The Korea Times

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2020

On this day...1775-U.S. Marine Corps established by Congress1801-Kentucky outlaws dueling1891-First Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)1898-Race riot in Wilmington NC (8 blacks killed)1917-41 suffragists are arrested in front of the White House1918-Independence of Poland proclaimed by Jozef Pilsudski1919-First observance of National Book Week1969-"Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV1975-PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in NYC1975-U.N. General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism1978-Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks1984-Miami Hurricanes blows 31-0 lead in 3rd quarter lose to MD 42-401988-China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 9381988-N.Y.'s MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes1989-Germans begin punching holes in the Berlin Wall1990-Lebanon releases 2 French hostages (Camille Sontag & Marcel Coudari)

Nov 9, 2020By Kim Ji-soo

Today in History

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2020

On this day...1799-Napoleon becomes dictator (firstconsul) of France1858-First performance of NY Symphony Orchestra1864-First export of goods from Burrard Inlet, BC to a foreign country1885-The opera "Ermine" is produced (London)1904-First airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes1924-Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes first elected woman governor (of Texas)1927-Giant Panda discovered, China1935-Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms1953-Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union1961-PGA eliminates Caucasians only rule1973-Fire at Taiyo department store, kills 101 & injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan)1976-U.N. General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa1984-Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed1985-Gary Kasparov (USSR) becomes World Chess Champion at age of 221989-East Berlin opens its borders

Nov 8, 2020By Kim Ji-soo

Politics

Andy Kimcongratulatory message

Hi everyone! I am Congressman Andy Kim. And I wanted to congratulate The Korea Times on its 70th anniversary. What an extraordinary accomplishment. And for 70 years, being an important voice for Koreans all over the globeRight here in America, it has been a pillar to my family and to so many other families in terms of getting the information and the analysis that helps us stay connected. And that is exactly what has happened. Since the founding, during the Korean War, all the way to the reporting, and the important analysis of the peace talks and the talks with North Korea, this has been such a huge part of all of our lives and I just can't thank The Korea Times enough for the important voice it plays.As the only Korean American in the United States Congress, l try to do everything that I can to be able to lift up all of our voices, and The Korea Times is an important way for us to stay connected. So just congratulations again. I look forward to just many, many years ahead. Today, we just celebrate the 70th anniversary.Andy Kim U.S. Congressman, New Jersey 3rd District

Oct 29, 2020By Kim Ji-soo

Politics

At work

Desk editors and reporters gather in the main meeting room for a meeting with Managing Editor Kim Jae-kyoung presiding. / Korea Times file

Oct 28, 2020By Kim Ji-soo

Opinion

YooJaesuk

First, let me offer my congratulations to The Korea Times on its 70th anniversary.As the longest continuously published English newspaper in the country, The Korea Times has been steadily serving its role as a beacon on Korean affairs and news to the world. Having started out as the first English newspaper The Korea Times' content has been cited by other leading global media outlets, and so I would like to once again extend congratulations to your publication. Korea has become a country watched and consumed with utmost attention by people across the world.The attention focuses not only on the global K-pop group BTS and hallyu; it extends to all things Korean including the state of the economy and the country's medical system.As the world increasingly integrates online in the era of digitization, I think The Korea Times has a chance to play a bigger more vital role in letting the world know about Korea. I hope the Korea Times will continue to offer new visions and challenges for the next seven decades. Once again, I extend my celebratory greetings on the occasion of the 70th anniversa

Oct 28, 2020By Kim Ji-soo

Politics

GaryLui, BrianRhoads, SCMP

Tagahou, tajazhou and hello from your friends from SMCP.It is our pleasure and honor to congratulate The Korea Times on its 70th anniversary.Seventy years of news coverage. From your newspaper's founding, during the Korean War, through South Korea's transition from a dictatorship to the thriving democracy it is today. That is certainly worth celebrating.And this milestone comes at a time when journalism from Asia is needed around the world more than ever before. The impact and affairs from our region are accelerating in critical importance. We must work together to build a future where our collective voice is a global voice because Asia matters. SCMP is proud to be partners with you. We are cheering you on and watching your digital transformation with great interest and anticipation.We look forward to witnessing the new great age of The Korea Times. We wish you success for another 70 years and beyond. Gary Liu, CEO of SCMP and Brian Rhoads, managing editor of SCMP

