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Opinion
Fri, November 15, 2019 | 09:31
Editorial
South Korea's senior security officials and diplomats, including Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha, are reportedly prepa...
The Korea Development Institute (KDI) called for an expansionary fiscal policy and accommodative monetary operations W...
Thoughts of the Times
There is no doubt contemporary bilateral relations are driven more by economics and geopolitics, and trade between Kenya and South Korea w...
Recently a furor broke out in the media about Korea's payment for the stationing of U.S. troops in South Korea, namely about the widely ci...
China Watcher
It has been six years since the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), regarded as a “Century Project,” was proposed in 2013. BRI is now exerting...
Today in History

1492-In Spain, six Jews and five Conversos are accused of using black magic

1791-First Catholic college in U.S., Georgetown, opens

1869-Free postal delivery formally inaugurated

1889-Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed

1920-League of Nations holds first meeting in Geneva

1939-Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews

1948-William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as PM of Canada

1957-U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000

1969-250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington DC against the Vietnam War

1977-U.S. President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran

1978-183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka

1980-Pope John Paul II begins 5-day visit to West Germany

1983-Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed

1989-"Batman" is released on video tape

1991-Dow Jones average drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive)

1999-Next transit of Mercury visible in North America

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Oh Young-jin
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Blogs
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Since the North-South Korea summit was held in Panmunjom in the spring of 2018, a peaceful atmosphere on the Korean Peninsula has been cre...
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LettertotheEditor
Cartoons
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Tribune Service
One of the first things I learned on my current trip to Beijing is that foreigners are marooned if they don't have a Chinese bank account....
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In the 46 years since the Supreme Court's decision in Roe vs. Wade affirmed a woman's constitutional right to an abortion, opponents of the ruling have steadfastly refu...
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