Opinion
Tue, October 15, 2019 | 16:37
Lee Ho-seung, senior presidential secretary for economic affairs, said Sunday that the Korean economy was “doing a rel...
The brouhaha over new Justice Minister Cho Kuk appears to end as he announced his resignation Monday. The announcement...
At the start of October, the European Court of Justice handed down an important decision regarding Facebook that should be generating extensive debate, but so far has n...
Humanity always finds a way to extricate itself out of a crisis. As soon as the danger is gone, however, an era of complacency follows. We...
As a frequent participant at international conferences, I am well aware that the success of a meeting is in excellent presentation. Howeve...

1520-King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall

1655-Jews of Lublin are massacred

1860-11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard

1878-Edison Electric Light Company incorporated

1923-NY Yankees first World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2 (World Series #20)

1937-Ernest Hemingway novel “To Have & Have Not” published

1951-“I Love Lucy” debuts on CBS TV

1959-“Untouchables” premieres

1969-Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war

1977-Debbie Boone's “You Light Up My Life” goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks

1983-U.S. Marine sharpshooters kill five snipers at Beirut Intl Airport
1985-Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit


1988-Amnesty International's Global Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires

1989-Billy Graham is given the 1,900th star on Hollywood Blvd.

1989-South African President FW de Klerk frees Sisulu & four other political prisoners

Since the so-called “no-deal” summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi in February, Washington-Pyongyang relations have remained te...
There are a few, though not yet many, Republicans openly furious with beleaguered President Donald Trump for seemingly asking Beijing to join his re-election campaign, in effect,...
At times I encounter among Koreans the assumption that Korean society is moving in a direction that will cause it increasingly to resemble...
As we live a life on earth, competition is inevitable. It is because resources are limited in supply while our want is unlimited. Neverthe...
Are Koreans willing to pay more for a cleaner planet? That is the challenge the country faces as its struggles with the dilemma of deliver...
Every Friday morning I teach a 3-hour Politics class to 70 undergrad students at one of Seoul's top universities. Despite the early start,...
My English is so bad. Please don’t let people know I am studying English now. After I arrived in South Korea I had surgery done on my eyes...
In 1910, Korean tiger stories were very popular in American newspapers. One newspaper reported, “It appears that since the Japanese occupa...
The United States faces an unmitigated catastrophe in Northeast Asia today that is the result of a thoughtless trade war with China, compa...
Kurds are screwed
Basketball in China
Donald J. Trump will go down in history as fully complicit in Turkish war crimes. Unless, that is, he picks up his phone and tells Turkish...
OK, look we started off with one whistleblower in the Donald Trump impeachment inquisition, excuse me, inquiry, but he or she is in hiding...
Poor Daryl Morey. Just three days ago, the Houston Rockets general manager was best known for having one of the NBA's winningest career records and for pioneering analy...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who's been hard at work pursuing the dark forces behind the FBI investigation into Russian interference in ...