Oct 28, 2020By Kim Ji-soo

Opinion

Apologia for the past

By William R. JonesOn its Oct. 9 edition, The Korea Times posted Peter Yoonsuk Paik's “Mass man” and the destruction of the West's civilization heritage. It was a nice, thoughtful article and gives a bit of clarity to the issue. He cites Jose Ortega y Gasset, a philosopher from Spain, who attempts to provide an answer for the fury of youth today and their attack on our past. For all Ortega's reasoning he was only half-right for he neglected the moral, ethical, virtuous, righteous, and noble standards that many have thrown out the window. Concerning “the white supremacist hierarchy of the South”: I proclaim and declare, not only the South! There was repressive history of all people everywhere. Fury against statues and other symbols of the past and destruction is not the answer. There are innumerable reminders of the past. Are we to erase all? So many do not have conception of the true history and of its how and why. They are not willing to do the study and full research of it.There is racial inequality, in particular, the uneven treatment of minorities concerning arrest issues. Howeve

Oct 27, 2020By Kim Ji-soo

Foreign Affairs

Korea-Laos friendship through medicinal goods

Korea Love Sharing Community Chairman Lee Eun-deok, sixth from left, poses with Laotian Ambassador to Korea Thieng Boupha, after the two agreed that Seoul would send medicinal products and other daily necessities to Laos once or twice a year at the Korea Laos Friendship Association office in the capital, Wednesday. A total of $680,000 worth of medicine was sent to Laos this time. Officials from the association, the Global Warm Society and Kyungwoo System were also there as partners in the program. / Courtesy of KOLOS

Oct 22, 2020By Kim Ji-soo

Opinion

China's human rights abuses slammed in key UN committees

By John J. MetzlerBeijing's widening human rights and political crackdowns in both Xinjiang Province and Hong Kong have underscored the People's Republic of China's Pavlovian reaction involving any opposition towards the ruling communist regime. Though suppressing religious and political dissent is nothing new on the Chinese mainland, its scope and intensity has deepened under Chairman Xi Jinping's hardline “personalist” rule.Now a disparate and diverse group of 39 countries have pushed back in the U.N.'s Third Committee (Humanitarian); Germany's Ambassador Christoph Heusgen who sponsored the statement added emphatically, “We are gravely concerned about the human rights situation in Xinjiang and the recent developments in Hong Kong.” Earlier this year a similar statement gained only 23 signatory nations.The United States, Canada and the United Kingdom joined the condemnation along with much of the European Union such as Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia and Sweden. Other European states included Albania and Bosnia/Herzegovina. In the Asia/Pacific reg

Oct 18, 2020By Kim Ji-soo

Editorial

ED Naver's foul play

Biggest search engine in credibility crisis for manipulating algorithm Naver, the nation's biggest search engine, has been dealt a heavy blow by the government's antitrust agency for allegedly manipulating search algorithms in favor of the company's online shopping site. The Korea Fair Trade Commission said Tuesday it had discovered Naver made such algorithmic changes at least six times between 2012 and 2015 and imposed a fine of 26.7 billion won ($22.9 million) on the company along with a correction order. According to the commission, Naver manipulated search algorithms that lowered the rankings of goods sold by competitors in February 2012, two months before the company launched its online shopping service. In June 2015, Naver also tweaked its algorithms to show more search results for goods and services when linked to the company's payment service, KFTC said. As a result of these acts, Naver's shopping platform's market share soared to 21.1percent in 2018 from 4.9 percent in 2015.Given KFTC's allegations are true, Naver will likely be unable to avoid a serious credibility crisis b

Oct 7, 2020By Kim Ji-soo

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2020

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Andy Kimcongratulatory message

At work

YooJaesuk

GaryLui, BrianRhoads, SCMP

Apologia for the past

Korea-Laos friendship through medicinal goods

China's human rights abuses slammed in key UN committees

ED Naver's foul play

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