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Fri, February 26, 2021 | 04:09
Editorial
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy has decided to extend the expiration period of a building plan for two new nuclear reactors by two years until the end of 2023. Yet the...
Korea's household debt reached a record high of 1,726 trillion won ($1.55 trillion) as of the end of last year, according to data released by the Bank of Korea. Household debt re...
Thoughts of the Times
Last year will be largely remembered as the year of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, a lot of meaningful strides were made to tackle humani...
I'm a nonagenarian just shy of a month and I live on my own. I lost my wife, my partner of 57 years, to cancer three years ago. I'm still ...
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...
Blogs
When you think about North Koreans, what image comes to mind? I would guess that most people would say Kim Jong-un or probably North Korea...
Joseon officials in the late 19th century were often described by Westerners (and probably a lot of Koreans) as corrupt, ill-mannered and ...
In early 1897, eight young men quietly left Seoul on a secret mission for the king. These men were Amhaeng-eosa (Secret Royal Inspectors) ...
Life at the Oriental Consolidated Mining Company's [OCMC] gold mining camps in northern Korea could be extremely difficult - especially fo...
Columns
Donald Kirk
PYEONGTAEK - U.S. soldiers pour out of the walk-in gate of Camp Humphreys on a weekend afternoon, strolling by bars and restaurants, tailo...
Park Moo-jong
Four years ago in 2017, I wrote a column titled “Quo Vadis Korea” about the then commotion and trouble we Koreans were experiencing follow...
At the launch of the Korean New Deal, President Moon Jae-in urged Korea to ride the wave of world history by embracing a low-carbon econom...
The United States and Korea should also be proactive about future areas of economic growth. The technologies underpinning the Fourth Indus...
Yes, a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since Feb. 20, 1971 - but it's still hard to believe that Granny Tyree (my father's mother...
“I'm sending a clear message to the world: America is back. The transatlantic alliance is back,” President Joe Biden affirmed to a high-le...
If you are wise and modern about this you will help unleash mutually-reinforcing economic development, security cooperation, and tension r...
Coffee. I need coffee. And sleep. And food. I picked up my Lab puppy, Thurber, four days ago.
In Northeast Asia, the U.S.-China relationship is also crucial to the management of Korean peninsula issues. Any perceived gap in the resp...
Bernard Rowan
Recently I interviewed Choi Moon-soon, the governor of Gangwon Province. This cheerful and energetic third-term leader of the province - w...
Cartoons
Roll up your sleeves!
Ted Cruz flies to Cancun
Tribune Service
More than a week after Donald Trump's acquittal in the Senate, and not before time, attention is turning more squarely to President Joe Biden and his agenda. Unfortunat...
Earlier this month President Joe Biden went to the State Department to pump up a demoralized foreign service corps, and to tell the world:...
The United States last year signed an agreement with the Taliban that contemplated the withdrawal of all U.S. and allied forces from Afghanistan by May of this year. At...
Today in History

1732-First mass celebrated in American Catholic church, (St Joseph's Church, Philadelphia)

1907-Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)

1907-U.S. Congress raised their own salaries to $7,500

1924-Trial against Hitler in Munich begins

1930-First red & green traffic lights installed (Manhatt...

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