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Editorial
The nation's minimum hourly wage has been set at 9,620 won ($7.41) for next year, an increase of 5 percent from this year. Representatives of the labor and management reached the...
Leaders of South Korea, the United States and Japan got together in Madrid, Spain, on Wednesday and agreed to make combined efforts to jointly tackle the growing threats posed by...
Thoughts of the Times
Although it's been more than seven decades since the 1950-53 Korean War broke out, the United Nations Memorial Park in Busan still evokes ...
On the morning of June 10, I felt extremely fatigued and displayed the symptoms of a bad cold, so strong that I couldn't even eat breakfas...
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
During the country's wettest season, a time that has seen expressways closed and rivers flooded, I make my way every morning to Hanyang Un...
On a beautiful fall afternoon in late October 1894, baseball made its appearance in Seoul. It isn't clear if this was the first baseball g...
Some people access Korea through its literature, others through its movies, its beauty products, its webtoons, or its history. The pathway...
In her diary, on June 16, 1897, Elizabeth Greathouse duly noted that it was a cloudy day but it promised to be a good day for the Royal En...
Columns
. Donald Kirk
The inauguration of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. as president of the Philippines opens a highly controversial period in the convoluted ...
. Jang Da-wool
High temperatures scorched the Earth in June, including in North America, Europe, Russia, India and China. We, people in South Korea, also...
It wasn't that long ago that internet connectivity faded the moment one left a populated area like a city or big town; “no service” was th...
Sandip Kumar Mishra
After coming to power, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol proposed the so-called “ABCD strategy” (advance human capital, build health se...
In Beijing now, even the Biden administration may be singing in a new key. In recent weeks, its new Ambassador Nicholas Burns has posed fo...
To millions of oblivious Americans, “democracy” is just an abstraction conjured by dead men in powdered wigs, and “fascism” is just someth...
I once saw readers of The Korea Times from other countries commenting on an article about the money given as a gift at weddings here. The article was about the frustration of peo...
Having witnessed the reality and consequences of the Russia-Ukraine conflict - a potentially long and protracted war with the specter of n...
. Steven L. Shields
My upbringing as a Christian in the United States has formed my understanding of my moral obligation since childhood. I don't always get i...
Lee Jong-eun
This month marks the Korean War's 72nd anniversary, a key defining event in the Cold War. Years ago, when I first read, “The Origins of th...
Cartoons
Earth takes another blow
SCOTUS Right Out
Tribune Service
A recent wave of media attention has pointed to a toxic workplace culture in much of the Washington, D.C., political ecosystem. From the viral “Dear White Staffers” on ...
Overturning Roe v. Wade is not the first time the Supreme Court has driven a dagger into the heart of human rights and further divided a deeply troubled nation. But not...
In the latest chronicles of Big Tech's most contentious tycoon - Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla, founder of SpaceX and self-described “free speech absolutist” - th...
Today in History

1889-Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti

1941-Joe Dimaggio on way to 56, ties Willie Keeler's 44 game hit streak

1946-U..S drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)

1960-Ghana becomes a republic

1962-Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days)

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