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Tue, March 9, 2021 | 01:19
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South Korea and the United States began a two-day springtime combined military exercise Monday. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the allies decided to scale down the computer...
The state audit agency has concluded that there were no procedural problems in the Moon Jae-in administration's nuclear phase-out policy. Announcing the results of its inspection...
Thoughts of the Times
Spring is all but here, and more people may be inclined to go outside to exercise. When I visit a golf driving range, I hear people chatti...
The United Nations proclaimed Feb. 4 to be celebrated as “the International Day of Human Fraternity.” Together with Ahmad al-Tayyeb, Grand...
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
An acquaintance once told me I should buy some bitcoin. I think it was some time in 2015, when the price was around $330. This time last y...
A little over a century ago, straw was an invaluable material on the peninsula. It was used to cover houses and make bags, mats, clothing ...
Because of its geographical circumstance, Korea has long been an export nation. Once merely the supplier of cheap t-shirts and shoes, it n...
Working with Freedom Speakers International (FSI) and the U.S. Embassy has been one of the best experiences I have ever had. As someone fo...
Columns
John Burton
It will be nearly a year from now when Korea holds its next presidential election on March 9, 2022. The last year in office usually proves...
CAMBRIDGE - When China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, recently called for a reset of bilateral relations with the United States, a White Hou...
“America is back” proclaimed President Joe Biden multiple times before and after his inauguration. An intensive policy review is now under...
Jason Lim
In his “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution” speech given at the National Cathedral on March 31, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King utter...
BEIJING - With the arrival of U.S. President Joe Biden's administration, calls for a fresh allocation of special drawing rights (SDRs), th...
Donald Kirk
The suffering inflicted on Korea by Japan lives on in exhibits in the Seoul Museum of History about the nightmare of Japanese rule.
Choi Sung-jin
On Monday morning, I watched the nationally televised ceremony celebrating the 102nd anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement.
Please be so kind as to look closely at the photo attached to this story. It was taken in a Christian church in Pyongyang in the first dec...
America must understand that China is different, emphasized the late Lee Kuan Yew when some 25 years ago I asked Singapore's iconic modern...
Get this: A study by McGill University has found that more money does not necessarily make people in low-income countries happier.
Cartoons
Coronavirus relief bill
Cancel culture
Tribune Service
In my house, we have a problem. My wife has been vaccinated; I haven't.
At $7.25 an hour, the federal minimum wage is appallingly low.
Before anyone gets too excited about schools supposedly reopening on April 1, that's unlikely to happen in much of California under the terms of the deal that Gov. Gavi...
Today in History

1562-Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)

1820-Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die

1822-Charles M Graham of New York patents artificial teeth

1860-First Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington D.C.

1918-Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Par...

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