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Sat, September 30, 2023 | 16:21
Self-help?
Once when I was walking out of the British Library, I saw a woman outside on the floor having some kind of fit or seizure. It was a wintery evening - it may even have been snowy if I remember correctly - and the library was just closing, so there were dozens, perhaps hundreds, of people all leaving through the main entrance, hurrying to beat the rush-hour traffic. And althoug...
Parchment Made of Sheepskins
| 2022-04-16 11:50
White House Easter Egg Roll returns after 2-year hiatus
Ukraine needs Korea's support
Time goes past so quickly. Dear reader, you may not remember, but last month everyone was fixated on the Beijing Olympics. Look, she's wearing a hanbok! Hey, the referees are biased! Let's boycott the Games! It all feels like another age, an innocent time of relative peace when no world leaders were ominously hinting at nuclear war.
Parchment Made of Sheepskins
| 2022-03-12 09:33
Hanbok stealing?
Nearly everyone in Korea is furious, it seems, because a Chinese national woman in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics opening ceremony wore the traditional Korean dress, hanbok. Numerous editorials and opinions have been published in condemnation, calling it another item in the long list of China's aggressions toward Korea. Last year it was kimchi, the argument goes; this year ...
Parchment Made of Sheepskins
| 2022-02-12 11:46
Behind China-Korea skating row, a deeper cultural rift
Stop giving us unnecessary drugs
Almost immediately after moving to Korea, I developed pretty unpleasant stomach problems, probably related to the stress of migrating to the other side of the world. Although it did not seem serious, it certainly wiped me out for a while.
Parchment Made of Sheepskins
| 2022-01-15 09:30
Korea's strict asylum policies and unkind officials
I once flew in an Airbus A380. It's a big plane, so big that it actually has two decks; in fact, it's the largest passenger plane in the world.
Parchment Made of Sheepskins
| 2021-12-12 13:24
Reform 'Suneung'
Last week saw Korea's yearly university admissions exam take place, accompanied as usual by an autumnal flurry of headlines. Given the world's current obsession with Korea, it's hardly a surprise that the test made international headlines. The test's English name is the College Scholastic Ability Test, or CSAT, but it is known more commonly as the “Suneung.” The news often hi...
Parchment Made of Sheepskins
| 2021-11-27 14:44
Expert criticizes Korea's college entrance exam for being too difficult
Our obsession with unreal beauty
Somewhere to the right of this text there is a picture of me. It's publicly visible, but on the rare occasions that I go outside, I can stroll the streets, dodging the motorbikes and busses safe in the confidence that any beloved Korea Times reader who happens to pass me will almost certainly fail to recognize me.
Parchment Made of Sheepskins
| 2021-11-06 09:32
Korean language is not degrading - it's evolving
Hangeul Day 2021 is, sadly, over. The last crumbs of the “batchim”-themed cakes have been swept away, the Hangeul board games are back in the cupboard gathering dust, the balloons in the shapes of “nieun” and “rieul” lie deflated in the corner. Yet, as this year's celebration of King Sejong's ingenious alphabet system fades into memory, we can't seem to escape from news and o...
Parchment Made of Sheepskins
| 2021-10-23 09:10
The reality of adopting a kitten in Korea
Since our wedding, my wife and I have been thinking about getting a cat - by which I mean that I've been trying to convince my wife to let us get one. And last week, after over two years of careful consideration (pleading), we (my wife) finally decided that we were ready.
Parchment Made of Sheepskins
| 2021-09-25 09:31
What does tolerance even mean?
We live, it seems, in divided times. I suppose we always have, but in the past few years the social ruptures have become noticeably deeper and more severe. So partisan and so divided are we today that people living on the same street or in the same town experience vastly different realities. Former U.S. President Barack Obama has spoken on this several times, reflecting that ...
Parchment Made of Sheepskins
| 2021-09-11 09:17
Guide to Chuseok celebrations across Korea
Chuseok exodus begins ahead of extended 6-day holiday
Korea sees record-low births in July
Hyundai E&C to build upmarket apartment complex in Seoul's Gwanak District
Political battle intensifies after court rejects Lee's arrest warrant
Korea on track to prove esports prowess at Asian Games
[INTERVIEW] Risk-averse culture is forcing daring creators to flee showbiz
Lotte focuses on health care, mobility to spur growth
DMZ Open Int'l Music Festival to be held in Goyang in November
Two Koreas trade barbs over nuclear war
[PHOTOS] Trapped along borders