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Tue, August 4, 2020 | 18:15
Editorial
The Moon Jae-in administration has come up with a new anti-speculative housing package aimed at building 132,000 homes in Seoul and its surrounding areas. One of the key measures...
The government has taken an inevitable step of ordering home a diplomat alleged to have indecently assaulted a local embassy worker in 2017 in New Zealand. The action follows New...
Thoughts of the Times
One column in this paper read, "I'm still surprised people are surprised how bad it can be to be black and in America." I retorted: I'm st...
It is fair to say there are people who want to change the world for the better when they enter politics. They are idealists who want to po...
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
From his ideal location in Japan (Yokohama - the primary port), Wirgman seems to have found it amusing to watch the various Western powers...
This piece could be about the ongoing “comfort women” dispute between South Korea and Japan which, despite international agreements in 196...
Charles Wirgman (1832-1891) is an unlikely witness of Korean history - especially considering, as far as I know, he never visited the coun...
In a democratic society, one normally assumes that an individual is given certain freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedo...
Columns
Lee Seong-hyon
Under the Chinese political landscape, the limits of Chinese think tanks derive from their mandate to provide logic to the government poli...
Seventy-five years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki put beyond argument that nuclear weapons are the most indiscriminately inhu...
Deauwand Myers
Along history, forever / some woman dancing, / making shapes on the air; / forever a man / riding a good horse, /sitting the dark horse we...
John Burton
Could the Korean Peninsula see a renewed nuclear crisis in 2021? The probable election of Joe Biden as the next U.S. president in November...
Its very name, Hagia Sophia, evokes the ancient mysteries of Byzantium. Its setting along the Golden Horn on the majestic Bosphorus joinin...
GENEVA - As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa surpasses 500,000, the new coronavirus is at the forefront of the public cons...
Mark Peterson
I usually object to the saying that certain words or phrases are untranslatable. I like to think that if one is clever enough, every word ...
Chang Se-moon
Two weeks ago in this column, I introduced Zoom for those who had barely heard of it or just started using it. I will continue the discuss...
Earlier last month, Iran announced that it is negotiating a 25-year agreement with China encompassing trade, energy, infrastructure, telec...
Donald Kirk
WASHINGTON - The mayhem on the streets of some American cities may be more shocking to foreign TV watchers than to Americans. No other nat...
Cartoons
Pandemics compared
Hiroshima-Nagasaki 75th
Tribune Service
From writer H.G. Wells to filmmaker Ridley Scott, the possibility of life on Mars has long sparked the public's imagination for generations. And if there ever was a tim...
The announcement Friday that Hong Kong's legislative elections, originally scheduled for September, would be delayed a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic is the late...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to the Nixon Presidential Library last week to proclaim the American opening to China a grand failure. "What do the American peo...
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