hour. We set no limit on topics. They include education, religion, culture, politics and so on. The man, with the Diplomatic Service Examination ahead, has such an intellectua..
Indifference to foreign professors In mid-October, 2008, The Korea Times reported that a 45-year-old female professor from the United States had suddenly left her tenure-track post at Seoul National University the previous month, without telling anyone that she was leaving, much les..
Im thankful for this Earth I took a trip around Korea recently. I missed the sea so I took an express bus to see the East Coast. It was more beautiful this time than ever before.
Jejus chance for N7W votes 2011 could be characterized as a landmark year, optimistically speaking, not only for the self-governing island province of Jeju to stimulate tourism there but also for all of Korea to upgrade its prestige and brand image. Jeju's dream is to become..
Health care paradise for foreigners I exit the dermatologists office, stunned. Clutching my prescription in hand, I am shocked by the price of my walk-in appointment. Thirty-four hundred won. Roughly three U.S. dollars? That is it?! How can this be?
English worship The English language owes its ubiquity to British power. Advancements in war technology and naval exploration created, for several hundred years, the largest empire ever known. Britains ex-colony, the United States, became a new kind of empire, a..
I am an English speaker, too (2) In this article, I will further elaborate on the article published in The Korea Times on June 9. Particular attention will be paid to the development of English as an international language coupled with the skills required to become a proficient En..
Impossible is nothing, really ``Impossible is nothing is a slogan that the sporting house Adidas introduced several years back. It is actually ``nothing is impossible as we have commonly known it to be.
Building is alive Modern structures are dividers and collectors of a superabundance of static and mobile matter architecturally abstracted as ``loads.
A tale of two rivers About two hours South of Seoul, Buyeo sits on the Baengmagang, a beautiful river that used to look sadly neglected. Tour boats still only sprint around Nakhwaam (The Place Where Flowers Fell), indicating that without Baekje Kingdom maidens committi..
Looking for our own Moms Shin Kyung-sook's book's title ``Please Look After Mom" threw me as I read the novel because it certainly did seem that no one siblings, husband, or relatives was overly concerned about ``Mom."
Five-day school week In a recent article entitled ``Don't dumb down Korean students, David Thiessen writes that if the Korean government permits its students to only go to school for five days a week instead of its normal six, for some reasons all the students in Ko..
