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Editorial
Cheong Wa Dae cannot deflect criticism for having used the national flag of Germany while uploading news on President Moon Jae-in's visit to Austria on social media. The presiden...
The ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) is struggling to shake off its “old image” of the political establishment bent on protecting its own vested interests and sticking to r...
Thoughts of the Times
I've been conducting a global project with one of the largest companies in Korea. After its rapid growth in many countries, its leadership...
As I was recovering from retinal detachment surgery, I learned three things. During those days, I got up earlier because I went to bed ear...
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
What does freedom mean to you? It's easy to ask that question, but extremely hard to answer if you think about it deeply.
Speaking of the French Revolution, the English poet William Wordsworth remarked, “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive. But to be young w...
I grew up in a North Korean coal mining village near Hoeryong, North Hamgyeong Province. I lived there for 21 years until I escaped in sea...
At night, in the 1880s, the streets of Seoul belonged to women. Men, with very few exceptions, were confined indoors by a curfew which all...
Columns
These days, when their daughters are getting married, fathers often say: “We are not losing a daughter, we are gaining a son-in-law.” When...
Japan is under a state of emergency extended through 20 June 2021. The number of COVID-19 infection cases is coming down, but variants are...
. Donald Kirk
The search for peace and reconciliation between North and South Korea burns bright in one province of South Korea that endured far more su...
. Robert Atkinson
South Korea has a productivity problem. Productivity growth is the single most important economic factor, for without it per-capita income...
I must warn you in advance that this is not satire. This news is real. Recently, the Republican governor of Texas signed a law creating “T...
COVID-19, a once-in-a-century kind of pandemic, seems to have dealt an unprecedented blow to the North Korean economy. Even before the pan...
In March 2020, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) turned fifty. The 10th Review Conference (RevCon), originally scheduled for April...
Texting is replacing talking as the preferred form of communication?
. Ahn Ho-young
President Moon Jae-in attended the Group of Seven (G7) Summit in Cornwall, United Kingdom from June 11 to 13, 2021. The event reminds me o...
. Bernard Rowan
Recently, I decided to celebrate the start of the last third of my life by returning to a “normal body weight.” I've lost 40 pounds thus f...
Cartoons
Climate summit
Netanyahu is out
Tribune Service
The sudden COVID-19-driven shutdown of workplaces early last year cost more than 33 million people their jobs over a seven-week span. Governments rushed to try to help,...
The internet has been a great unifier, enabling people to join others around the globe in pursuit of common interests. And now, the internet's largest platform operator...
Looking back, Vice President Kamala Harris's first major mission as the highest-ranking woman in the history of the United States - her tr...
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