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Tue, September 28, 2021 | 09:38

The booming eighties

The 1980s were an exciting time to be in booming Seoul, with Koreans and expat English teachers alike hustling for a better economic life. Everyone was looking forward to the 1988 Summer Olympics, the first professional baseball game was played in the old Dongdaemun Stadium on a cold blustery day in March 1982, and the bane of dictatorship was relegated to the dustbin of hist...

2021-09-15 16:54

Our promise to leave clean air for our children

Here comes a story of our children from past to present. In a national children's art contest in the 1970s, an artwork depicting black polluted water streams painted by a child living by a coal mine was selected for the grand prize. This painting depicted the severe water pollution caused by the waste from the coal mines at that time.

2021-09-14 16:58

Summer ends with nightmarish news

Summer traditionally ends in a most un-august manner, lulling us lazily and newslessly into a faux placidity. Somehow it always ends immediately after Labor Day with the eruption of a back-to-the-grindstone mentality.

2021-09-14 16:57

Chinese style data privacy

China has just passed a major data-privacy law. Inspired by the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, China's Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) comprises a far-reaching set of rules governing how tech companies handle user data.

2021-09-13 17:00

The search for origins is also a search for dignity

What began as a three-month vacation in 2004 eventually evolved into a permanent move. Instead of a birth family search, I came to Korea to see and experience a country that I could feel but never remember.

2021-09-11 09:20

What difference did 9/11 make?

The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were a horrific shock. Images of trapped victims leaping from the Twin Towers are indelible, and the intrusive security measures introduced in the wake of the attacks have long since become a fact of life.

2021-09-09 16:58

Taliban perpetuate Muslim world's failed governance paradigm

The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan perpetuates a paradigm of failed governance in the Muslim world based on a centuries-old alliance between Islamic scholars and the state that, according to scholar Ahmet T Kuru, explains underdevelopment in many Muslim-majority states and authoritarianism in most.

2021-09-09 16:47

COVID-19 minefield trip back to Korea

Returning to Korea from the U.S. this past summer was like navigating a minefield. Were the stars above conspiring to prevent me from coming back? From initially not being able to take the mandatory COVID-19 test to being stranded at the airport with a cancelled flight to being told I wouldn't be able to board a subsequent flight even after finally getting the test and then f...

2021-09-09 16:36

'Opening vault: donations from 21 collectors'

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of its opening, the National Gugak Center is holding a special exhibition, “Opening the Vault: Initial Showing of Donations from 21 Collectors,” along with the immersive digital artwork “Royal Banquet” (Jinyeon), at the Gugak Museum from Sept. 11, 2021 through Feb. 27, 2022.

2021-09-09 16:30

Afghan tragedy and age of unpeace

The images of desperate Afghans scaling the perimeter fence at Kabul's airport in an attempt to flee Taliban rule provide a heartbreaking record of our geopolitical moment. The brutal way in which the West's former allies in Afghanistan are being left to their fate encapsulates the determination of U.S. President Joe Biden's administration to shed old international commitment...

2021-09-08 17:00

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