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Mon, April 19, 2021 | 15:53
Editorial
President Moon Jae-in conducted a Cabinet reshuffle Friday in a desperate bid to regain public support following his party's crushing defeat in the April 7 mayoral by-elections. ...
SsangYong Motor has been placed under court receivership once again. Last Thursday, the Seoul Bankruptcy Court approved corporate rehabilitation procedures for the automaker, ord...
Thoughts of the Times
I often hear from people about their anxiety over meeting new people, starting the day, taking an examination, or any number of things. Of...
Finally, I received the New York manufactured Pfizer-BioNTech virus vaccine. Upon arriving early A.M. at our university Multi-Purpose Cent...
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
Housing is something that we all need, like food or water or clothing; society has a fundamental problem if the price of a home is high. T...
North Korea is a poor country, but people who live in the capital live pretty well - residents there are said to live in “Pyonghattan,” a combination of Pyongyang and M...
Even the most cursory glance around South Korea today will show you a great chasm appearing, one exacerbated by the continuing effects of ...
In 1877, a Japanese merchant in Fusan (now part of Busan) reported Koreans greatly valued oranges and used them in their medicine as well ...
Columns
Jason Lim
My social media page was covered with remembrances and self-condolences about the Sewol tragedy that happened seven years ago this week. I...
There is no magic bullet in curbing carbon emissions from fossil fuels to tackle the global climate emergency. We need to put our priority...
CAIRO - The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which came into effect in January, could be a game changer in helping to lift th...
The buzzwords of today's international politics, “the U.S.-China hegemonic competition,” refer to two superpowers that want to either defe...
Casey Lartigue, Jr.
If your mother says she loves you, check it out. That's an old adage in journalism advising reporters to be skeptical. But should you “che...
Sports governance worldwide has had the legs knocked out from under it. Yet, national and international sports administrators are slow in ...
The first person I thought when I heard that Prince Philip had died was Elizabeth, a queen in the greater world but only and always a wife...
President Vladimir Putin signed a new law last week that could keep him in power till 2036, potentially alongside China's Xi Jinping. In o...
Since the beginning of the “freefall” of U.S.-China relations during the global COVID-19 pandemic last year, tension over the Taiwan Strai...
An online seminar between Korea and Indonesia was held on Feb. 5 and March 25 at the Ministry of Government Legislation of the Republic of...
Cartoons
Japan radioactive water
20 years in Afghanistan
Tribune Service
President Joe Biden's expected announcement Wednesday that he will begin removing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of the month and complete the withdrawal b...
A few weeks ago I wrote a column in which I briefly referred to the concept of “cave syndrome.” The term was coined by a psychiatrist in F...
Europe faces a predicament. Even as it struggles to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, it's setting itself up for another crisis - this one financial. To ensure the viabili...
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