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Sun, March 29, 2020 | 06:40
Editorial
The leaders of the Group of 20 major economies have promised to step up international cooperation in fighting the coro...
The nation's oil refining industry is going through unprecedented difficulties. Hit by a set of adverse factors, inclu...
Thoughts of the Times
The coronavirus has been causing unprecedented changes to organizational cultures. Many corporations have chosen to have their employees a...
I still vividly remember an unforgettable event that shook this country 10 years ago. It was around midnight on March 27, 2010, that 46 sa...
China Watcher
Difficulty knocks on the door out of nowhere. Adversity comes in many forms. We all bound to face hardships from which it seems there is n...
Today in History

1774-Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts

1845-Mexico drops diplomatic relations with U.S.

1866-First ambulance goes into service

1891-First world weightlifting championship held

1920-Thomas Masaryk elected President of Czechoslovakia

1929-Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador

1939-Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco

1941-Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy

1959-11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government and installs Panchen Lama

1960-Scotch factory explodes, burying 20 firefighters (Glasgow, Scotland)

1962-Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees

1970-1,086 die when 7.3 earthquake destroys 254 villages (Gediz, Turkey)

1972-Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game

1981-France performs nuclear test

Columns
I am an information junkie. I admit it. Turning down an offering of freshly picked information is hard for me. Stopping myself from indulg...
Mark Peterson
Last week I looked at the number of invasions Korea has suffered, and I explained my point of view, that there were really very few invasi...
Oh Young-jin
I will only take “your heart” that comes with your kind offer. That would be my response to a 40 percent pay cut President Moon Jae-in mad...
Google “Europe” and “crisis” and you will turn up 784 million results. So often do the two terms appear together that they might as well b...
Kang Hyun-kyung
“Coupang is better than the government.”I found this comment from a reader while reading an online news article on Sunday about President ...
Blogs
In the late 19th century, traveling the streets of Seoul was an adventure. The streets were filled with savage Korean ponies biting and ki...
I found this message scrawled on a single sheet of paper and crammed in a bottle that washed up on the coast. I present it to you for your...
History is about the most cruel of all goddesses, and she leads her triumphal car over heaps of corpses, not only in war, but also in “pea...
The park surrounding Haengju Mountain Fortress is basically a monument to General Kwon Yul and his decisive victory over the Japanese forc...
Cartoons
Coronavirus socialism
Chinese propaganda false
Tribune Service
China's announcement on March 17 that it will expel at least 13 American journalists with the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal will hurt ...
On Monday, President Donald Trump made clear he's itching to lift the coronavirus restrictions that have locked down the economy.His angst...
Historically, it takes a war to postpone or cancel the modern Olympic Games. Since 1896, there have been three cancellations - the 1916 Berlin games (World War I); and ...
Civilization implies the acknowledgement that many challenges can be met only by cooperation and the pooling of resources. Locally, this i...
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JohnBurton
KimJimyung
BernardRowan
SemoonChang
ChoiSungjin
TongKim
JasonLim
HyonOBrien
CaseyLartigueJr
MarkPeterson
LeeSeonghyon
DonaldKirk
DeauwandMyers
StephenCostello
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