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Park Moo-jong

Regrets on Teachers' Day

British singer Lulu expresses deep respect and love for her teacher in the song, “To Sir, With Love,” in the 1967 British film of the same title featuring Sidney Poitier who instills in his poverty-stricken and unruly teenagers a belief in themselves and respect for one another at a London East End school.

2016-05-12 16:57

Home sweet home

May is the queen of the seasons for it is young and fresh. As Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), an English poet, stated in “The Canterbury Tales,” “He was as fresh as is the month of May.”

2016-05-05 15:59

Prostitution as a crime again

While the public's interest was on the April 13 general election, around the end of March an important court ruling was given that seemed to concern people less. The Constitutional Court reconfirmed on March 31 that the criminal punishment of both buyers and sellers of sex was legal, turning down a "voluntary" sex worker's suit calling for the Special Law on Prostitution to be ruled unconstitutional.

2016-04-28 16:56

Results of public polls: 'Really?'

We are living in the age of distrust. One of the most popular words during talks between youngsters these days is certainly "really?"

2016-04-21 16:44

Dear lawmakers-elect!

The 20th parliamentary election is over and the jubilant 300 winners of the “all or nothing” contest will be sworn in as National Assembly members on May 30 to take charge of the nation for the coming four years.

2016-04-14 16:29

What we learn from English newspaper

Yesterday, April 7, was the 60th Newspaper Day, established in 1957 to honor the founding day in 1896 of the nation's first independent newspaper the “Dongnip Sinmun” (Independent Newspaper).

2016-04-07 16:20

Realizing $30,000 per capita income

As expected, the national per capita income dropped to $27,340 last year, decreasing by $731 or 2.6 percent from 2014, thus failing to hit the $30,000 mark again for nine years since it first entered the much-awaited $20,000 range in 2006.

2016-03-31 16:22

Paradise of syndromes

Korean society is full of syndromes thanks to the mass media's thoughtless abuse of English. The "difficult" term was known to Koreans, except for medical people, 35 years ago when the first patient of AIDS or acquired immune deficiency syndrome was found in 1981 in the United States. Syndrome is a combination of medical problems that shows the existence of a particular diseases or mental condition.

2016-03-24 16:25

We are the champions

When people were talking about AI (artificial intelligence), at first I thought they meant avian influenza (also AI in abbreviation here) that did enormous damage to the nation's poultry industry a decade ago. But the topic was science and the Oriental board game go - to my great relief.

2016-03-17 16:32

Better late than never

Do you have a bucket list? As we all know, a bucket list is a list of activities someone wants to do before they "kick the bucket," namely die.

2016-03-10 17:13

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Top 10 Stories

1	Korean firms balk at donating to fund compensating victims of Japan's forced labor

2	Main opposition leader indicted, faces calls to resign

3	World water day

4	Sexual assaults by Korean diplomats continue despite zero-tolerance policy

5	Outback Steakhouse sees sales soar as it opens stores in large shopping malls

6	Consumers choose to travel abroad over purchasing luxury goods

7	INTERVIEWRetired FSC chief finds inspiration exploring Koreans' ancestral roots

8	Korean pension fund hit by overseas banking crisis

9	Autistic golfer appointed as ambassador of veterans ministry-affiliated country club

10	Samsung, SK avoid worst-case scenario as US 'guardrails' are less stringent than feared

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