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Editorial
South Korea will hold trilateral anti-submarine drills with the United States and Japan in international waters off the East Sea on Friday to cope with growing military threats f...
The presidential National Education Commission (NEC) responsible for establishing the nation's medium- to long-term education policy was launched on Tuesday. The NEC is a consent...
Thoughts of the Times
I arrived in South Korea for the first time on July 23, 2004, at the tender age of 31. I had no idea of the adventures that awaited me for...
In philosopher, psychoanalyst and feminist Julia Kristeva's work, when the infant becomes a subject, it desires its former comfortable pla...
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
They say everyone loves a parade - especially a military parade. In late 1888, Frank G. Carpenter, an American travel writer, had the oppo...
To define whether or not a country is modern is a rather difficult thing. Some of us instinctually reach for economic factors as a mark of...
The past month has seen a controversy erupt surrounding the newly debuted K-pop group NewJeans, most members of which are under age 19, as...
In the past, tigers reigned in Korea - perhaps the only exception being Jeju Island (legends claim Jeju was spared from tiger infestation ...
Columns
Vladimir Putin's desperation was plain to see in the emergency measures he declared last week: immediate mobilization of at least 300,000 ...
It has been more than seven months since the war in Ukraine broke out. Europe is suffering from the most tragic conflict since World War I...
Africa is on the cusp of an economic transformation. 2050, consumer and business spending on the continent is expected to reach roughly $1...
Several recent public opinion surveys send a mixed message to autocratic reformers in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, w...
Lee Jong-eun
This month, while the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit was being held, the Global Times, an English-language Chinese newspap...
. John J. Metzler
Amid a swirl of ongoing and upcoming international crises, the Ukraine war overwhelmingly dominated debate at the United Nations General A...
. John Burton
Busan Mayor Park Heong-joon's ambition to turn his city into a center of English-speaking Koreans is a laudable one, but it will also be d...
Eugene Lee
Today, the world is a huge hodgepodge of people of different sorts, constantly moving from one corner to another. Among these nomads are g...
The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs announced recently that the government will designate May 29 as the “Day of Soldiers Dispatc...
. Bernard Rowan
My retired colleague, Dr. Hannah Jones, one of the first United Nations representatives from Liberia, taught me the phrase, “standing on t...
Cartoons
Putin nuclear threat
Kick your asteroid
Tribune Service
President Joe Biden's foreign policy deserves higher marks than most have given it. Biden boldly pulled the plug on the Afghanistan quagmire, so that Americans could st...
Deadly wildfires. Unprecedented flooding. Major hurricanes. With exponential growth in devastating weather events predicted for the upcoming decades, the changing clima...
Get outside. Eat healthy food. Keep moving. That all sounds easy enough, right? Such pithy directives for a healthy lifestyle are now so common that they've become a ki...
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1452 ― First book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible

1659 ― Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)

1791 ― Mozart's opera “The Magic Flute” premiers in Vienna

1846 ― Anesthetic ether used for the first time (Dr. Wm Morton extracts a tooth)
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