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Sun, May 16, 2021 | 17:22
Editorial
President Moon Jae-in appointed a new prime minister and four Cabinet ministers Friday, in a major reshuffle designed to regain public trust following the ruling party's crushing...
A woman suspected of abusing her adopted daughter to death has been sentenced to life in prison. The Seoul Southern District Court found the suspect surnamed Jang guilty of murde...
Thoughts of the Times
Being the third son of a poor farming family, my father knew that he must find a job to get out of working in the rice paddies. So he went...
My family lived with a little poodle when I was working in Bangkok, Thailand, mainly because my young daughter longed for a pet dog. We ca...
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
After Horace and Lillias Underwood left Pyongyang, they spent several weeks exploring the lesser-traveled places. Tigers were a constant t...
For many people, one of the most important days of their life is their wedding. The romantic idea of a luxurious wedding ceremony, witness...
Women in North Korea are routinely deprived of the basic freedom of expression, which is what ultimately persuaded North Korean refugee Pa...
Once, after I had waited for a while at the bar of a London pub, two staff members came over at the same time and served both me and the p...
Columns
. Jason Lim
In northern Virginia, where I live, everything was normal on Tuesday. Coming back from a quick errand on Tuesday afternoon, my wife stoppe...
. Park Chong-hoon
Over the past week, Korea reported 577 daily confirmed COVID-19 cases on average. The number of cases has not been declining, contrary to ...
. Casey Latigue
My friends often marvel at my ability to not only think outside of the box, but to flip the box upside down, look at things from both insi...
. Steven L. Shields
A time-honored hymn sung around campfires at church retreats and in prayer meetings is a favorite of mine, as it reminds me of what it mea...
The threat that emerging infectious diseases pose to global health and the economy, trade and tourism never ceases. Pandemics can spread r...
As the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic outstrips the severity of the first, a clear global bifurcation is emerging. The pandemic is a...
In three decades in the news business, most of them spent covering government and politics, I've been to more than my share of press confe...
“Migration benefiting all” is a mantra echoed throughout the halls of my agency, the International ...
Kang Hyun-kyung
“I wish I had one more eye on my back.”Japanese-born TV personality Fujita Sayuri, better known to the Korean public by only her first nam...
. Andrew Hammond
Results released during the weekend from the U.K.'s “Super Thursday” elections show that the country is more divided, politically, than an...
Cartoons
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NRA skeet shoot
Tribune Service
To hear some people tell it, vaccine passports are just another effort by Democrats, progressives and Satan to take away your freedom, jus...
From the moment the National Rifle Association filed for bankruptcy in January, it looked like a dodge. Financially solvent despite internal disputes and dwindling dona...
The Indian government is primarily responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic currently ravaging the nation.
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