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Thu, September 24, 2020 | 20:51
Editorial
It is deplorable that some ultra-right conservative groups and politicians are plotting to hold mass rallies on the Oct. 3 National Foundation Day, despite the government's repea...
Union leaders and management at Korea's largest carmaker, Hyundai Motor, agreed Monday to freeze wages for this year. Members of the union have yet to vote to agree to this, the ...
Thoughts of the Times
Representatives of the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban movement have begun formal direct peace negotiations. The two sides held ...
Whenever I visit my hometown, it reminds me of the poem “Nostalgia” written by Jeong Ji-yong.
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
In the late hours of September 20, 1875, the Japanese warship Un'yo anchored off Yeongjong Island (where the Incheon International Airport...
The United States of America is a term that contains in it all the hope and all the contradictions of our country, and of the Americas. Th...
Escaped from North Korea in 2006, arrived in South Korea in 2007 (repatriated from China in 2002 and 2004). I attempted my first escape fr...
On the cloudy morning of September 19, 1875, a strange vessel appeared in the sea near Ganghwa Island. “Flying a yellow flag,” it had two ...
Columns
Donald Kirk
PHILADELPHIA - The Independence Hall where 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence is a vision in red brick, its clock tower looking...
Troy Stangarone
On July 5, 1945 British citizens went to the polls for the first time since 1935. Less than two months earlier the Allies had celebrated V...
ITHACA - Boundaries between academic disciplines are always artificial creations intended to facilitate analysis, given our limitations. B...
Will the Saudis formalize relations with Israel or will they not? That is the $64,000 question. The odds are that Saudi Arabia is not abou...
The old calculation was simple and brutal: if you want to overthrow a tyrant, you must use violence. There was an occasional exception, li...
Samsung has not allowed any form of union under its roof for 81 years ever since its establishment. It is Samsung's so-called “No Union” p...
MADRID - The Sperry Corporation was an American manufacturer of electronic components, information-technology equipment, and defense syste...
Bernard Rowan
Bernard RowanMy column concerns the newly published volume of poems by Professor Choi Yearn-Hong, entitled “Snows of Kilimanjaro.&rd...
Choi Sung-jin
A single “military-related” issue dominated four days of interpellation during the 21st National Assembly's first regular session last wee...
LONDON - Whenever the great and the good unite in approval or condemnation of something, my impulse is to break ranks. So, I find it hard ...
Cartoons
Respect-for-rbg
Permanent wave
Tribune Service
It's time to open the movie theaters - carefully and maybe gradually - but with most other businesses successfully finding their way through the cloud of COVID-19, it s...
If you are at all claustrophobic, seeing nothing but white smoke from the windows is unsettling. If you go outside, even a precious N95 ma...
Firestorms in the West have grown bigger and more destructive in recent years _ and harder to escape. Massive and frenzied, they have overtaken people trying to outrun ...
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1639-First printing press in America

1775-American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured

1789-Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify)

1911-Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park

1926-Henry Ford announces the 8 hour, 5-day work week

1934-Lou Gehrig plays in ...

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