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Thu, October 19, 2017 | 03:24

Opinion > Columnists > Andrew Salmon >

The 20th century was the bloodiest in humankind’s experience. Scrawled in red ink across the records of those years, and seared deep into the darkest side of human consciousness, are the names of once-secret sites where appalling crimes were committed by calculating men with sinister agendas: Katyn; Babi Yar; Belzec; Treblinka; Sobibor; Auschwitz; Tuol Sleng.

Andrew Salmon | 2013-05-27 17:21

Enough kimchi; bring on the 'jang'

If ever there was an indication of the international reach of kimchi, this was it.

Andrew Salmon | 2013-05-13 17:38

The ghosts of 'Happy Valley'

Curious motorists driving through a gentle valley northwest of Seoul last Wednesday would have seen an unusual sight. On a patch of cleared ground at a crossroad, local soldiers mingled with a group of frail foreign veterans and foreign troops in dark green uniforms.

Andrew Salmon | 2013-04-29 17:11

Kim wins war of words

From the Pyongyang command bunker, it must be intoxicating.

Andrew Salmon | 2013-04-15 17:23

Dissecting Kim's war declaration

So it's come to this. Stunned newspaper readers worldwide learned on Saturday that Pyongyang had entered "a state of war" with Seoul. War!

Andrew Salmon | 2013-04-01 17:16

The Dennis and Jong-un show

He came; he saw; he got chummy with Asia’s last great dictator.

Andrew Salmon | 2013-03-04 17:17

Richard III and Korean politics

A medieval king seldom makes 21st century front pages, but one who breathed his last on Aug. 22, 1485, has managed it. The discovery of a mutilated skeleton beneath a car park in central England has refocused interest on one of history and literature’s most notorious figures.

Andrew Salmon | 2013-02-18 17:36

'The Chairman is a Gangster'

With hallyu likely to continue wowing global markets in 2013 I am furiously working on a Korea-set feature film script.

Andrew Salmon | 2013-02-04 17:16

Samsung comes of age

You don’t have to hang around Samsung Electronics for long before the word ``innovation” is mentioned. Samsung people love to use it; I am not sure you can even have a chinwag with them without the ``i” word cropping up.

Andrew Salmon | 2013-01-21 17:24

Korea vs. aging

Last year, I and several colleagues from the foreign correspondents’ community interviewed President Lee Myung-bak. A color photograph of the tableau ― the serious-looking president surrounded by several busily scribbling overseas reporters ― duly appeared in a vernacular daily.

Andrew Salmon | 2013-01-07 17:10

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Lunch with Navy sailors