Opinion
Tue, November 29, 2022 | 01:15
Editorial
U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) will incorporate a component command of the U.S. Space Force (USSF) by year's-end to tackle potential military provocations from North Korea. It will be ...
China has resumed the online streaming of a South Korean movie for the first time in six years. Tencent Video, one of China's top three over-the-top (OTT) platforms, is now offer...
Thoughts of the Times
How does South Korea navigate the challenge of a diminishing population, yet the need for more citizens to improve its economic growth, e....
Sometimes it is easy to see other people's faults but difficult to find their merits. No one is perfect. Nonetheless, something is shining...
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 late 19th century, it wasn't uncommon for Seoul to be shrouded in smoke from the thousands and thousands of short chimneys that lin...
We live in a society where all acts of kindness are treated with suspicion. Seen as a shallow marketing ploy for the person's own benefit ...
The young woman raised her head. She looked at me through her glasses, taking a pause before speaking clearly and in a deeper tone than us...
The Korean Consolidated Mining Company (KCMC) operated mines throughout the peninsula - most of them were at very isolated and inaccessibl...
Columns
I couldn't help but be devastated at the sight of the student who was in front of me, crying and saying, “Professor, my family member was ...
. Andrew Hammond
New U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak celebrated the end of his first month in office this week, yet many of his fellow Conservative MPs are...
A recent report by the NGO Safeguard Defenders about the existence of “secret Chinese police stations” in cities around the world, includi...
. Jason Lim
Being a Tottenham and Son Heung-min fan (who isn't), I found the scene of Son embracing his English Premier League teammate from Uruguay, ...
Since South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol took office in May, North Korea has continuously tested its missiles, including the Hwasong-17 ...
Ethical progress produces a beneficial form of dogmatism. A normal, healthy society does not debate whether rape and torture are acceptabl...
. Casey Latigue
Some moderators and organization leaders are apologetic when they introduce me at their events. One organization president introducing me ...
Sandip Kumar Mishra
Japan appears to be more explicit in its contests with China in recent years. At the East Asian Summit in Cambodia, Japanese Prime Ministe...
. John J. Metzler
The women-led uprising against Iran's Islamic Republic continues. Under the inspiring slogan, Woman, Life, Freedom, the movement confronti...
Nine months after Russia invaded their country, Ukrainians are seizing back their territory and giving their people hope of a military vic...
Cartoons
World Cup 2022
Zero Covid
Tribune Service
Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and the holiday shopping season in general are always a critical time for retailers, including local merchants. That remains true ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe moved to Maine in 1850 with her husband, Calvin Ellis Stowe, a professor at Bowdoin College. In Brunswick, she wrote her famous “Uncle Tom's Cabin...
Though foreign policy played no real role in the outcome of the midterm elections, that outcome matters for foreign policy .Friends and allies around the world are like...
Today in History
On this day...

1825-First Italian opera, Barber of Seville, produced in US (NYC)
1877-Thomas Edison demonstrates the hand-cranked phonograph
1887-U.S. receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
1916-U.S. declares martial law in Dominican Republic
1934-Chicago Bears beat Detroit in 1st NFL game broadcast natio...
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