Opinion
Sun, January 29, 2023 | 17:41
Editorial
It was unusually cold and snowy this winter in Korea. Cold waves and heavy snow warnings were issued frequently, with temperatures in some cities falling to record lows.
Long-time watchers of Korean-Japanese relations are feeling deja vu over two things - some that repeat every year and some that come back every five years.
Thoughts of the Times
As the sun rose on a Monday morning over Myeong-dong, downtown Seoul, the eye was struck with horror. A whole alley in the popular shoppin...
The Vietnam War ended officially on Jan. 27, 1973, with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords. The governments of North Vietnam, South Vi...
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Korea, in the early months of 1885, was in turmoil. A failed coup attempt in December 1884 resulted in large numbers of Japanese and Chine...
Read something in the mainstream press and Confucianism will likely be linked to any or all of the following situations: the crash of Asia...
If you want to write a book and it is the two of you writing it, you have to work together a lot, share a lot. It is challenging, especial...
Long ago, when tigers smoked pipes, there was a huge tiger known as White Whiskers who dwelt in the wild and sparsely populated region tha...
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. Jason Lim
Gwen Stefani caused a minor ruckus recently when she proclaimed in an interview that she identifies as Japanese. She was referring to the ...
. Jang Da-wool
“With great power comes great responsibility.” Whether you attribute this quote to the Spider-Man movies, Voltaire, or Winston Churchill, ...
I love my gas stove - almost as much as I love my Weber gas grill. So I became curious this past week when I heard that a commissioner in ...
. Andrew Hammond
Conservative thinker Milton Friedman famously declared in the 1970s, in the period leading up to the political era defined by Ronald Reaga...
. Steven L. Shields
Not long ago, an ultra-right-wing, so-called “Christian” broadcaster in Korea won the right in the courts to continue to preach hatred and...
A week after Joe Biden became president, he signed Executive Order 14008, which announced his commitment to protect 30 percent of U.S. lan...
A constant in the political universe is the quest to occupy the moral high ground, that space that sets apart those with noble intentions ...
Kim Rahn
Every class had one Kang Baek-ho, one Seo Tae-woong, one Jeong Dae-man, and so on. When playing basketball, boys used to say lines like “C...
The year 2022 was not what can be called a stable and peaceful year for the Korean Peninsula. The well-speculated nuclear test by North Ko...
Next month, Russia's violent assault on neighboring Ukraine will have been going on for one year. Russian President Vladimir Putin's plan ...
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Recently, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy contended that atrocities committed by Russian troops against unarmed Ukrainian citizens constituted war crimes. “This...
Western allies are finally realizing the Ukraine war won't end until Vladimir Putin's dreams of conquest are decisively defeated on the battlefield.
Our institutions of higher education are not exactly stepping up during this moment of generational change. At a minimum these institutions are not keeping up and, at w...
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