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Mon, August 26, 2019 | 03:08

Separate lives of Koreans and foreigners

Where do foreign residents in Seoul hang out at 3 a.m.? And what about Koreans? A survey on the location and movement of more than 10 million people, including 270,000 foreigners, was conducted for one week in February and March of 2017, designed to find out their living and moving patterns.

2018-11-16 17:37

Biggest donor active at age 95

“Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown,” Jesus said to people. This is probably because people think the prophet does not do what people have heard he did in another town. Please forgive me if my quotation of Luke 4:24 is off the orthodox interpretation.

2018-10-19 17:41

Heritage project with North Korea

At the recent pre-summit working level meeting held in Gaeseong, they agreed to carry out an eighth joint survey and historical preservation effort at Manwoldae between today and Dec. 27 this year.

2018-09-26 17:24

Visit to Tongdo Temple

My recent visit to the Tongdo Temple in southeastern Korea seemed to be more than five decades overdue. The head family of the Gyeongju Kim clan, my family clan, has lived just 40 kilometers from Yangsan City, where this 1,300-year-old temple stands.

2018-08-24 17:08

1919-2019: time for new narratives

The year 1919 marked a historical turning point in Korea. It was the 10th year of Japanese colonial rule. Emperor Gojong died suddenly on Jan. 21, 1919, at today's Deoksu Palace. Rumors and information from reliable sources pointed to Japan as the mastermind of his murder by poisoning.

2018-07-29 17:23

'The Korean Mind' revised

Reading my column of Aug. 29, 2015, I find my article was a quite undiplomatic and blunt criticism of the unthinkable and unpardonable mistakes made in “The Korean Mind,” published in 2012 by Tuttle Publishing.

2018-07-01 17:51

What to do in unified Korea?

The on-again off-again June 12 talks between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump are just eight days away. The venue is chosen and the main agenda is under discussion.

2018-06-03 18:00

US and Korea: then and now

If things had been normal, ex-president Park Geun-hye would have visited Washington D.C. in the spring of 2013 to open the Korean Legation Museum on Logan Circle on her first presidential visit to America.

2018-05-04 17:41

Stable national leadership

“History never looks like history when you are living through it.” This is a statement by American educator John W. Gardner.

2018-04-06 15:33

Time for k-thrillers?

When Barbara Zitwer asked me the statistics on Korean thrillers and their translated English versions last week, I could not find answers through searching. Why? Because Korea's literary classification system does not have “thriller” as an independent category.

2018-03-09 01:50

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