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Mon, May 25, 2020 | 15:05
Editorial
With the controversy over lawmaker-elect Yoon Mi-hyang, former chief of a wartime sex slavery victims' advocacy group, showing no signs of abating, the conundrum deepens for the ...
When Rep. Park Byeong-seug of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea becomes first speaker of the 21st National Assembly, he will likely be flanked by the nation's first female dep...
Thoughts of the Times
I tuned-into NHK World-Japan, the English-language current affairs TV channel headquartered in Tokyo. chance I caught an interview-documen...
“America and Britain play Cold-War games with Russia in the Arctic.” That is the headline of an informative article in the recent issue of...
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
Yeonmi Park was already on the way to becoming a fluent English learner and public speaker when her sister Eunmi Park joined her at the Te...
Two North Korean refugee sisters graduated from college this past February, one in New York City, the other in South Korea. Their paths in...
If you spend enough time in South Korea, it soon becomes apparent that a hierarchy permeates through much of society. People are ranked ac...
In the summer of 1928, evil lurked within the Han River and it was taking its toll on the crowds that flocked to its banks to escape the h...
Columns
Mark Peterson
When I came to understand that surnames in Korea were unlike those in other countries - a high concentration of the population having one ...
Chang Se-moon
Professor Kwak Soo-il, who is widely respected for his contribution to management science in Korea and is now a member of the National Aca...
How will the COVID-19 mega-crisis end? I don't know, and nor does anyone else. So, perhaps it would be more productive to reflect on how i...
The COVID-19 crisis has likely changed American business forever, as politicians use the deadly pandemic to push for changes that will hav...
That he was a gay man in Korea posed a problem when he became Patient Zero in post-lockdown Korea. Gays are still very much marginalized i...
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus poses a significant threat to Southeast Asia and its regional bloc, the Association of Southeast Asi...
The Trump-fueled pandemic has already claimed 94,000 American lives. And six months from now, the pandemic-fueled election may well wreak ...
Donald Kirk
The memories never fade. The stories of the 10 days of defiance, of suffering and bloodshed, live on in a city that still seethes with res...
Mark Peterson
On Saturday I was asked to serve as a judge for the May 18th commemoration student speech contest in English, for middle and high school s...
The COVID-19 crisis has become the latest front in the escalating clash of ideologies that has become a central feature of geopolitics in ...
Cartoons
Trump golfs while America burns
Trump: Mask or not
Tribune Service
They don't know what they are doing. That's what President Barack Obama said about U.S. leaders in charge of dealing with the COVID-19 pan...
On May 4, world leaders gathered for a virtual vaccine summit .Most of America's allies took part in the donor event organized by the European Union. Some nongovernment...
For critical weeks in February and early March President Donald Trump claimed COVID-19 would magically disappear by itself or with warmer ...
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