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Fri, September 24, 2021 | 21:37
Editorial
The Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) said Thursday that it plans to raise electricity prices in the fourth quarter of this year. The price increase will be 3 won ($0.0025) per ...
Global financial markets have shown a jittery reaction to the prospective default of China's second-largest real estate developer Evergrande Group. The group has been pressured t...
Thoughts of the Times
On Monday, Aug. 16, 2021, the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, was absolute mayhem with huge crowds of people - Americans, coa...
I recently read an excellent story carried in The New York Times that compared the Afghanistan refugee evacuation to our part in saving al...
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
This week we've seen North Korea launch missiles from a train and, not to be outdone, South Korea launch missiles from a submarine with th...
In March 1912, Sontag Hotel was the place to be in Seoul. Some described it as a place of political intrigue - backrooms haunted with shad...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's sister, Kim Yo-jong, has accused North Koreans in South Korea of being defectors, describing us as “trai...
In February 1912, an American arrived at a small Japanese whaling station near Ulsan, Korea. He was 28 years old, a naturalist and an expl...
Columns
. Yoon Byung-se
This month marks a historic milestone for us Koreans - the 30th anniversary of the two Koreas' simultaneous admission to the United Nation...
. Donald Kirk
The acronym, “AUKUS,” when you try to pronounce it, sounds like some weird wild animal, an AUKUS. The initials stand for Australia, the U....
A paradigm shift in jihadist thinking suggests that the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan may prove to have achieved more than many counterterr...
Here's what Amazon emailed me after a relatively small matter developed into a giant headache: “Your feedback is helping us build Earth's ...
. Jason Lim
A recent Wall Street Journal article headlined, “Digital Addictions Are Drowning Us in Dopamine,” has an interesting subtitle: “Rising rat...
What can and should we be doing to reduce the increasing nuclear threat? While we've all been dealing with the daily challenges wrought by...
As expected, everyone's apoplectic about the Supreme Court's decision not to block the Texas abortion law.
Troy Stangarone
Sometimes there are situations where we have the ability to do something, but it isn't wise to do so. The recent decision by the Internati...
. John J. Metzler
We all remember where we were on Sept. 11, 2001. We all remember with sheer disbelief watching the unfolding horror and the realization th...
The United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan has captured the world's attention. The chaos, distress, and general sadness of those left ...
Cartoons
China real estate market cracking
Climate detector
Tribune Service
President Joe Biden sounded all the right notes in his Tuesday address to the United Nations General Assembly. He spoke on the need for gl...
The Biden administration got ahead of the science last month in proposing to make all Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 eligible for a booster shot. That's why it w...
Assertions about actions taken by Gen. Mark Milley in the final days of the Trump presidency are serious enough to merit vigorous inquiry, and possibly an investigation...
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