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Tue, October 23, 2018 | 01:17

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Gyeongju is for you!

When I visited Gyeongju, in North Gyeongsang Province, I was in the middle of my first visit to Korea. My best friend, about whom I've written, and a group of other Korean and American friends went with me for several days. We had a great time. As I recall, we stayed in a hotel built under the Korean Teachers Credit Union, which impressed me. We climbed Mt. Namsan. We enjoyed delicious seafood, including clams, in a nearby beach town, Gampo. We trekked to Seokguram and enjoyed the Bulguksa monastery.

Bernard Rowan | 2018-09-30 17:42

Dragon Flight 55 landed softly

In the July 22 issue of this newspaper, I wrote a piece titled “Dragon Flight 55 at K-16 Korea 1965” in which I described the patriotic role that the U.S. Army, 55th Aviation Company, known as Dragon Flight 55, played in Korea during and after the Korean War.

Semoon Chang | 2018-09-30 17:15

Juche as addiction, not ideology

A Mother Jones article titled, “Inside the Radical, Uncomfortable Movement to Reform White Supremacists,” Wes Enzinna writes, “de-radicalization activists argue that much of what the left thinks it knows about shutting down racist extremists is misplaced. When it comes to changing individuals, denunciation may counteract rather than hasten de-radicalization. If that seems like surrender, consider that some researchers who study hate groups think we should view violent extremism not only as a problem of ideology, but also as a problem of addiction: a craving for group identity...”

Jason Lim | 2018-09-28 16:59

On the road to peace

WASHINGTON - The road to peace and reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula is so full of potholes and pitfalls, twists and turns, that it's impossible to imagine where and how the process will end.

Donald Kirk | 2018-09-27 17:48

Too busy to die?

It was five o'clock on a Monday morning of a September day. I went out to a Seoul street in my neighborhood to see how the traffic was there (to write this column). As I expected, the street was already busy with many cars, and buses with more than 10 passengers, dashing to their respective destinations, mostly workplaces.

Park Moo-jong | 2018-09-27 17:30

Heritage project with North Korea

At the recent pre-summit working level meeting held in Gaeseong, they agreed to carry out an eighth joint survey and historical preservation effort at Manwoldae between today and Dec. 27 this year.

Kim Ji-myung | 2018-09-26 17:24

Moon and Trump at the UN

In Seoul this month I talked with government officials, politicians, civic leaders, journalists and infrastructure professionals. My main impression is that the policy environment in the Korean capital feels different from that of previous years. I've been coming here since 1990, so my contacts form a broad cast of characters. With all that is going on, it's a good time to ask: What's the same; what's different?

Stephen Costello | 2018-09-26 17:16

Who am I in 4th Industrial Revolution?

No, I am not writing about one of the oldest and most frustrating questions in human history and spiritual quest. I actually want to explore the topic of identity in the context of the coming 4th Industrial Revolution.

Jason Lim | 2018-09-21 16:52

Awakening from nuclear nightmares

Stephen King, author of global best-selling novels of horror and fantasy, has written about the craving for horror stories, books and films. He thinks all of us are more or less "mentally ill," but most of us hide or sublimate our worst instincts. From there he tries to answer why we sit through horror movies that frighten us.

Donald Kirk | 2018-09-20 17:57

'It's the Education Ministry, stupid'

The headline of this Friday column is “It's the Education Ministry, stupid” as you can see. This could be a sort of series about newly-emerging problems in this society following last week's “It's the statistics, stupid.” The first one was “It's the history, stupid,” three years ago.

Park Moo-jong | 2018-09-20 17:48

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