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Mon, October 23, 2017 | 15:06

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The shorter, the better?

A comparatively early summer has started with weathermen predicting unusual heat this year due to climate change following global warming. Scorchers naturally force people, particularly, women, to wear “bolder” clothing. Hot pants and miniskirts are already getting shorter.

Park Moo-jong | 2016-06-02 16:48

Driving for revenge

The recent talk of the town is road rage meaning an automobile driver's aggressive or angry behavior that could lead to altercations, assaults and collisions that result in injuries and even death. In Korean terms, we call it "driving for revenge." What angers drivers on roads and causes their "illegal'' retaliatory driving?

Park Moo-jong | 2016-05-26 16:38

Major League 'Ho Trio'

Korean baseball fans are happy these days, especially during the busy morning hours when they are preparing to go to work or to school thanks to Major League Baseball players from their country. As a famous girl group member asked “jokingly” or “ignorantly” some years ago why they were playing soccer so early in the morning always (in Europe) and so she could not go to bed. Many Koreans may want MLB games to be held in the morning there in the United States. Baseball is everyday life along with American football in the United States, boasting of more than a 100 years tradition and history.

Park Moo-jong | 2016-05-19 16:40

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.

Park Moo-jong | 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.”

Park Moo-jong | 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.

Park Moo-jong | 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?"

Park Moo-jong | 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.

Park Moo-jong | 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).

Park Moo-jong | 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.

Park Moo-jong | 2016-03-31 16:22

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Lunch with Navy sailors