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Wed, December 11, 2019 | 12:36

Bernard Rowan

Divorce and in-laws

One cause for divorce in Korea today is pressure arising from in-laws. This ranges from in-law interference to financial conflicts. Money problems and in-laws have destroyed several friends' marriages. In other cases, emotional and power issues with in-laws create problems. Let's explore this cause of divorce and family stress a bit more.

2019-08-13 17:14

Tong Kim

Multiple challenges for South Korea

South Korea is facing unprecedented challenges for its security, sovereignty and wellbeing from multiple sources: North Korea, China, Russia, Japan and even from the United States ― Seoul's only treaty ally on which Seoul depends for a nuclear umbrella against the North.

Na Jeong-ju | 2019-08-12 17:28

Hyon O Brien

Doing the kind thing

On Aug. 2, my husband Tim and I celebrated our engagement ceremony that happened 50 years ago in 1969. Tim's parents flew 6,921 miles from New York to Seoul to meet me and my family for the first time.

2019-08-09 17:18

Donald Kirk

American silence on Jeju 4.3

JEJU - You have to wonder what a typical U.S. embassy does with a petition pleading a cause that some people don't want to know about. That's the question asked by activists crusading for the families of victims of “4.3,” the revolt that began on April 3, 1948, in which about 30,000 died in clashes with the Korean army and police. Two years ago, members of the 4.3 Victims' Fa...

2019-08-08 16:48

Park Moo-jong

Brazen-faced Juventus and Ronaldo

Two weeks have passed since Christiano Ronaldo of Juventus enraged Koreans by not taking to the pitch for the Italian football clubs' pre-season game against a K League All-Stars in Seoul in a breach of contract requiring the Portuguese “superstar” to play at least 45 minutes.

2019-08-08 16:35

Choi Sung-jin

Second - and real - independence

Last Friday, the Kakao Talk group chat of my elementary school friends got quite rowdy. It was right after Japan announced the removal of South Korea from the “whitelist” of countries that receive preferential treatment in trade.

2019-08-07 16:47

Lee Seong-hyon

US in Korea-Japan discord

Acrimonious emotions toward each other remain high in both South Korea and Japan, leaving much uncertainty for the future trajectory of the bilateral relationship. Pessimism, runs deep because the current deadlock is also part of deeply embedded issues of history and territory, to which there is no easy solution.

2019-08-06 17:34

Troy Stangarone

Japan escalating conflict with Korea

When the Japanese Cabinet met on Aug. 2, it had the option to de-escalate the current conflict with South Korea. Its frustrations over the South Korean Supreme Court decision on compensation for forced labor victims had already been expressed with the restrictions imposed in early July.

2019-08-06 17:27

John Burton

What type of policy on North Korea will the Democrats pursue if they defeat U.S. President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election? It is a hard question to answer. For one thing, foreign policy has been scarcely discussed during the current Democrat presidential primary campaign and North Korea even less so. Instead, the more than 20 primary candidates have focused th...

2019-08-05 17:53

Deauwand Myers

One of the most recent and contentious examples of historical misdeeds and calls for reparations is between Korea and Japan. Imperial Japan colonized Korea from 1910 to 1945. During World War II, Japan forced many Koreans in Korea and Japan to work in squalid, dangerous conditions to support the war effort.

2019-08-05 17:49

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