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Fri, January 29, 2021 | 01:12
Editorial
President Moon Jae-in's phone conversation with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, Tuesday, has raised more worries than hopes. It came at a delicate time when new U.S. Presiden...
The trilateral agreement on preventing delivery workers' deaths from overwork is facing a crisis after just six days. The Parcel Delivery Workers' Solidarity Union said Wednesday...
Thoughts of the Times
“Ancora imparo” is an Italian phrase meaning “Yet, I am learning.” It is often said to have been uttered by the great Renaissance genius, ...
A few days ago, in my apartment complex, there was an announcement regarding the preliminary measures for enrolling school-aged children i...
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
In the 1880s, Lillias Underwood, an early American missionary in Korea, wrote: “No matter how old one is, without a top-knot [a Korean] is...
On January 22, 1904, a palanquin stopped in front of the gates of Deoksu Palace and a young woman got out and approached the guards. She d...
K-culture is differentiated from Korean culture in a variety of ways. The former is primarily constructed for export, and its success or f...
As someone who was born in North Korea, it is so unexpected for me to be speaking about the Giving Tuesday movement that started in the Un...
Columns
Donald Kirk
An important anniversary has slipped by. It was in January 2020, while visiting Hong Kong for a few days, that I started seeing stories ab...
Park Moo-jong
Fifteen years ago in 2006, David Coleman, a population expert and demographer at the Oxford Centre for Population Research, warned that So...
For the past 13 years, Park Dal-bong has owned an unpretentious buffet restaurant known as the Bierhof near Gangnam Station. But it, like ...
China's conflict management diplomacy may not go down well with the Gulf Arabs, notably Saudi Arabia, judging by what for Saudi media was ...
If there's one thing that President Joe Biden has made abundantly clear, it's that he will grant an amnesty to an unknown number of illega...
You will be acutely aware that, after the ravages of the Trump years, you have a big healing job ahead of you not only at home but abroad....
Kim Rahn
Huh Kyung-young, head of the National Revolutionary Party / Korea Times fileKim RahnA familiar face has returned to the local political sc...
Bernard Rowan
I'm happy Joseph Biden has begun as the new President of the United States. I think Koreans are too, at least those South of the Demilitar...
He's the most dangerous president in modern memory and he wielded his Twitter account like a weapon of mass destruction. Thank God they fi...
Allow me to express my heartfelt congratulations on your election and inauguration as the 46th president of the United States of America t...
Cartoons
How vaccine distribution works
Getting used to Biden presidency
Tribune Service
Amid his first wave of actions after his inauguration Wednesday, President Joe Biden took direct aim at the nation's dysfunctional immigration system by rescinding some...
President Joe Biden issued a flurry of executive orders last week, and some represent positive steps toward history education, anti-discrimination and racial reconcilia...
In the wake of the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, Twitter has permanently banned the former commander in chief.Facebook blocke...
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