No more playing chicken

Seoul, Tokyo should not miss opportunity to mend fences South Korean and Japanese negotiators met in Geneva, Friday, to find a solution to the...

In a Brazilian slum, kids dream a future without drugs, rape and murder

Reportage. In the outskirts of the Amazon city of Manaus, men lead teenage prostitutes into the forest, boys deal drugs and fathers disappear. But...

No to Occupation Tourism

The Civil Administration and the Israel Nature and Parks Authority have invited the public to visit nature preserves and national parks beyond the...

Trump’s dangerous war on the National Security Council

WASHINGTON – The impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine is primarily a story about a president who appears...

Whither nuclear arms control?

LOS ANGELES – Is nuclear arms control unraveling? The 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty has collapsed, the 2015 Iran nuclear deal...

Teaching sijo in America

By Mark Peterson I wrote last time about the Sejong Cultural Society based in Chicago and their annual fundraiser. Today I want to write about...

Musical 'Cabaret,' then and now

By Chang Se-moon On Sept. 19, my dear friend Anne Martin took me to the musical "Cabaret," being performed at the very nice Olney Theatre in Olney,...

House of Cards

One of the consequences of modern civilization is that change can happen with unexpected speed. Since the election of Donald J Trump to the White...

Third whistleblower steps up: me

By Jay Ambrose OK, look we started off with one whistleblower in the Donald Trump impeachment inquisition, excuse me, inquiry, but he or she is in...

US Denial of Sovereignty – Unipolarism Laid Bare

“With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half. ~ Otto von Bismark, Prussian statesman who...

Trump Just Stuck a Knife in the Back of America's Brothers-in-arms

Turkish troops, supported by tens of thousands of Sunni Islamist militia members, have started their invasion of the Kurdish majority region of...

China’s National Day show of military muscle risks backfiring

China’s military parade on October 1 – one of the largest in human history – to observe the 70th anniversary of the communist republic’s...

Feminism, Meninism and Moon

By David Tizzard Every Friday morning I teach a 3-hour Politics class to 70 undergrad students at one of Seoul's top universities. Despite the...

KORAIL union's strike

Demand for merger of SRT into KTX is absurd About 6,000 union workers at the Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL) continued their partial strike demanding...

America's Argentina risk

By Kaushik Basu ITHACA ― There is a growing belief that the United States is heading for a recession, possibly before the 2020 presidential...

Secret of Success

By Kim Ae-ran This year, our Congregation is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the composition of the prayer called "The Secret of Success," or...

Trapping tigers

A pig sty or tiger trap in the far north, circa 1898. Robert Neff Collection By Robert Neff In 1910, Korean tiger stories were very popular in...

BC: The Thailand Puzzle

BC stands for NEO’s Banned Classic. This article was originally published by our journal on 27.01.14   For some reason, this article is missing...

Uzbekistan Decided to Join the EAEU

As it’s been demonstrated by the results of the recent meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council (SEEC), which just came to a closure in...

Trump's new China blacklist does nothing to help US economy

Beijing plays same game with outrage at NBA, Apple and more

Atoning for Our Sins Against Animals

A while back I noticed a question to this newspaper’s advice column. The readers, a couple who live in an apartment building, said that outside...

Maďarský trik

To by neprospelo zdravej spoločenskej atmosfére na juhu našej republiky. Bola by to škoda najmä preto, lebo spoluvládnutie Mosta-Híd...

What is the source of Erdogan’s arrogance toward the West?

Commentary. Allied requests that Erdogan ‘act with restraint’ sound more than a little complicit. Turkey is free to ravage Syria and wipe the...

Opinion – Shinzō Abe and Russo-Japanese Relations

For more than 70 years have the contemporary Russo-Japanese relations been stalemated by the territorial dispute over the Kurile islands. The...

The tiger hunters

Tiger hunters circa 1905. Courtesy of Robert Oechsle By Robert Neff According to an old Chinese saying, "The Korean hunts the tiger six months in...

