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Sun, July 12, 2020 | 20:07

Park Moo-jong

Beating 'corona blues'

The term “blues” can be understand basically as a music genre that originated in the United States around the 1870s among African-Americans, mostly slaves and their descendants, who sang as they toiled in the cotton and vegetable fields.

2020-07-09 17:07

As a Korean proverb runs, “One would drink caustic soda, if it were free of charge.” A joke of similar meaning also puts it that “if you like it for free, you'll become bald.” One of my foreign friends asked what the proverb means, saying, “You're kidding. Swallowing caustic soda or lye can cause death.”

2020-06-25 17:18

'No good organizations (NGOs)'

One of my friends asked me recently, “Do you know what NGO stands for?” I responded without a pause, “Are you kidding me? You know that NGO stands for nongovernmental organization.” But, he responded with a cynical smile, “No. It means no good organization.”

2020-06-11 17:21

Saving Han Myeong-sook

On Aug. 25, 2015, about 150 people, including several lawmakers of the then opposition party, held a “ceremony” to see off a convict going to jail to serve her two-year prison term in front of the Seoul Detention House.

2020-05-28 17:27

Waning respect for teachers

From ages past, it has been said that out of reverence for our teachers, we should not even step on their shadow. However, the reality of today overshadows the precious saying, sadly. And today, May 15, is the day we “celebrate” teachers.

2020-05-14 18:17

The “cruelest” month of April, as T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) described it in his 1922 poem “The Waste Land,” is gone whilst South Korea is effectively containing the coronavirus pandemic as a beacon to the rest of the world.

2020-04-30 17:05

Dear lawmakers-elect!

Every four years just after a parliamentary election, a remark by the late French President Georges Pompidou (1911-74) comes to my mind: “A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.”

2020-04-16 17:00

April: a cruel month?

The novel coronavirus that started in Wuhan, China, four months ago is plaguing the planet with no signs of abating for now, particularly in Europe and the United States. And April has come. April arrives to herald the coming of spring after winter has left. Flowers are blooming and life begins to emerge as a time of joy.

2020-04-02 18:04

Can you believe this?

A middle-aged man asked a question of one of his friends, who immediately asked in return, “What? ”One of the most frequently spoken words among Koreans, particularly youngsters, during talks is “jinjja?” or “jeongmal?” meaning “really?”

2020-03-19 17:28

Living in 'new world'

So many Koreans, including myself, are now under “house arrest” to maintain a social distance aimed at keeping away the rapidly spreading new coronavirus, without knowing when it will end.

2020-03-05 17:38

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