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Wed, January 20, 2021 | 16:24
Editorial
Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong was put behind bars again Monday immediately after he was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for bribery and embezzlement ...
The Korean economy has recovered about 80 percent of its vigor from the depths it had plunged to due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent report, which also stated, ho...
Thoughts of the Times
I am in awe of the unique 10-story marble pagoda of Gyeongcheon Temple (National Treasure No. 86) on display in the lobby of the National ...
It was December 2019 when I informed my family that I'd be moving to South Korea to teach English. Their apprehension, fear and concern wa...
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
K-culture is differentiated from Korean culture in a variety of ways. The former is primarily constructed for export, and its success or f...
As someone who was born in North Korea, it is so unexpected for me to be speaking about the Giving Tuesday movement that started in the Un...
Even small children are starting to sense that we live in an age when literally none of the information provided is reliable or believable...
As I scrolled through my social media this week, a single hashtag kept appearing: #SorryJung-in. The nation was experiencing a collective ...
Columns
Lee Seong-hyon
A recent court ruling over a key historical issue between South Korea and Japan has emerged as another major impediment to Seoul-Tokyo tie...
Controversy seems to be growing over the amendment to the Development of Inter-Korean Relations Act aimed at imposing a ban on floating an...
It's embarrassing. Like some televangelist preacher caught with his pants down at an out-of-town house-of-pleasure, America has been caugh...
John Burton
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made his opening bid in dealing with the new administration of President Joe Biden at the eighth congress ...
The siege of the U.S. Congress on Jan. 6 by what U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has called “domestic terrorists” has dominated media headl...
Mark Peterson
I have two reasons to offer gratitude to the LTI - the Korean Literature Translation Institute. The first reason for appreciation for what...
Last year was unkind on all fronts: health, the economy, politics and climate change. Friends and families have suffered from COVID-19; ma...
WASHINGTON, DC - Most undocumented migrants crossing the United States' southern border come from three small countries: El Salvador, Guat...
Donald Kirk
For the U.S., the worst is yet to come, and that's not just over the few days before Joe Biden's inauguration next Wednesday (Jan. 20) as ...
Park Moo-jong
The Republic of Korea has a shameful political legacy: All 11 former presidents lived or are living unhappy lives after their forced or le...
Cartoons
Inauguration parade
Trump waves goodbye
Tribune Service
More than 1,000 law enforcement officers swept through Hong Kong on Jan. 6, arresting 53 residents under Beijing's new national security law. Those detained could face ...
Our democracy cannot heal from the Jan. 6 insurrection, let alone block further violence from far-right terrorists, unless Republicans sta...
Can someone please get a copy of a dictionary - any dictionary - delivered to the California Democratic Party headquarters? Or at least email over a link to an online v...
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1939-Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews

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