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Thu, November 21, 2019 | 19:31

Park Moo-jong

Payola and fair competition

Entering the second half of his five-year term, President Moon Jae-in has vowed anew to mobilize every possible measure to enhance the level of fairness in all sectors of Korean society. Then, what does fairness exactly mean? All the dictionaries define it in terms of justice: impartial and just treatment or behavior without favoritism or discrimination toward one side or another.

2019-11-14 16:59

How to fight obesity

Just two months are left until the turbulent year of 2019 disappears into history. Around this time of every year, many of us look back on what we have done over the past days of the year. What comes to mind first are our “ambitious” New Year resolutions we made 10 months ago about our health problems.

2019-10-31 18:45

North Korea's own goal

There were no spectators, no live TV coverage, no reporters, no grass pitch and no goals for a bizarre South and North Korean football match to qualify for the 2022 Qatar World Cup in the entirely empty Kim Il-sung Stadium in Pyongyang, Tuesday.

2019-10-17 17:14

Society sans respected elders

When Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, the nation's first Roman Catholic cardinal, who was a signature guiding star of South Koreans in their crusade for democracy for three decades, passed away 10 years ago in 2009 at the age of 86, many people lamented that they had lost their final “respected elder.”

2019-10-03 17:05

Hypocritical behavior

We Koreans often use “nae-ro nam-bul,” an expression certain to make non-Korean speakers tilt their heads and question: “What does this mean?” It is a coined Korean term (with an English word inserted), a four-syllable abbreviation from “naega hamyeon, 'romance'; nami hamyeon, bullyun.” In short, it means: “If I love someone, it is a romance; but if others do, it is an affair.”

2019-09-19 16:06

Common sense society

Common sense is the talk of the town, regarding the ongoing unproductive and consumptive brawls over the qualifications of Cho Kuk, a former senior presidential secretary for civil affairs, to take the justice minister post as nominated by President Moon Jae-in.

2019-09-05 17:30

Flood of banners on streets

When it comes to pollution, we are almost always reminded of air, water or noise, all of which are directly related to our living. Yet, we have been ignoring a deep-rooted evil or public nuisance unwittingly for decades: “pollution of banners on streets.”

2019-08-22 17:09

Brazen-faced Juventus and Ronaldo

Two weeks have passed since Christiano Ronaldo of Juventus enraged Koreans by not taking to the pitch for the Italian football clubs' pre-season game against a K League All-Stars in Seoul in a breach of contract requiring the Portuguese “superstar” to play at least 45 minutes.

2019-08-08 16:35

Abe grows worse

Four years ago, I wrote a column titled “Abe's absurd, abnormal remarks” after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe desperately distorted historical facts about Korea-Japan relations in an apparent bid to win the support of far right-wingers.

2019-07-25 17:03

Coward politicians

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), a French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian, left an immortal saying in his posthumous collection of fragments on theology and philosophy, “Pensees (Thoughts)” published in 1670: “Man is a reed, the weakest of nature, but he is a thinking reed.”

2019-07-11 17:11

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