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Wed, November 30, 2022 | 02:41

Korea Customs Service stands at forefront of war on drugs

Korea Customs Service stands at forefront of war on drugs

Currently, Korea is waging a war against drugs. The amount of smuggled drugs seized by the Korea Customs Service (KCS) last year was 1,272kg, exceeding 1 ton for the first time. The figure has increased by more than 37 times in just 10 years. Drug crimes have been rapidly spreading among the younger generation as 57 percent of drug offenders in Korea were in their 20s and 30s...

2022-11-09 13:33

Reasonable expectations in chaos

Reasonable expectations in chaos

The deadly crush of revelers in Itaewon for the Halloween weekend was a nightmarish accident. As the country starts dividing opinions on causes and culpability, it is worth noting the challenge of crowd control in such circumstances.

2022-11-08 17:17

Cho Hee-kyoung

Only the good die young

There are supposed to be five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. I can pinpoint to the exact moment when my disbelief and denial turned into anger over the Halloween disaster in Itaewon that has so far taken 156 lives.

2022-11-08 14:23

'Republic of Korea will take care of you from here'

'Republic of Korea will take care of you from here'

On Nov. 7, the ashes of deceased veterans of the Korean War arrived at Incheon International Airport with honor guards lining up. The deceased veterans - French veteran Robert Picquenard and Dutch veterans Mathias Hubertus Hoogenboom and Eduard Julius Engberink were very young when they joined the Korean War in defense of the Republic of Korea and all three of them wished to ...

Kang Seung-woo | 2022-11-08 14:21

. Kim Won-soo

Hegemonic competition beyond new Cold War

The relations among nation-states are in flux. Many pundits are raising the alarm about the return of the Cold War. But this time around, the main frontier lies not between the United States and the Soviet Union, but between the United States and China, a fast-rising challenger to the U.S.-led international order.

2022-11-07 15:43

Managing potential conflict on Korean Peninsula

Managing potential conflict on Korean Peninsula

Korea, once a united and culturally enriched country, was colonized by Japan in 1910. Even though WW II liberated Korea from 35 years of Japanese colonial oppression, the country was soon invaded by the U.S.S.R in the North. This led to American fears that the U.S.S.R would control the whole peninsula. They made an offer to the U.S.S.R to demarcate the country into two parts ...

2022-11-07 15:41

Giorgia Meloni's balancing act

Giorgia Meloni's balancing act

When Giorgia Meloni delivered her maiden speech in Italy's Chamber of Deputies on Oct. 25, you didn't know what to believe - the language or the body language, the message or the choice of words. Meloni, a former Benito Mussolini admirer and teenage neo-fascist activist, whose Brothers of Italy party leads the new government coalition, now reigns over the decaying political c...

2022-11-07 14:44

Peter S. Kim

China's new era under Xi

Last month, the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party put beyond doubt the fact that President Xi Jinping will rule the world's second-largest economy with an iron fist for years, if not decades. By extending the constitutionally mandated maximum term of 10 years, Xi is now the first leader since Mao Zedong to sit for an unlimited rule.

2022-11-06 17:00

. Mark Peterson

Sadness upon returning to Korea

After three years of carefully observing COVID-19 restrictions at home in America, I decided that, with five vaccination shots and a decline in the number of illnesses in both America and Korea, it was time for me to return to Korea. I have been struck with so many things about Korea after this long absence, but the most unfortunate, of course, is the tragedy in Itaewon.

2022-11-06 17:00

Who are real climate science deniers?

Who are real climate science deniers?

In May 2015 and July 2021, the British medical journal The Lancet published studies that analyzed millions of deaths in numerous countries over recent decades and found that cooler temperatures killed nine times (July 2021 study) to 17 times (May 2015 study) more people than warmer temperatures.

2022-11-06 14:56

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