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Sun, January 17, 2021 | 13:15
Editorial
Seoul's top court Thursday confirmed a 20-year prison term for former President Park Geun-hye, wrapping up years of trials. The verdict came three years and nine months after she...
South Korea saw nearly 220,000 jobs last year disappear from 2019, the largest loss since 1998 when the country was hit by the Asian financial crisis. The employment shock stemme...
Thoughts of the Times
Around one year ago, I published a few articles here about the absurd criminal trial that I, my wife and a very honorable senior couple we...
Arthur I. Cyr President Vladimir Putin of Russia held his traditional year-end press conference on Dec. 17. The annual show is certainly p...
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
As someone who was born in North Korea, it is so unexpected for me to be speaking about the Giving Tuesday movement that started in the Un...
Even small children are starting to sense that we live in an age when literally none of the information provided is reliable or believable...
As I scrolled through my social media this week, a single hashtag kept appearing: #SorryJung-in. The nation was experiencing a collective ...
In the past, it was customary to present small gifts for the New Year - usually merchants presented their valued customers with calendars ...
Columns
Donald Kirk
For the U.S., the worst is yet to come, and that's not just over the few days before Joe Biden's inauguration next Wednesday (Jan. 20) as ...
Park Moo-jong
The Republic of Korea has a shameful political legacy: All 11 former presidents lived or are living unhappy lives after their forced or le...
On Jan. 6, a crowd of Donald Trump supporters illegally captured the Capitol and temporarily stalled the democratic process. It apparently...
The madness and treason that's consumed the Party of Trump has a face: And it belongs to a former Pennsylvania state lawmaker. On Jan. 6, ...
As I worked from home the other day, I called my dad who told me he was contemplating turning on the TV. I was a bit surprised because he ...
On Jan. 20, Joseph Biden will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States of America. However, thinking of the enormous tasks a...
Triage is always crude and messy, and there are always mistakes, but the goal is to save as many lives as possible in an emergency when th...
Bernard Rowan
This past week, I'm sure I heard the Statues of Liberty crying. There is the famous statue in New York, and there are others. We name them...
Last week's Democratic Party capture of the U.S. Senate has focused minds on the implications for President-elect Joe Biden's domestic pol...
Tong Kim
In a report to the Eighth Congress of the Workers Party last week, Chairman Kim Jong-un declared that North Korea has completed a reliable...
Cartoons
Second impeachment
What conscience?
Tribune Service
A tad late, the revolt has finally arrived.
In voting to impeach President Donald Trump - for a second time - Wednesday (local time) the House responded in the only responsible way it could to Trump's outrageous ...
Health workers are of course the people who need COVID-19 vaccinations first. They are the ones most likely to be exposed, and their expertise is needed to vaccinate th...
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