Opinion
Fri, February 3, 2023 | 17:15
Editorial
Since he took office eight months ago, President Yoon Suk Yeol has maintained a hardline stance against North Korea.
Medical doctors comprise one of the most complex and elusive groups in Korea.
Thoughts of the Times
These days I have been reading a verse from the Book of Matthew (7:7) again and again over several weeks, because these words struck me ve...
The reason we live life is happiness. But we do not know what happiness is, and we do not know what we live for. South Korea currently ran...
Blogs
In Korea, the New Year began with change and trepidation. December had been brutally cold but the first week of January 1898 was pleasantl...
Language is magic. It creates ideas, places, people and smells. With words we summon both the past and the future; we explore the oceans, ...
Korea, in the early months of 1885, was in turmoil. A failed coup attempt in December 1884 resulted in large numbers of Japanese and Chine...
Read something in the mainstream press and Confucianism will likely be linked to any or all of the following situations: the crash of Asia...
If you want to write a book and it is the two of you writing it, you have to work together a lot, share a lot. It is challenging, especial...
Columns
. Donald Kirk
LONDON - Prince Harry's book “Spare,” about his terrible tiffs with higher-ups in the British royal family, including the “heir” to the th...
The First World War is widely recognized as the first great civilizational crisis of the industrial age. Breaking out in a Europe that had...
The International Day of Education (Jan. 24) is a good time to reflect on education's essential role in achieving a peaceful and prosperou...
The good news is many Republicans want to leave Donald Trump in the dust. The bad news is so many of them are just as odious.
Eugene Lee
Amid rising commodity and energy prices and falling property prices, Korea is reeling from the burden of decreasing exports and a deprecia...
Is globalization coming back to life? That was the big question at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, where WEF founder K...
. Mark Peterson
In my last article I wrote a semi-optimistic, semi-pessimistic piece about the new year. I was optimistic that it would be a post-pandemic...
Chyung Eun-ju, Joel Cho
News outlets have been buzzing about “Metaverse Seoul,” as it became the first municipal government that offers a full-service on the virt...
Before Republicans agreed to elect Kevin McCarthy Speaker House, a handful of his colleagues demanded the implementation of a fiscal frame...
Lee Jong-eun
As the world begins 2023, the geopolitical situation around the world is not bright. In Europe, the Russia-Ukraine War has dragged on for ...
Cartoons
Green comet in February skies
Bad cops
Tribune Service
Every generation has angst over what a particular cultural shift is doing to the minds of our youth. When I was a kid in the mid-'80s, it was Tipper Gore and the Parent...
The possibility that a COVID infection could damage your brain is terrifying. Scientists have established that long COVID often manifests itself with neurological chang...
A new extra-curricular activity is offering students another option to further their careers.The News-Capital recently interviewed McAlester High School STEM teacher an...
Today in History


1690-1st paper money in America issued (colony of Massachusetts)

1919-League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)

1919-Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)

1942-1st Japanese air raid on Java

1966-1st soft landing on the Moon (Soviet Luna 9)

1972-US performs nucle...

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