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Michael Breen

We, the Animal Eaters

As a thinking person, you don't cook humans for dinner, have slaves, burn witches, beat your children, judge people by their race or advocate punishment for homosexuals. Or, if you do any of the last three, you're careful who you admit it to.

2009-11-19 17:46

List Causes Controversy

A long-awaited book listing a former president among other Koreans alleged to have helped the Japanese authorities control the peninsula in the first half of the last century, was published last weekend in what its authors hoped would help modern Korea come to terms with its past.

2009-11-12 17:19

Expatriate Affection for Korea

When non-natives criticize something about the country they live in, should they be seen as resident insiders or, as the Latin root of the word expatriate suggests, people living outside (ex) their real country (patria)?

2009-11-05 17:43

Public Sentiment or Public Hysteria?

In a column here this week, Oh Young-jin, the city desk editor, argued that foreign companies whose business suffers because they fail to understand popular sentiment in Korea get what they deserve.

2009-10-29 17:47

Why Korea Isn’t a Finance Hub Yet

If you key the word ``vows" into this newspaper's search engine, it will throw a lot of headlines at you.

2009-10-22 17:52

Take Care of Your Head

A few days ago, in a business meeting, I noticed a colleague muttering to himself. The others around the table were focused on the discussion, but he was looking inward and his lips were moving.

2009-10-15 17:54

Should Everyone Go to University?

Chung Un-chan, the newly appointed prime minister, hinted at a crackdown on private cram schools this week in his first official meeting with President Lee Myung-bak.

2009-10-08 17:47

Let’s Introduce the Yellow Box

Re-watching the old movie ``Ghandi'' recently, I marveled at the spiritual strength of the leader of the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India.

2009-10-01 16:14

Korea Should Change Its Name

For most people outside the country, the first thing that comes to mind when you say ``South Korea" is ``North Korea."

2009-09-24 17:59

Probe Into Rock-Throwing Elephant

Police in Seoul have expanded the investigation which began this week after a woman alleged an elephant had thrown rocks at her in the Children's Grand Park in northeast Seoul.

2009-09-17 17:35

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