It’s not Turkey’s invasion of Syria that worries Europe

Analysis. This is not the first time that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used refugees as a bargaining chip against Europe. This time...

Politika trača

Ukinitev dodatka za delovno aktivnost (DDA) socialno najbolj ogroženim je zagovarjal z zgodbo o nekem paru, ki v državo pride samo zato, da bi...

Kako bi jaz ukradel Adrio Airways

Medijem je pojasnil, da jo je lahko spisal v tako kratkem času, ker je že bila napisana v njegovi duši. Vsak ima nekaj napisanega v duši, se...

Rigorous debate needed in Budget Committees of both houses

The first round of debate in the current extraordinary Diet session ended on Oct. 11 at the Lower House Budget Committee, where Prime Minister...

Johnson and Trump are trying to create sovereign executives

Sovereignty is about where supreme authority lies in a society. For the first time in centuries, the American and British political systems are...

[INTERVIEW] Life of Korean-Chinese interpreters and the future of interpretation

Kim Jin-ah By Hwang Jae-ho As a frequent participant in international conferences, I am well aware that the success of a meeting is in excellent...

China & India aren’t best friends – but this one strategic relation might prevent WAR of Asian superpowers

An enduring visual of the second ‘informal summit’ between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the ancient...

Ukraine Smolders: Greedy “Businessman” Father and Son Team!

In recent days lots of people have been getting a crash course on what is going on in Ukraine, not because it spikes their interest but due to its...

How Israelis' Self-deception Left Many of Them Confused About 'Our Boys'

As the outstanding miniseries “Our Boys” began to air, a rather strange debate developed about the intentionally misleading name the creators...

Even After Halle Attack, Defenders of the Extreme Right Won't Relent

It was the Yom Kippur of all the pens for hire – the ones specializing in shallow populism. Their two central conceptions collapsed that day. >>...

The Last Moments of Indonesia as We Know It

Student protests, West Papua independence struggle, monstrous forest fires, an earthquake and a collapsing economy – the increasingly religiously...

Certain Aspects of Trade Deficit Issue between the US and Japan

A noteworthy event during the current stage of the Global Chess Game occurred when, on 25 September of this year, US President Donald Trump and...

Moon Jae-in’s Visit to United States in September 2019

From 22 to 26 September 2019, President of the Republic of Korea was in New York. His visit included speaking at the 74th Session of the United...

Haaretz Cartoon

Changes coming to nation’s huge convenience store industry

Back in the 1980s, screenwriter Taichi Yamada rented an apartment to work out of, so he wouldn't be bothered by incoming phone calls--something he...

Is 'love and desire in Iran' a threat to US national security?

The United States Department of Education has recently been incensed by a Middle East studies programme run by two major American universities....

When is it OK for health officials to panic?

NEW YORK – There can be a hidden downside to frightening the public. New and scary diseases have always made good headlines, but if they are very...

Appeal from the universities of Rojava and Kobane

Letter. The faculties of the universities of Rojava and Kobane have pursued science and knowledge through years of war. Now a Turkish invasion...

On the Geo-Politics of Turkish Incursion into Syria

Despite the fact that Turkey has been defying the US as of recently with regard to its purchase of Russian S-400 missile system, the US president...

US could have prevented Turkey's military action on Syria

On October 6, during a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, United States President Donald Trump agreed to move American troops...

The problem with SADC's 'brotherly' stance on Zimbabwe sanctions

Following a decision made in August by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) secretariat, the body's 16 member states are expected to...

Social networks face quandary on politics in misinformation fight

As social media firms ramp up their fight against misinformation, politicians have been largely left exempt. To some, that's a huge problem....

For Xi Jinping, the biggest danger to the Communist Party is itself

At first glance, the annual plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is not only secretive but dull. For instance, after a...

Handke

Četrtek je, dan, ko običajno pišem te svoje sobotne marginalije, zaradi česar se včasih prebudim z glavobolom. To se mi zgodi vselej, kadar se v...