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Wed, October 28, 2020 | 04:04
Editorial
The economy recorded a modest rebound in the third quarter, temporarily ending a COVID-19 triggered slump. It is welcome news many people have aspired to hear amid the spread of ...
Hanjin Transportation has decided to do away with overnight parcel delivery services starting next month. The decision by Korea's second-largest logistics company came amid growi...
Thoughts of the Times
Is online learning working as well as in-person, classroom instruction? The short answer is no. However, like any new rubric or technology...
The attempts which are made to establish the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, are akin to launching quests to capture a will-o'-the...
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 19th century, finding a place for the dead to rest in peace often led to conflict and sometimes death.
Smoking marijuana in South Korea is a big no-no. We all know that. Actually, if you are a South Korean, smoking marijuana anywhere in the ...
Ernest Jacob Oppert, a German merchant in Shanghai, is perhaps one of the most infamous Westerners in Joseon history. He and his co-conspi...
In the fall, the Jeongdong area of Seoul is one of the most beautiful places in the downtown area for a quick afternoon stroll. The whispe...
Columns
Chinese leader Xi Jinping joined the pack of historians and scholars who, over the years, have attempted to present a different interpreta...
Casey Lartigue, Jr.
There's an old joke about an American businessman giving a speech in China that greatly amused students at the Seoul University of Foreign...
NEW YORK - The international community urgently needs new tools, ideas, and initiatives to meet the common threats and challenges faced by...
John Burton
While President Moon Jae-in has been praised for his handling of the COVID-19 outbreak, his efforts to address another global issue - clim...
Europe has been jolted yet again in recent days becoming - for the second time - the epicenter of the pandemic. Yet while most attention i...
MADRID - When Donald Trump became the U.S. Republican Party's presidential nominee in 2016, many predicted that he would tone down his inf...
Mark Peterson
My previous article, “End of han,” generated one of the largest responses of any of my articles. “Han” is something everyone knows somethi...
After eight months of the global pandemic, the pressure to keep economies open and let the chips (or rather, the elderly) fall where they ...
Donald Kirk
Relationships - diplomatic, economic or personal - evolve. The U.S.-Korea relationship is not cast in stone. U.S. diplomats can go on all ...
Next month's U.S. presidential election will not just be decisive in settling a slew of major domestic issues for the next four years; It ...
Cartoons
Pope's support of LGBTQ
New Cold War
Tribune Service
Angst over President Donald Trump should not cloud judgment of a new federal antitrust case against Google.
Throughout this most disastrous year in U.S. presidential history, President Donald Trump dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic perils by first...
Not long after federal authorities broke up an extremist plot to kidnap or kill Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, whom President Donald Trum...
Today in History

On this day...

1636-Harvard University (Boston) established

1790-New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000

1891-Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300

1918-Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up

1922-Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government

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