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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 time.

2012-10-08 17:03

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.

2012-07-30 17:36

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 and happiness. But I have not started yet. I am just thinking of it. I need a proper topic to write about. I try to hit upon it but I keep drawing a blank. No subject presents itself. Then, suddenly, there is a ring at the door.

2012-07-04 18:10

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 Antarctica. I myself had not heard of it until I read an article written about it in the recent issue of the weekly news magazine, TIME (March 12, 2012).

2012-04-03 17:22

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 tuberculosis during the Korean War when I was just an elementary schoolboy.)

2012-02-03 16:51

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, overlapping, disconnected images that disappear altogether from my memory on my waking. All those vivid dreams that have a coherent story or an episode with memorable scenes in them (so that I can recall clearly after and tell the contents to others) do not visit me anymore. I feel sorry about that and wonder where they have all gone.

2010-11-16 17:19

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 slight hint related to any of them on TV, in newspapers or magazines takes me back immediately to the memorable sites, buildings and monuments I have been to, and makes me relive the good times once again for a while. Happy recollections are the best asset for old men other than money.

2010-10-05 16:48

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.

2007-05-06 18:30

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