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Michael Breen

Dump Toilet Paper Basket

The move from a boring apartment block, where everything works, to a modernized version of the traditional home was exciting.

2009-09-10 17:35

DMZ Activists Need to Get Real

Ask anyone these days what should be done with the DMZ and they will tell you it should become a conservation area.

2009-09-03 17:58

What’s With the Same Name?

If you want to be a foreign correspondent, you have to learn to never write more than three Korean names in the first paragraph of a news story.

2009-08-27 18:16

A Final Salute to Kim Dae-jung

Millions of Koreans and their foreign friends say a final thank you and farewell to Kim Dae-jung on Sunday. After a funeral ceremony at the National Assembly and burial in the National Cemetery in Seoul, the country will then have to become accustomed to politics without him.

2009-08-20 17:37

Pardons Show Flaws in Law

President Lee Myung-bak has just conducted a traditional mass pardon of criminals to mark Liberation Day Saturday in a gesture to win popular support.

2009-08-13 18:24

Obama Gave N. Koreans Face

The unexpected mission to North Korea this week by former U.S. president Bill Clinton indicates the Obama administration is deploying a new weapon in the struggle with its most difficult opponent in Asia.

2009-08-06 19:42

Should We Promote Our Dong?

Those who live in Korean towns or cities, do so in a ``dong." All of us. But it is remarkable how little the dong contributes to our identity.

2009-07-30 17:45

Socialists in Hongdae

There I am one night last week, sitting on a low wall at a busy corner of the Hongdae district of Seoul, pushing the pram back and forth and listening to a passionate speech by the wife of a Ssangyong Motor unionist, when a nice man in a white hanbok appears from behind and coos at the baby.

2009-07-23 18:17

First Impressions of History

In Pyongyang in 1945, Han Nae-bok went to a stadium to see Kim Il-sung introduced by Soviet handlers for the first time. He doesn't remember much about it. But that's normal, especially for a 19-year-old who probably had more important things on his mind

2009-07-16 17:41

Hope on Mad Cow Disease

When the health ministry issued statistics last weekend showing swine flu cases were up to 286, Koreans took the news in stride.

2009-07-09 17:32

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