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Sat, July 24, 2021 | 12:38

'Proxy adoption,' the IR-4 visa and US citizenship for adoptees from Korea

The scale and persistence with which Korea has historically exported its children remain unmatched by any other country in the world to this day. Over nearly seven decades, this country has sent away over 200,000 children. One major means that enabled such a large-scale phenomenon was the use of “proxy adoption.”

2021-07-24 09:47

Korea's tasks to reduce global emissions

When governments meet at the U.N. Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in November they will face an increasingly difficult task in limiting global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. Global temperatures have already increased by more than 1.0 degree Celsius and countries were not on track to meet their pledges from the Paris Ac...

2021-07-22 17:05

Tokyo Olympics kick off amid cancellation confusion

The confusion surrounding the potentially late cancellation of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the official start date of which is Friday, has added to the challenges facing the troubled games.

2021-07-22 17:00

Variant threat is real

STOCKHOLM - It has now been 18 months since the SARS-CoV-2 virus was first sequenced in China. Within a month, the World Health Organization (WHO) had issued its highest possible global alert, declaring the COVID-19 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Weeks later, the WHO declared a pandemic. Yet we are nowhere near the end of the crisis. On the contr...

2021-07-22 17:00

What did Biden achieve in Geneva?

CAMBRIDGE - When U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin held their first summit in Geneva last month, cyber weapons played a larger role on the agenda than the nuclear kind. Clearly the world has changed since the Cold War, but what, if anything, did Biden accomplish?

2021-07-22 16:33

Shane died

After watching “Shane” so many times over the years, beginning with the first time I saw the classic film in 1962, I have to consider seriously that Shane, a cowboy knight-errant, died at the end of the film.

2021-07-22 16:15

Fauci can defeat virus, but not conspiracy theories

About 34 million people have fallen ill with COVID-19 in the U.S. and nearly 610,000 have died. Protection is readily at hand, but is going to waste in storage and in some cases while millions refuse to avail themselves of it.

2021-07-22 16:04

Stars, politicians and power shift

Singer Na Hoon-a mocked Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myung during his concert named, “Again Brother Tes,” held in the southeastern city of Daegu last Friday.

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2021-07-21 16:51

Where is China headed?

During a speech at an event celebrating the Chinese Communist Party's 100th anniversary on July 1, Xi Jinping warned that those who try to “bully, coerce and enslave” China will “break their heads on the steel Great Wall built with the blood and flesh of 1.4 billion Chinese people.”

2021-07-21 16:51

Why South Korea cannot achieve denuclearization of Korean Peninsula

The Moon Jae-in administration's “peace process” for leading the North to give up its nuclear weapons proved the limits of negotiations without the United States. Since President Moon took office in May 2017, Seoul has reversed its hostile policies against Pyongyang, set by the previous conservative administrations, to restart dialogue. The PyeongChang Olympics in 2018 create...

2021-07-21 16:50

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