KoreaTimes(160) - Today`s Column, Opinion, page 7

The Korea Times

Site Map E-paper Subscribe Register LogIn
Site Map E-paper Subscribe Register LogIn

Opinion

Today`s Column

Fri, August 7, 2020 | 02:26

Korea can host global golf match

Korea can host global golf match

I spent considerable time over the last three nights staying up till dawn to watch the Ryder Cup. I never left home but the jet lag is huge. The golf competition took place in Chicago time this year. Thus, in Seoul, it began when we normally fall asleep.

2012-10-05 16:54

Education reforms stall in California

There's a tale behind the death of California's proposed school funding allocation overhaul. The measure, Assembly Bill 18, was one of the casualties as Gov. Jerry Brown waded through hundreds of bills from the hectic, final hours of the 2012 legislative session.

2012-10-04 16:47

In Iran, sanctions begin to bite

The West's stiffened sanctions against Iran are apparently starting to bite.

2012-10-04 16:45

Why the United Nations endures

In a major address at the United Nations on Tuesday, President Barack Obama emphasized challenges of violence, especially but not exclusively in the Islamic world. Equally important, he reconfirmed the durable importance of the U.N.

2012-10-04 16:43

North Korea defies reform predictions

North Korea defies reform predictions

Pyongyang once again disappointed those predicting it was about to change its ways. For months, experts and major media organizations have proclaimed imminent economic reform, even declaring that “North Korea has virtually abandoned the planned economy.” An unprecedented second Supreme People’s Assembly this year could only mean codification of free market principles, or so i...

2012-10-04 16:41

Ballot measures test whether voters are tough on crime and taxes

California's voters turned sharply to the right on taxes and crime during the 1970s, and the two visceral issues dominated its politics for the next two generations.

2012-10-03 16:40

Getting the story straight on Libya

In the public relations business there is said to be a maxim for handling disasters: Get the information out right; get it out first and get it out your way.

2012-10-03 16:39

A one-question campaign quiz on Iran

The first "Debate Week" of the fall campaign has interrupted the traditional majesty of our democratic presidential selection process, in which accusations and insults have been flung, yet again, with the frequency (if not accuracy) of meatballs at a frat-house food fight.

2012-10-03 16:37

‘Double tap’

‘Double tap’

“Double tap” is what mobsters do when they put somebody down. One bullet in the heart, one in the head. That way they stay down. It’s practically standard operating procedure among hitmen.

2012-10-03 16:36

Your license plate may be an open book

A car says a lot about its owner, perhaps a lot more than the owner might suspect.

2012-10-02 18:04

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Top 10 Stories

DARKROOM

Code of Ethics

Copyright