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Sun, January 24, 2021 | 09:29
Choi Sung-jin
Memories of 'ppira'
When I was a little boy, I lived in Huam-dong, a hillside neighborhood of Mount Nam, Seoul. It was back in the mid-1960s when kids had little to play with, and we often went to the mountain. Yes, Mount Nam was a mountain for third graders.
2020-12-29 17:02
How to attain prosecutorial reform
Among countries liberated after World War II, South Korea is seen as almost the only nation that has gone on to attain both democracy and industrialization.
2020-12-15 16:59
Diplomatic mission impossible
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, unlike the current occupant of the White House, is seen as a reasonable and predictable person. Biden has reaffirmed this through his recent selections for key cabinet posts.
2020-12-01 17:50
Biden and two Koreas
Barring some unexpected accidents, Joe Biden will move into the White House about two months from now.
2020-11-17 16:56
Whoever takes White House
The much-troubled, controversial U.S. presidential election is finally over now. Would that it was so, but it is not.
2020-11-03 16:51
Time for 'Korea first' policy
There seems to be nothing in common between Korean Ambassador to the U.S. Lee Soo-hyuck and the world-famous boy band, BTS.
2020-10-20 17:01
A letter to Kim Jong-un
I'm not too fond of columns written in letter form. Many such articles are manneristic, one-sided, and shooting from the hip, not least because the writers know their letters will not be sent to or even read by the addressees.
2020-10-06 17:11
Ditching Private Seo
A single “military-related” issue dominated four days of interpellation during the 21st National Assembly's first regular session last week.
2020-09-22 17:00
Abe's exit
“Goodbye and good riddance!”Many Koreans might have thought this - some out loud - late last month when they heard the news that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was stepping down.
2020-09-08 17:05
Two groups and second viral wave
Korea was one of the model cases in dealing with COVID-19 by getting the pandemic under control without national lockdowns.
2020-08-25 17:53
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