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COVID-19's sad anniversary

An important anniversary has slipped by. It was in January 2020, while visiting Hong Kong for a few days, that I started seeing stories about a strange new virus diagnosed in the industrial Chinese city of Wuhan. The first headlines didn't seem like a big deal. Some "experts" were saying the virus had been found in Wuhan and nowhere else.

2021-01-28 16:46

More deaths than births

Fifteen years ago in 2006, David Coleman, a population expert and demographer at the Oxford Centre for Population Research, warned that South Korea could become the first country on the planet to lose its entire population because of its low birthrate.

2021-01-28 16:40

Biden and Korean relations

I'm happy Joseph Biden has begun as the new President of the United States. I think Koreans are too, at least those South of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Among the many challenges of foreign policy facing the United States, relations with North Korea will remain a flash point over the next four years.

2021-01-26 17:08

Strategic engagement with N. Korea

The Biden administration is making it clear that it will review its policy toward North Korea in consultation with allies including South Korea and Japan to develop a new strategy to deter Pyongyang's nuclear program, according to White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki last Friday.

2021-01-25 17:36

'Workable words'

“Go big or go home” is a saying meant to challenge people to do bigger things, but are there other options? It seems if you aren't trying to go viral, win a championship, or save the whole world that you are just spinning your wheels.

2021-01-25 17:23

Freedom of 'anonymous' expression?

Freedom of expression is enshrined in the constitutions of all democratic nations, but does that mean that there is also a freedom to express oneself anonymously?

2021-01-24 18:17

Compensation for victims of car accidents

An SUV suddenly cut off a city bus as it left a stop in Jinju City, South Gyeongsang Province, on Dec. 16, 2019. The bus screeched to a halt, causing a passenger - a high school girl - to fly head-first into the metallic fare box inside the vehicle. The girl suffered severe injuries that left her a quadriplegic. The driver of the SUV received a one-year prison sentence.

2021-01-24 18:13

Dealing with Biden

Together, North and South Korea confront Joe Biden with what may be the most unnerving foreign policy problems of his presidency.

2021-01-21 17:06

Korea-Japan relations in doldrums

A recent court ruling over a key historical issue between South Korea and Japan has emerged as another major impediment to Seoul-Tokyo ties. On Jan. 8, the Seoul Central District Court ruled in favor of South Korean victims of Japan's wartime sex slavery, ordering the Japanese government to pay 100 million won ($91,500) in compensation to each of the 12 victims who had filed ...

2021-01-19 16:53

Putting down markers

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made his opening bid in dealing with the new administration of President Joe Biden at the eighth congress of the ruling Workers' Party, which ended last week. The congress was deliberately held before Biden's inauguration this week to send a message on how Pyongyang views the situation.

2021-01-18 17:00

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