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Mon, October 3, 2022 | 11:55
Editorial
Consumers and businesses will feel a higher burden from their energy use after the government increased utility charges Oct. 1. Last Friday, the government decided to raise elect...
The Supreme Court ruled last Thursday that the state should compensate former sex workers at now-defunct brothels near U.S. military bases. The top court said the government shou...
Thoughts of the Times
Chuseok, in a nutshell, is a festivity of the full moon, a gathering of family members, a homage to parents with gifts, the preparation of...
I arrived in South Korea for the first time on July 23, 2004, at the tender age of 31. I had no idea of the adventures that awaited me for...
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 late fall of 1897, the general Korean population was worried about the ever-increasing prices in local markets. Housewives were qui...
“It might be a stereotype but I've always had the impression that Korean students are quite robotic. That they just study. Lack creativity...
Farmers have always played a vital role in society, but in the late 19th century, they were often overlooked by the pens of visiting Weste...
They say everyone loves a parade - especially a military parade. In late 1888, Frank G. Carpenter, an American travel writer, had the oppo...
Columns
. Jason Lim
It seems as if everything is going to hell all at once. You have the Russia-Ukraine war, with the always constant threat of a catastrophic...
A nuclear specter is haunting Europe once again. On Sept. 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a mobilization of some 300,000 rese...
Vladimir Putin's desperation was plain to see in the emergency measures he declared last week: immediate mobilization of at least 300,000 ...
It has been more than seven months since the war in Ukraine broke out. Europe is suffering from the most tragic conflict since World War I...
Africa is on the cusp of an economic transformation. 2050, consumer and business spending on the continent is expected to reach roughly $1...
Several recent public opinion surveys send a mixed message to autocratic reformers in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, w...
Lee Jong-eun
This month, while the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit was being held, the Global Times, an English-language Chinese newspap...
. John J. Metzler
Amid a swirl of ongoing and upcoming international crises, the Ukraine war overwhelmingly dominated debate at the United Nations General A...
. John Burton
Busan Mayor Park Heong-joon's ambition to turn his city into a center of English-speaking Koreans is a laudable one, but it will also be d...
Eugene Lee
Today, the world is a huge hodgepodge of people of different sorts, constantly moving from one corner to another. Among these nomads are g...
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Tribune Service
From the moment Russian forces began their widespread missile barrage against Ukrainian targets in February, the United States and Europe have sought to rally the world...
President Joe Biden's foreign policy deserves higher marks than most have given it. Biden boldly pulled the plug on the Afghanistan quagmire, so that Americans could st...
Deadly wildfires. Unprecedented flooding. Major hurricanes. With exponential growth in devastating weather events predicted for the upcoming decades, the changing clima...
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