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Editorial
A boycott against Coupang is gaining traction after a firefighter was killed in a fire at the e-commerce giant's warehouse in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province. Consumers are expressing ...
Major cryptocurrency exchanges here are speeding up the removal of “alt-coins,” meaning all virtual currencies other than bitcoin. Last weekend, Bithumb, the country's largest cr...
Thoughts of the Times
One of my uncles was smart, studied well and was assigned to teach at an elementary school in Yangyang town on the East Sea coast (in what...
In my Thoughts of the Times piece in The Korea Times, “Loneliness is part of humanity” (February 24, 2021), I received a compassionate and...
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 the latter part of the 1890s, the authorities in Seoul began a campaign to curtail or even eliminate the activities of mudangs (shamans...
What does freedom mean to you? It's easy to ask that question, but extremely hard to answer if you think about it deeply.
Speaking of the French Revolution, the English poet William Wordsworth remarked, “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive. But to be young w...
I grew up in a North Korean coal mining village near Hoeryong, North Hamgyeong Province. I lived there for 21 years until I escaped in sea...
Columns
. Lee Seong-hyon
In addition to the G7, U.S. President Joe Biden's recent visit to Europe consisted of three other summits, with: NATO, the European Union,...
Earlier this month, the Group of Seven (G7) nations' leaders met for the first time in person since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. South ...
. Yang Moo-jin
At the ROK-U.S. summit, the two leaders agreed that diplomacy and dialogue based on existing agreements between the two Koreas and between...
An important new report out of the world-famous policy sweatshop known as the RAND Corporation (a major U.S. bicoastal think tank) at leas...
SANTIAGO - Once a peripheral presence in Latin America, China has become one of the region's most important partners. Bilateral trade expa...
. Mark Peterson
From time to time I'm asked to make a presentation. At times the inviting group chooses a topic; sometimes they allow me to choose. Recent...
. Andrew Hammond
Geneva is home to the European seat of the United Nations and the international headquarters of the Red Cross, yet its unofficial status a...
BRUSSELS - The Swiss government's recent withdrawal from long-running negotiations on a framework agreement with the European Union has tr...
These days, when their daughters are getting married, fathers often say: “We are not losing a daughter, we are gaining a son-in-law.” When...
Japan is under a state of emergency extended through 20 June 2021. The number of COVID-19 infection cases is coming down, but variants are...
Cartoons
Tokyo Olympics 2021 and COVID
Biden and Putin summit
Tribune Service
Last week, as Texans were told to raise their thermostats, unplug electronics and avoid running loads of laundry that might strain our state's fragile power grid, Gov. ...
Rate the U.S.-Russia summit in Geneva as a success for President Joe Biden.
In rejecting yet another in a seemingly endless series of Republican attacks on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Supreme Court did more than just preserve a crucial p...
Today in History

1860-U.S. Secret Service created

1868-Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer"

1944-Thomas Mann becomes a U.S. citizen

1949-1st 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School

1951-Most expensive U.S. hailstorm in Kansas ($1.5 mil. crop damage & $14 mil. property)

1972-Nixon &...

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