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Wed, October 20, 2021 | 06:30
Editorial
The National Assembly's audit of the Gyeonggi provincial government turned into a political battle over a land development scandal, Monday. Lawmakers of the ruling Democratic Par...
The Moon Jae-in administration has announced its position regarding the controversial U.S. demands for global semiconductor makers, including Samsung Electronics, to hand over se...
Thoughts of the Times
The sixties' adage, loneliness in a crowd, has reappeared during the COVID-19 pandemic and spread of the subsequent Delta Variant. People ...
A special interest in pansori, a distinctive Korean musical storytelling form, led me to travel recently to Namwon, North Jeolla Province,...
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
Palaces, gates, temples and old monuments are often the subject in old photographs of Korea. The value of these images is undisputed as th...
While there's been much discussion on the challenges of guaranteeing adopted people's “right to origins,” there's been little talk about t...
No one is really bored anymore. We always have a phone. We are connected at all times. A digital world of our choosing at our fingertips. ...
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a popular subject in letters home or to local newspapers was Western visitors' perceptions of c...
Columns
For many decades, Taiwan has been the most serious political-military flashpoint in U.S.-China relations, and in recent weeks and months t...
With less than five months remaining until next year's presidential election, the primary races for the major political parties are in ful...
After the unprecedented best picture Oscar won by “Parasite,” another South Korean cultural product, “Squid Game,” has achieved global pro...
Foreign ministries have geographic and regional divisions and within them individual country desks headed by a desk officer. The Japanese ...
. John J. Metzler
Beijing's communists are good at bullying. Look at the political crackdowns in prosperous Hong Kong, the suppression of ethnic minorities ...
The concept of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) reporting standards has gone mainstream. Major Wall Street firms have ...
. Jason Lim
All the controversy around the translation of “Squid Games” got me thinking, for the first time in a long time, about how things really do...
South Korea was recently appointed as the next chair of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Board of Governors. The term lasts...
In November 2017, President Moon Jae-in, during his state visit in Indonesia, announced a policy known as, the "New Southern Policy." The ...
. Yoon Byung-se
In diplomacy, semantics and symbolism are no less powerful than actual policy or strategy. The U.S. administration's use of the terms “lin...
Cartoons
Colin Powell RIP
Climate crisis
Tribune Service
Just over a year ago, a deal was signed on the White House lawn between Israel and two tiny Arab Gulf countries. It was billed as a game c...
It appears that President Joe Biden's administration is finally taking “no” for an answer from Iran. Since the summer, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has signaled th...
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