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Mon, June 25, 2018 | 15:26

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First ladies of Koreas

Ri Sol-ju is the wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Thoughts of the Times | 2018-05-31 16:34

MERS and Memorial Day

Three years have passed since a Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) epidemic was rampant throughout the country. Many people easily forget such incidents _ a long time social ill. The syndrome was known to have started in May 2015 and lasted for two months. During that time this country was nearly isolated from other countries so that most foreigners avoided travel to Kor...

Thoughts of the Times | 2018-05-30 17:09

Great sacrifice can produce great results

This past weekend as Americans enjoyed cookouts, beach reading, shopping sprees, blockbuster movie openings and good times with family and friends, many also took time to remember America's military men and women who died in defense of U.S. freedom. It was, after all, Memorial Day weekend.

Thoughts of the Times | 2018-05-29 18:01

Fear of public speaking is hurting your career

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Most people disagree with Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States. Survey results show, time after time, that public speaking is so scary, so debilitating, that people would rather die first.

Thoughts of the Times | 2018-05-28 16:43

Cultures change when leaders teach

The more I visit corporations, government organizations, and universities to teach specific subjects, the more I learn how to become a better influencer. This requires me to develop many different abilities: teaching, being aware of myself, empathizing with my audience, and creating an environment. What I do as a corporate instructor and consultant makes me feel that I am imp...

Thoughts of the Times | 2018-05-27 16:55

When I go to the supermarket or convenience store, I often find some products labeled “Three in one,” which means I can have three items or benefits if I buy one. What a gift! Nobody would feel bad when something more is given for free. One day, I had a chance to listen to an interesting lecture on pseudo-religions. By the end of that lecture, a sharing was given by a religio...

Thoughts of the Times | 2018-05-25 17:22

I have a friend who has grown up following Hinduism. Whenever the topic of boyfriends or marriage pops up, she used says that her parents, having an ideal image of a “real” man in their minds, would decide who she can date and marry. Furthermore, many of us teens live in families where the father has the biggest role in the house, relegating the rest of the members as inferio...

Thoughts of the Times | 2018-05-24 16:22

Tedesco's contribution to Korean studies

I have maintained friendships over the decades with a number of foreign scholars devoted to Korean studies. Out of the many I've met, Dr. Frank M. Tedesco stands out because of his deep interest in old and new aspects of Korea _ in fact, Koreans as people themselves and all things Korean _ and their unique expressions in Korean Buddhist culture and Korean native religions.

Thoughts of the Times | 2018-05-23 16:27

CVID, PVID, SVID and what else?

We hear the controversial security acronyms CVID, PVID, and SVID almost every day through mass media at home and abroad nowadays; similar to THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) a couple of years ago. Those initial letters are directly related to the watch-dog defensive posture against North Korea's nuclear warhead threats against South Korea and the United States, bon...

Thoughts of the Times | 2018-05-22 17:18

Three azalea flowers

One day in the 1990s, I had a chance to listen to a professor from Seoul National University make a speech at a hall in a broadcasting company near my hometown. The professor said that when he was a student, after passing the entrance exam for Seoul National University, he expected his relatives to give him a material reward because his father, a poet, was too poor.

Thoughts of the Times | 2018-05-21 17:42

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