No complete victory Samsung and Apple are engaged in a series of fierce legal battles over the patent rights for new products. Each has developed new but similar electronic gadgets related to mobile (smart) phones and pushed them into the market almost at the same tim..
To love an unlovely painting Weeks ago, I was taking a cursory look at the headlines of the daily newspaper (The Chosun-Ilbo, July 14) delivered in the morning as usual, when my eyes fell on a small article about a sale of a painting at Sotheby's auction in New York last May.
A ring at the door I am sitting at my desk in my apartment room all by myself. It is quiet and I feel melancholic and lonely. I want to write something. It has been a long time since I wrote my last essay, and I miss writing. It is a process in which I find comfort a..
A lecture on nature Have you ever heard of Lake Vostok? Probably not, because it is not on the ordinary map of the world, nor is it on the surface of the earth. It is under the earth. To be more exact and specific, it lies two miles (3.2 km) below the solid ice of the..
Acceptance Recently I find myself often being left alone at home. All my three children have grown up, got married and left us (me and my wife). My mother who had been living with me passed away years ago at the venerable age of 91. (My father died early of t..
Old man and dreams One of the things I miss most in my advanced age is the good and sweet dreams that I used to have through my youthful years. In fact, I do not have any dreams at all these days in my sleep. If there be any, they are just some jumbled, blurring, ove..
Remembering Helsinki I feel greatly blessed as well as privileged to have ever visited some of the great foreign cities in the world in my life. Often I find myself recalling them one after another in spite of myself when I am alone in solitude. Any brief mention or sl..
Norwegian Royal Couple to Visit Seoul The visit by Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette Marit to Korea from May 8-11 signals a strengthening of economic ties between Korea and Norway.
