Opinion
Thu, March 30, 2023 | 11:54
Editorial
There are “pink seats” reserved for pregnant women on Seoul subway trains. However, these seats mostly remain empty or are used by older women - or even young men during rush hou...
Every year, two things show spring has come to the Korean Peninsula - flowers and war games.
Thoughts of the Times
There is a mythical parable in Genesis 11:1-9. Its narrative about the tower of Babel tells us why people began to speak different languag...
Over the past decade, the relationship between Korea and Japan has been complicated by historical and territorial disputes. However, amids...
Blogs
This week has been a busy one in Korean politics. While everyone was still debating the rights and wrongs of President Yoon's diplomatic t...
Over the last couple of decades, Jeju has often been called the Island of World Peace. But in the spring of 1903, it was anything but peac...
“The position of court physician [in the mid-1880s] was no sinecure,” especially if you were a foreigner, declared Horace N. Allen in one ...
Revolutions do not happen often in popular culture. We normally just go through phases: cycling through a series of trends with things mov...
Four North Korean refugees in Freedom Speakers International (FSI) participated in a forum in Seoul, Thursday, with 25 students and staff ...
Columns
Yoon Ja-young
A plan to make Sejong City's buses free from 2025, proposed by the city's mayor Choi Min-ho, recently made headlines.
The 9th Review Conference of the Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention (BWC) concluded in 2022 represents a significant step forward fo...
“Localization” has become a buzzword in international development circles, partly thanks to a push by the United States to shift more aid ...
. Donald Kirk
The heavens far above the stratosphere may be the battleground in star wars against North Korea's vaunted hypersonic cruise missiles. The ...
During a recent, surprise visit to Ukraine, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged $5.5 billion in aid to the country while clearly...
LJUBLJANA - There is nothing new about “chatbots” that are capable of maintaining a conversation in natural language, understanding a user...
Peter S. Kim
Since the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank launched its historic rate hikes, investors held their breath for the “whale” to surface. Many investo...
. Daniel Shin
Content moderation can have a disproportionate effect on already-marginalized groups of people. Content moderation often results in mass t...
In 2019, South Korean President Moon Jae-in expressed the goal to achieve Korean reunification by 2045 and hosting a joint Seoul-Pyongyang...
. Steven L. Shields
I've learned a few things about Gwangju over the past several years. First, the events in Gwangju in 1980 were horrifying. Second, many un...
Cartoons
US on Tiktok
Protecting children
Tribune Service
No one sells the future more masterfully than the tech industry. According to its proponents, we will all live in the “metaverse,” build our financial infrastructure on...
TikTok's CEO is asking America to trust him to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Let's not.
I've been thinking about death lately. Turning 50 can do that to a person. I exercise regularly, drink water … all of that. But the reality is the life expectancy of a ...
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