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Tue, July 14, 2020 | 22:27

Choi Sung-jin

Hero or traitor?

When I was in fifth grade, one of my classmates was poor but seemed to have some pride at heart. Some friends said his grandfather had fought against Japanese imperialism. When I told my father, he replied by quoting a famous saying, “Independence fighters are poor for three generations while pro-Japanese collaborators are rich for three generations.”

2020-07-14 16:55

Tong Kim

It's up to North Korea

Recently, we have heard a flurry of discussions about the possibility of resuming negotiations or holding another summit between the U.S. and North Korea. It would be safe to conclude at this point that despite positive statements from Washington seeking dialogue with Pyongyang, a fourth summit between Trump and Kim Jong-un is unlikely to take place before the U.S. elections.

2020-07-13 16:58

Mark Peterson

Charm of K-drama

Okay, call me slow. Yes, I know everyone else has been talking about K-drama forever. But I've finally gotten on board. The key to my conversion has been “Crash Landing on You.”

2020-07-12 18:17

Hyon O Brien

Every Thursday, I try to get up around 5 a.m. I participate by Zoom in the morning worship of Miami Joonim Church at 6 o'clock. Then I freshen up the agenda I wrote up the previous night for the Rotary Club of Bal Harbour's weekly meeting, also via Zoom. At 8 a.m. I open the meeting as the current president with the Pledge of Allegiance. In the pledge, we remind ourselves tha...

2020-07-10 17:22

Donald Kirk

News for North Koreans

The insistence of a pair of brothers on scattering hundreds of thousands of leaflets from balloons fired over North Korea confronts the South with tough questions. Is it worth upsetting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his sister, Kim Yo-jong, knowing the negative effects the leaflets are having on North-South rapprochement? For sure, Kim is not going to agree on denuclear...

2020-07-09 17:09

Park Moo-jong

Beating 'corona blues'

The term “blues” can be understand basically as a music genre that originated in the United States around the 1870s among African-Americans, mostly slaves and their descendants, who sang as they toiled in the cotton and vegetable fields.

2020-07-09 17:07

Deauwand Myers

I lived through the national travesty of the impeachment and imprisonment of ex-President Park Geun-hye. Massive marches throughout the capital, Seoul, and the nation's protests blotted out all other news.

2020-07-08 17:11

John Burton

Rise of the rest

Korea and several other nations in the Asia-Pacific region - Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam and Thailand - have successfully contained the COVID-19 outbreak. The leadership of these middle-sized powers in responding to the pandemic has provoked talk of the “rise of the rest,” meaning countries that can play a more influential and independent global role between the s...

2020-07-06 17:28

Mark Peterson

Improving Korean education

I'm really hesitant to give my opinion on the Korean education system, but on the heels of my article last week about the Harvard admission policy, perhaps I can venture to offer my humble opinions in hopes of improving an already excellent educational system.

2020-07-05 17:20

Chang Se-moon

Thoughts on North Korean issue

On June 19, Mrs. Cindy Warmbier and the Human Rights in North Korea organization hosted a zoom presentation of how her family had been handling the death of their son, Otto. Readers may recall that Otto Warmbier, a bright, handsome, and talented 22-year-old University of Virginia student, died on June 19, 2017, from injuries suffered while detained in North Korea.

2020-07-05 15:37

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