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Thu, November 26, 2020 | 10:10
Editorial
Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae has certainly gone too far in her fight against Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl. On Tuesday, she suspended Yoon from duty over alleged “misdeeds.” S...
Major commercial banks are scrambling to cut their unsecured loan balance prematurely following the government's announcement of a plan to tighten its debt service ratio (DSR) re...
Thoughts of the Times
Many pundits say that anyone with the right aptitude can exhibit leadership regardless of their position, because leadership comes from ps...
We see an enormous amount of waste piled up every day in front of each apartment building here in Korea. After looking at the waste one da...
China Watcher
Difficulty knocks on the door out of nowhere. Adversity comes in many forms. We all bound to face hardships from which it seems there is n...
Blogs
In 1884, the handful of Americans living in Korea celebrated American Thanksgiving in a rather humble manner. According to Horace Allen - ...
They seem to be everywhere in Seoul - great flocks of pigeons swirling through the air in search of food or a place to roost. Some people ...
Often when there is a tragedy, the community comes together and grieves, honors the memories of those who are lost - often with a monument...
On November 13, 1895, Korea's autumn, as well as the lives of 48 young English sailors and marines, suddenly ended with an icy cold wind f...
Columns
Fifty years have passed since a young garment worker and labor activist burned himself to death in a Seoul market to protest the exploitat...
Late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee was an asset, not only for Samsung but for Korea and the world. He was undoubtedly a first-class b...
Korea relies heavily on foreign trade. However, due to growing trade protectionism around the world and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, mor...
Lee Seong-hyon
There is a learning curve for Korean journalists when it comes to Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign minister. In the past, when Wang visited Se...
More Americans voted in the 2020 presidential election than in any previous election. In a speech, President-elect Joseph Biden pledged to...
There is a slogan for firefighting in Korea that says: “Fire alarms are the sound of life.” This shows the importance of notifying as many...
John Burton
If there was one overarching theme about President Donald Trump's policy toward Asia, it was growing power competition with China. This wa...
China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and more than 10 other Asia-Pacific countries signed on Nov. 15 the Regional Comprehensive Economic P...
MADRID - There is an eternal debate about how much leadership and personality matter in international relations. But after the turbulence ...
The dramatic U.S. presidential election that captured global attention has virtually finished. Former Vice President Joe Biden declared vi...
Cartoons
Wall Street elation
Thanksgiving transition
Tribune Service
Global challenges won't wait for President Donald Trump to accept his clear defeat. So President-elect Joe Biden has been wise not to wait either, especially when it co...
One of the most frustrating aspects of the pandemic has been watching school districts try to navigate the complexities of remote learning with so little guidance from ...
President Donald Trump's wholesale removal of the top civilian leadership of the Defense Department almost certainly isn't the coup-in-the-making that some of his criti...
Today in History

1716-First lion exhibited in America (Boston)

1789-First U.S. national thanksgiving celebrated

1865-Alice in Wonderland published

1868-First baseball game played in enclosed field in San Francisco, at 25th & Folsom

1924-Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed

1940-Nazis force 500,000 W...

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