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Wed, May 18, 2022 | 22:53

Annual lantern festival lights up downtown Seoul

The Seoul Lantern Festival kicked off on Nov. 26 to light up the city center with more than 80 paper lanterns over Cheonggye Stream, for a 10-day run through Dec. 5, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Tourism Organization (STO).

Bahk Eun-ji | 2021-11-30 08:56

Louis Vuitton star designer Virgil Abloh dies after private battle with cancer

Virgil Abloh, the American-born son of Ghanaian immigrants who became fashion's highest profile Black designer and the creative mind behind Louis Vuitton's menswear collections, died on Sunday at age 41, following a two-year battle with a rare form of cancer.

2021-11-29 10:02

The Korea Times-APLN Essay Contest awards 6 students

The Korea Times and the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) awarded the winners of their essay contest for young people on issues of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, Friday (KST). The contest was held for the second straight year after last year's inaugural one. Supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Korea ...

Jung Da-min | 2021-11-26 17:11

[Korea Times-APLN Essay Contest 2021] Arms race on Korean Peninsula is increasing risk of South Korean proliferation

North Korea recently proclaimed that Australia's new agreement with the United Kingdom and the United States to develop nuclear-powered submarines will lead to a nuclear arms race, but the true risk of that lies much closer to home. This emerging trend of intensification of the arms race on the Korean Peninsula is destabilizing in a way that puts South Korea on the path towar...

Kim Rahn | 2021-11-26 09:00

[Korea Times-APLN Essay Contest 2021] New framework for cooperative threat reduction with North Korea

Nuclear negotiations between the United States and North Korea are at a stalemate and despite numerous high-stakes summits and diplomatic engagement in recent years, there has been no substantive breakthrough. Earlier this month, North Korea fired another round of short-range missiles into the sea in a recent streak of weapons tests accusing the U.S. of maintaining a “hostile...

Kim Rahn | 2021-11-26 09:00

[Korea Times-APLN Essay Contest 2021] Communicating peace - how reengagement with Cold War's first confidence building measure can pave way for denuclearized Asia-Pacific

In June 1963 a teleprinter known as the red hotline was set up to enable direct communication between the leaders of the U.S. and USSR. After the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, during which official diplomatic messages took around six hours to be delivered, it was believed that having better means for direct communication was key to averting nuclear catastrophe. It was from this ...

Kim Rahn | 2021-11-26 09:00

[Korea Times-APLN Essay Contest 2021] Data-driven disarmament: Considering the relationship between emerging technology, the Korean Peninsula, and the next generation

Across the nuclear policy community, there has been a recent pivot to emerging technology. That is to say, the community has increasingly found itself concerned about the potential for emerging technology to drive competition between states, thereby exacerbating the potential risk for escalation and subsequent nuclear use. Many of these existing conversations have focused on ...

Kim Rahn | 2021-11-26 09:00

[Korea Times-APLN Essay Contest 2021] Ethical dilemma of nuclear weapons: hegemony, security dilemma and continued stalemate

On Sept. 28 North Korea fired a missile which landed in the sea on the Korean Peninsula's east coast. Following the launch, North Korea's neighboring countries Japan and South Korea and the United States condemned the missile launch. South Korea's President Moon Jae-in expressed the importance of stabilizing the peninsula and found the launch regretful. Hours before the launc...

Kim Rahn | 2021-11-26 09:00

[Korea Times-APLN Essay Contest 2021] AUKUS nuclear submarine deal: evident harms and future-proof solutions

On Sept. 15, Washington, London and Canberra announced a new strategic pact to strengthen their ties across various sectors including military, cyber and maritime domains. The pact is named after a clever abbreviation of the acronyms of the three countries, namely AUKUS. However, unlike the brevity of its name, AUKUS has already started to spark conflicts from day one.

Kim Rahn | 2021-11-26 09:00

'Korea_Grandma' YouTuber cooks food for Thanksgiving with US embassy

Elderly YouTuber Park Mak-rye, also known as “Korea_Grandma,” was invited by the U.S. Embassy, Tuesday, to cook food for Thanksgiving with U.S. Charge d'Affaires Chris Del Corso. Park and Del Corso cooked traditional Korean dishes “japchae” (stir-fried glass noodle) and “galbijjim” (braised beef short ribs) and shared traditional American dishes at Habib House, the residence ...

Lee Hae-rin | 2021-11-25 15:27

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