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Tue, October 4, 2022 | 15:16
Editorial
The nation's trade shortfall reached $3.77 billion in September, logging a deficit for the sixth consecutive month. This is the first time since 1997, just before the Asian finan...
Japan is pushing ahead again with a plan to obtain UNESCO World Heritage recognition for a complex of former mines linked to wartime forced labor. On Thursday, the Japanese gover...
Thoughts of the Times
On Sept. 23, I went to Yongsan Station Square to attend the Global Climate Strike. Youth 4 Climate Action organized the demonstration ther...
Chuseok, in a nutshell, is a festivity of the full moon, a gathering of family members, a homage to parents with gifts, the preparation of...
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
In the late fall of 1897, the general Korean population was worried about the ever-increasing prices in local markets. Housewives were qui...
“It might be a stereotype but I've always had the impression that Korean students are quite robotic. That they just study. Lack creativity...
Farmers have always played a vital role in society, but in the late 19th century, they were often overlooked by the pens of visiting Weste...
They say everyone loves a parade - especially a military parade. In late 1888, Frank G. Carpenter, an American travel writer, had the oppo...
Columns
. John Burton
North Korea's recent declaration that it would remain a nuclear state and that its decision was “irreversible” underscores the complete fa...
Chyung Eun-ju, Joel Cho
Imagine a first date with someone who lives thousands of miles away that starts with a few drinks in a club set in a past decade, and ends...
In his prophetic 1838 Lyceum Address, a generation before the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln predicted that the fall of the United States, if ...
. Jason Lim
It seems as if everything is going to hell all at once. You have the Russia-Ukraine war, with the always constant threat of a catastrophic...
A nuclear specter is haunting Europe once again. On Sept. 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a mobilization of some 300,000 rese...
Vladimir Putin's desperation was plain to see in the emergency measures he declared last week: immediate mobilization of at least 300,000 ...
It has been more than seven months since the war in Ukraine broke out. Europe is suffering from the most tragic conflict since World War I...
Africa is on the cusp of an economic transformation. 2050, consumer and business spending on the continent is expected to reach roughly $1...
Several recent public opinion surveys send a mixed message to autocratic reformers in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, w...
Lee Jong-eun
This month, while the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit was being held, the Global Times, an English-language Chinese newspap...
Cartoons
Russian Referendum Sham
Peeing in our own pool
Tribune Service
After weeks of reverses, Russia's army is still losing ground in the battlefields of Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin's response, characteristically, has been to escal...
The threat of climate change conjures certain scenes: Smoke billowing from a forest aflame. Smothering heat clinging to the distorted asphalt of a densely packed street...
From the moment Russian forces began their widespread missile barrage against Ukrainian targets in February, the United States and Europe have sought to rally the world...
Today in History

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1864-Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing the South

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1910-Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic

1931-First nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wash (Herndon &...

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