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Editorial
Consumer prices soared 6 percent year-on-year in June, hitting the highest level in almost 24 years, according to Statistics Korea. The prices have continued to climb, particular...
June Huh, a Korean-American mathematician who teaches at Princeton University, has been named a recipient of this year's Fields Medal, becoming the first scholar of Korean descen...
Thoughts of the Times
Government leaders of the influential Group of 7 (G7) gathered June 26 to 28. They met, talked and worked on policies at the elegant Schlo...
Last weekend, I watched a YouTube video in which an expert showed how to create a beautiful object using only a bowl of water and a few tr...
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
Phillip Gillett, an American missionary working with the YMCA, is often credited as being the first to introduce baseball to Korea in 1905...
During the country's wettest season, a time that has seen expressways closed and rivers flooded, I make my way every morning to Hanyang Un...
On a beautiful fall afternoon in late October 1894, baseball made its appearance in Seoul. It isn't clear if this was the first baseball g...
Some people access Korea through its literature, others through its movies, its beauty products, its webtoons, or its history. The pathway...
Columns
A government has no reason to exist if it neglects or fails to protect people's lives and their property. A case in point could be the pre...
We write to you seeking to highlight the situation affecting the happiness of the nearly 30,000 orphans and vulnerable children in Korea, ...
Indubitably, Pakistan is nowadays passing through one of the most turbulent periods in its recent history. On the surface, it is in seriou...
. John J. Metzler
Just a year ago, the political odds of comfortably neutral Sweden and Finland joining NATO were a long shot. However, Vladimir Putin's att...
Chyung Eun-ju
Cryptocurrencies had a powerful allure: No risk from inflation, high returns, complete privacy, easy to transfer anywhere and no regulatio...
Incheon is poised to start the “New Hong Kong City Project” which aims to develop the western port city into the global financial hub of A...
South Korea's NATO initiation got off on the right foot. Korea took the occasion of its first-ever NATO summit attendance on June 29-30 to...
. Deauwand Myers
Fake news was used thousands of years ago for propaganda, fear-mongering, populism, and political opportunism. It's nothing new.
The political ructions unleashed in the United States by the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision ...
. Andrew Hammond
The memorable phrase of Charles Dickens in “A Tale of Two Cities” that, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” is one that...
Cartoons
Fuel price
SCOTUS and the EPA
Tribune Service
The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision last Thursday to severely limit the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to combat greenhouse gas emissions is devastating ...
For those who've dismissed the proceedings of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol last year as more about political theater t...
Under the twisted vision of the Supreme Court majority, states and localities are now barred from deciding who can get a permit to carry a concealed weapon. While it's ...
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