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Sun, November 27, 2022 | 20:43

Reflections on deaths of the queen and my old buddy

Reflections on deaths of the queen and my old buddy

I'm sitting down in front of my study room PC pondering what to write of the recent passing at age 96 of England's Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in U.K. history with over 70 years on the throne, and of my old buddy John Sheridan (at 74), long-time Korea Times columnist, who I originally met in 1982 when both of us worked in Seoul.

2022-10-20 13:48

Lee Hyo-sik

Should government keep buying surplus rice?

Rice means something special to Koreans as the crop been an essential part of the nation's culinary culture for as long as people on the Korean Peninsula have engaged in agriculture. For many years, rice farming used to be the most popular occupation, before the industrialization of modern Korea, as most people lived in rural areas.

2022-10-19 15:02

Troy Stangarone

Potential for US-Korea-EU trilateral cooperation

Earlier this month, the Korea Economic Institute, along with partners in South Korea and the European Union held a conference at George Washing University to discuss the potential for trilateral trade cooperation between the United States, South Korea and the European Union. While there are obstacles to deeper U.S.-Korea-EU cooperation, the general consensus was that there ar...

2022-10-19 14:02

. Ahn Ho-young

2 'dos' and 1 'don't' for Korea and Japan

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a speech at the Japanese Diet on Oct. 3. In the speech, Kishida described Korea as “an important neighbor with which Japan has to cooperate in order to deal with many issues in the international community.” He also said, “Japan will closely consult with Korea, because we have to return our bilateral relations to a solid one and furth...

2022-10-18 18:12

. Mark Peterson

A solution to a Confucianism problem

In recent months I have seen numerous “complaints” or “criticisms” of Confucianism on my YouTube channel. I've seen criticisms of genealogy, of ancestor ceremonies and of the seonbi (the well-educated man who takes and passes exams in traditional times). People are calling for an end to Confucianism as they know it.

2022-10-18 15:19

Three reasons for hope

Three reasons for hope

Yes, I know, American democracy is under assault. Russian President Vladimir Putin is muttering dark warnings about nuclear weapons in the face of heroic and historic resistance by Ukraine. Dozens of people are dead and large swaths of Florida have been devastated by Hurricane Ian. And Kanye West did something so uniformly awful in Paris that I was forced to Google the tone-d...

2022-10-18 15:07

Sandip Kumar Mishra

North Korea needs urgent attention

North Korean nuclear and missile capabilities have grown alarmingly. In 2022, North Korea conducted several missile tests and according to South Korean Unification Minister Kwon Young-se, these tests seek to “tame South Korea.” The unification minister feels that there are two other reasons for North Korea's incessant missile tests. One, North Korea wants to upgrade its weapo...

2022-10-17 17:45

. John Burton

A slap in the face

Cars have been at the center of trade disputes between Korea and the U.S. for more than 30 years. When Korean cars began making inroads into the U.S. in the late 1980s and early 1990s, U.S. auto manufacturers complained that both tariff and non-tariff barriers were keeping their products out of Korea. Although Seoul would make some concessions, the number of U.S. cars sold in...

2022-10-17 14:32

The Ukraine safari

The Ukraine safari

I don't usually write about cultural products from my own country, but I must make an exception for Slovenian filmmaker Miran Zupanic's new documentary Sarajevo Safari, which details one of the most bizarre and pathological episodes of the 1992-96 siege of the Bosnian capital.

2022-10-17 13:36

. Jason Lim

Korea and Kakao: '503 service temporarily unavailable'

My elderly parents moved into an apartment condo in New Jersey a few years ago when they found that they couldn't upkeep a single-family house any longer due to increasing frailty. Before they moved in, they had some renovations done to their kitchen and bathrooms to make them modern, clean and stylish. Recently, however, they started smelling a foul odor coming from their ba...

2022-10-16 14:41

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