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Sat, August 24, 2019 | 01:31

Bieber's visit to Japan war shrine

Not that I particularly care for his infamous manner of speech and eccentric behavior, which have troubled many across the globe, but Justin Bieber touched on a very sensitive line of emotion when he visited a Japanese war shrine. Whether the Canadian singer described the shrine as"beautiful" may fall under the freedom of speech category, but photos showing him praying in the...

2014-05-02 16:16

Tokyo's sushi diplomacy

President Obama and Prime Minister Abe met at the Sukiyabashi Jiro sushi house in Ginza. The rather small pure sushi restaurant, with some 10 stools surrounding the kitchen on the basement floor of a Tokyo building, is so famous among Japanese and foreigners that you must wait a month to get a stool. The menu includes several kinds of fresh raw fish and laver sushi, and costs...

2014-04-25 16:50

Side thruster and equilibrium

The large hole, about 2 meters in diameter, in the bow hull of the sunken ferry Sewol, shown in the photo (page 4, Apr. 18, The Korea Times) is called a bow thruster. It’s not a rescue hole, and it does not provide access to inside the bulkhead. The Sewol had to be equipped with a stern (rear) thruster too. A bow thruster or stern thruster is a transversal propulsion device b...

2014-04-21 17:03

Virginia governor deserves recognition

After much fuss about whether it is appropriate for a state legislature to intervene in what is a dispute between two countries, Korea and Japan, over the name of a body of water, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has finally signed into law the East Sea bill. Now the Sea of Japan will also be known as the East Sea, at least in Virginia.

2014-04-17 16:51

Suppression of acts of nuclear terrorism

I refer to the topical article "Summit aims to counter nuclear terrorism threat" by Andrew Hammond, published by The Korea Times, in the opinion page on March 21 which is focused on the third Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in The Hague, Netherlands.

2014-03-25 16:58

Positive responses to KOTRA ad

I am writing in response to the Feb.19 story, “Chopsticks ad puzzles some foreigners.”

2014-03-12 16:45

Japan's Re-examination of apology

The decision by Japan to re-examine the apology it made to women who were forced to work in the Japanese military comfort zones in World War II could further upset South Korea and the former "comfort women" across Korea, on the Chinese Mainland, in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Philippines.

2014-03-11 16:48

Reunification - jackpot or bonanza?

It is impossible to achieve reunification unless the two Koreas can first end the Korean War which remains at a ceasefire and has done so since 1953. That is the prerequisite to make any improvement between the two Koreas. Can Ban Ki-moon help end the Korean War, which has continued for 64 years?

2014-03-06 16:53

Challenging but unavoidable reform

I am afraid that your interview article with me on Korea's electricity pricing ("Higher electricity rate needed for reduction of carbon dioxide," Feb. 27) fails to convey my position on the issue more fully. Korea's electricity prices, set by the government, have been kept below the cost of electricity generation since the oil price hike of 2008 during the onset of the global...

2014-03-05 16:53

Need for native English editors

I'd like to comment on an article entitled "What's in a ministry name?" written by Lee Chang-sup.

2014-02-26 16:50

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