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Tue, December 5, 2023 | 14:38

Call of mountain

Call of mountain

At 10 a.m. on Nov. 3, a special funeral service took place at Seoul National University Hospital for Park Young-seok, one of the world's best and greatest mountaineers Korea has ever produced, and for his two fellow veteran climbers. It was observed without their bodies.

2011-11-25 16:56

``Free as a bird" is a phrase I like to murmur to myself whenever I see a bird flying in the sky.

Jong-eun2011-11-04 16:36

Going to a concert

Going to a concert

Those who know that I renew my subscription to the KBS Symphony Orchestra every year and receive its program every month by mail may well presume that I have a very fine ear, ardent love and deep appreciation for classical music.

2011-06-21 17:17

What are you doing?

For some period immediately after my retirement from university I had to confront an uncomfortable question: "What are you doing?” It came to me with a new sound and meaning.

Jong-eun2011-04-29 21:17

For the Last Time

Enveloped with special emotion, recollection and pathos, I am currently reading a book for the very last time. It is a collection of English essays, entitled, ``The English Familiar Essay," edited by William F. Bryan and Ronald S. Crane, professors of English at Northwestern University.

2010-04-23 15:56

Parting With Readers Digest

This morning, to my mild surprise, I realized that I have not read ``Reader's Digest" for quite a long time. Hurriedly, I checked the pile of old issues in the corner of my study and discovered that I have not received a copy in more than six months. I was puzzled at first, but soon realized that my annual subscription expired last May and I had not renewed it.

2009-11-23 17:22

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

For the first time in a long while, one day last week I went to downtown Seoul and dropped in at the Kyobo Book Center. Walking to the place after getting off the subway train at City Hall I got confused by the sea-change that has been made to the city during that time.

2009-10-16 15:56

The Little Mermaid

On returning home from a weeklong sightseeing trip to four Northern European countries this summer, including Denmark, what I felt like doing first, and actually did, was to take my anthology of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales from the bookshelf and reread ``The Little Mermaid," among others.

2009-08-05 19:04

A Tale of Two Magazines

As a long and faithful reader and subscriber of two internationally famous weekly news magazines, ``Time'' and ``Newsweek'', I find myself having become somewhat critical and choosy about reading them recently.

Jong-eun2009-06-23 17:52

From Need to Choice

Although I have thrown away several of them, I still have four fountain pens in store at home. Each one has its own sentimental value for me.

2009-04-05 15:52

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