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Opinion
Fri, December 13, 2019 | 03:50
Editorial
The United States has returned four vacant military bases to South Korea on condition that the two sides continue cons...
The government has decided to give a one-year grace period to small- and medium-sized enterprises in implementing the ...
Thoughts of the Times
Prayer beads like the Rosary (“rosarium” in Latin means “rose garden” or “bouquet of roses”) are used not only by Catholics but also Hindu...
Bidding farewell to 2019, I know I have lived on this planet for a full 80 years since I was born Oct. 11, 1939. The most-commonly-used me...
China Watcher
Ambassador Qiu Guohong was born in Shanghai and graduated from the Shanghai International Studies University (SISU). He joined the Foreign...
Today in History

1570-Sweden, Denmark sign Peace of Stettin

1577-Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world

1734-England, Russia sign trade agreement

1759-First music store in America opens (Philadelphia)

1843-"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold

1903-Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone (New Jersey)

1916-Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian, Italian troops in 24 hours in Tyrol

1918-U.S. army of occupation crosses the Rhine, enters Germany

1920-Netherlands breaks contact with kingdoms of Serbia, Croatia and Slavia

1941-U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal

1944-Japanese kamikaze crashes into U.S. cruiser Nashville, kills 138

1950-James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial

1961-Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein

1966-First U.S. bombing of Hanoi

1974-Malta becomes a republic

Columns
Donald Kirk
Unlike just about every Korean, I had not heard of “Parasite” when I walked into the E Street Cinema in Washington a few weeks ago with ev...
Park Moo-jong
Still making headlines in the final stage of the turbulent year of 2019 is bad news about increasing concerns over national security, stub...
Despite having been written off numerous times, NATO survives. But another fox has entered the hen house, and it has met with the typical ...
Na Jeong-ju
Optimism prevails now in South Korea about the prospects of relations with China. President Moon Jae-in will visit Chengdu, China, in late...
The game of nuclear chicken has resumed between the U.S. and North Korea. North Korea's state media announced Sunday that it carried out a...
Blogs
In Korea, December 7, 1941, was a beautiful but unremarkable Sunday morning. In her diary, Mary Taylor wrote: “Up before sunrise. Down the...
Seoul's appearance is constantly changing - buildings standing today are gone tomorrow. Here are some images of the city from the 1920-30s...
This week saw reports surfacing online of a whole host of movie-goers being so annoyed by the presence of children in the cinema while wat...
Joseph White was from St. Louis, Missouri, and lived in a middle-class neighborhood of two-story, well-kept brick bungalows with his paren...
LettertotheEditor
Cartoons
Hate environmentalists
Russia banned from Olympics
Tribune Service
Maybe House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler didn't choose the best word when, in his opening statement before the committee's fir...
From Elizabeth Warren to Tulsi Gabbard, the Democratic presidential candidates have come out strong for breaking up big tech. It has become a central focus of Warren's ...
Washington is one of America's most trade-reliant states, so President Donald Trump's ongoing trade negotiations have brought broad economic uncertainty. With agricultu...
They were laughing at him, and it made President Trump angry. So when asked about the video clip that appeared to show NATO leaders commis...
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MarkPeterson
LeeSeonghyon
DonaldKirk
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StephenCostello
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