Opinion
Tue, January 31, 2023 | 02:36
Editorial
South Korea has been pressured to find a proper solution to the rapidly decreasing population amid persistent low births and fast aging. It has poured some 280 trillion won ($22....
It was unusually cold and snowy this winter in Korea. Cold waves and heavy snow warnings were issued frequently, with temperatures in some cities falling to record lows.
Thoughts of the Times
I love Seoul's subway. It never fails to bring me to my destination on time. This belief had been firm, until an incident where a specific...
As the sun rose on a Monday morning over Myeong-dong, downtown Seoul, the eye was struck with horror. A whole alley in the popular shoppin...
Blogs
In Korea, the New Year began with change and trepidation. December had been brutally cold but the first week of January 1898 was pleasantl...
Language is magic. It creates ideas, places, people and smells. With words we summon both the past and the future; we explore the oceans, ...
Korea, in the early months of 1885, was in turmoil. A failed coup attempt in December 1884 resulted in large numbers of Japanese and Chine...
Read something in the mainstream press and Confucianism will likely be linked to any or all of the following situations: the crash of Asia...
If you want to write a book and it is the two of you writing it, you have to work together a lot, share a lot. It is challenging, especial...
Columns
Lee Jong-eun
As the world begins 2023, the geopolitical situation around the world is not bright. In Europe, the Russia-Ukraine War has dragged on for ...
Rushan Ziatdinov
Google Scholar is a wonderful, freely accessible web search engine that indexes academic publications' full text or metadata from various ...
Moments after he became Pennsylvania's 48th chief executive, Gov. Josh Shapiro delivered a message to state residents who voted for the co...
. Jason Lim
Gwen Stefani caused a minor ruckus recently when she proclaimed in an interview that she identifies as Japanese. She was referring to the ...
. Jang Da-wool
“With great power comes great responsibility.” Whether you attribute this quote to the Spider-Man movies, Voltaire, or Winston Churchill, ...
I love my gas stove - almost as much as I love my Weber gas grill. So I became curious this past week when I heard that a commissioner in ...
. Andrew Hammond
Conservative thinker Milton Friedman famously declared in the 1970s, in the period leading up to the political era defined by Ronald Reaga...
. Steven L. Shields
Not long ago, an ultra-right-wing, so-called “Christian” broadcaster in Korea won the right in the courts to continue to preach hatred and...
A week after Joe Biden became president, he signed Executive Order 14008, which announced his commitment to protect 30 percent of U.S. lan...
A constant in the political universe is the quest to occupy the moral high ground, that space that sets apart those with noble intentions ...
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Artificial intelligence
Tribune Service
The killing of 18 people in California just two days apart - 11 in Monterey Park and seven in Half Moon Bay - are the latest horrors in America's long history of gun vi...
Recently, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy contended that atrocities committed by Russian troops against unarmed Ukrainian citizens constituted war crimes. “This...
Western allies are finally realizing the Ukraine war won't end until Vladimir Putin's dreams of conquest are decisively defeated on the battlefield.
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