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Michael Breen

When victims need to apologize

When the son of Korea’s first president, Syngman Rhee, this week tried to pay his respects and apologize at the graves of students killed in the April 19 protests in 1960 that ended his father’s rule, he was jostled and blocked from entering the cemetery.

2011-04-21 16:56

Is it right to reject aid for NK?

When Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, suggested last week that South Korea ``positively consider” food aid for North Korea, the reply was NGOs, yes, but government, no.

2011-04-14 17:10

NK back on US terror state list?

Were the torpedoing of the Cheonan and the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island last year acts of terrorism?

2011-04-07 17:19

Dangun diaries?

SEOUL, April 1 ― The diaries of Dangun, the founding king of Korea, have resurfaced some 2,000 years after their unexplained disappearance from a library near Mt. Baekdu.

2011-03-31 17:26

Your country doesnt trust you

Here’s a riddle: If all men under 35 with dual citizenship must do national service, who among them may choose not to without being punished?

2011-03-24 17:29

Gods warning to Rev. Cho

After the devastating earthquake and tsunamis last week, the world became Japanese. And, I might say, that in becoming so, people felt improved. No population on the planet, it seemed, could respond to tragedy and chaos on this scale with such self-containment and civic orderliness.

2011-03-17 17:01

Does God support Islamic bonds?

When two religions clash, which side is God on?

2011-03-10 17:25

Attack with instant noodles

North Korea issued two warnings last weekend. The first claimed this week’s military exercises in the South were a rehearsal for an invasion. It threatened ``merciless counteraction” to turn Seoul into a ``sea of flames.”

2011-03-03 16:32

Punish the thieves

The whole country, it would appear, is now convinced that the mysterious intruders who broke into the Seoul hotel room of a visiting Indonesian official last week were from the South Korean National Intelligence Service.

2011-02-24 18:24

Koreans should be proud

In an interview in this newspaper this week, National Assemblywoman Song Young-sun said her goal as a politician is to make Koreans proud of their country.

2011-02-17 16:35

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