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Tue, August 11, 2020 | 13:29
Editorial
Heavy rainfall is wreaking havoc on the country in this persisting monsoon season, causing severe loss of life and property damage. The season which began June 24 will likely con...
It had seemed unlikely that the main opposition United Future Party would ever get close to the ruling Democratic Party of Korea in terms of approval ratings, but this is what is...
Thoughts of the Times
The world is getting warmer every day. The Korea Times also mentioned the boom of stick insects and gypsy moths as an effect of the warming climate in Korea. Climate ch...
There is a beautiful road named Palisades Interstate Parkway (PIP) along the west bank of the Hudson River. The southern terminus of the r...
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 1973, South Korean president Park Chung-hee introduced the Minor Offences Act which mandated limits on the length of men’s hair and wom...
The recent declaration by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that engagement with China is dead and that cooperation with China has ended...
Standing - almost forgotten - on the south bank of the Han River just below the Hangang Bridge is a monument that many cyclists ride by wi...
It is said that, as time passes, everything changes - unfortunately this is not true in regards to Seoul's oppressive summers. In the late...
Columns
Tong Kim
With less than three months left before the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 3, there is a growing interest to see who is going to win -...
The United States has not yet proposed a “new method of calculation,” as required by North Korea for the process of denuclearization of th...
From day one the Trump HR operation has been the Chernobyl of Human Resources. Instead of hiring some of the 63 million people who voted f...
As cool as he was, there was always something a little off about Batman: a billionaire playboy acting the righteous vigilante while wearin...
The story comes right out of a Dan Brown mystery thriller in which Vatican secrets are targeted by State sponsored computer hackers. Yet a...
CAMBRIDGE - Since 2017, America's National Security Strategy has focused on great power competition, and today much of Washington is busy ...
Whether you wear a mask depends on many factors, such as your level of education, gender, partisanship, or - and I admit, this is a smalle...
People often comment on how well, in general, Koreans sing. It's not an accident, but the fruit of the Korean educational system's emphasi...
Donald Kirk
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - The pandemic is deceptive. You know it's here, all around you, but you can't see it or hear or feel it. You cruise d...
Seoul, the capital of South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a megacity that has an official history of 628 years, consid...
Cartoons
It is what it is
Antisocial Distancing
Tribune Service
After a stifling hot July that saw 25 days of 90-degree-plus weather _ breaking a record that stood for nearly a century and a half _ August swept into Maryland with to...
The social media app TikTok has been downloaded more than 175 million times in the U.S. alone since its global launch in 2018. But now it's going viral for reasons othe...
From writer H.G. Wells to filmmaker Ridley Scott, the possibility of life on Mars has long sparked the public's imagination for generations. And if there ever was a tim...
Today in History

1866-World's first roller rink opens (Newport, R.I.)

1918-Battle of Amiens ends in WWI, Allied forces beat Germans

1945-Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito

1949-First Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi)

1952-Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan

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