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Sawasdee Seoul Thai Festival 2024: T-pop story

Thailand demonstrated remarkable humanitarian support during the 1950-53 Korean War by contributing 11,786 soldiers and four tons of rice to aid the...

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Choe Chong-Dae

The Middle East's deadly dream palaces

Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is an event of historic proportions in the Middle East. As...

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Shlomo Ben-Ami

Britain stopped using coal - Korea can too

Troy Stangarone Last month, Britain closed its last coal power plant at Ratcliffe-on-Soar. As the nation that built the world's first coal power...

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Troy Stangarone

From Milan to Toledo

Myeongdong Cathedral's Catholic Bible Academy hosted a European pilgrimage from Aug. 16 to 23, visiting the sites of the Virgin Mary's apparitions....

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Park Sung-Ik

Oct. 7, one year after - wowing the wind, reaping the whirlwind

This week marks the one-year anniversary of the horrific Hamas attack against Israel, which unfolded on Oct. 7, 2023. With the follow-on conflict...

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Mason Richey

Monopoly power is less dangerous today than in the past

Big government is going after big business — again. This time, Google has faced two federal prosecutions, almost simultaneously. In September, a...

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Arthur I. Cyr

An innocent man, Iwao Hakamada

His given name, Iwao, means stone in Japanese. Japan's police meant to break him, an innocent man. After 48 years in prison, facing the gallows, 30...

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Esther Kim

Lessons from contemporary US politics for Korea

Lee Jong-eun Many parts of the world have been closely following this year's U.S. presidential election. Amid surprises and anxieties,...

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Lee Jong-Eun

Global capitalism and perpetual war

Slavoj Zizek LJUBLJANA – When one looks for a figure who best represents the worst tendencies of our brutal age, the first names that come to...

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Slavoj Žižek

Korean names — problems resurfacing

In the last few weeks, I posted a video about problematic Korean surnames, and in the process, I learned more about a subject I thought I already...

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Mark Peterson

Inflation in deglobalizing world

Peter S. Kim The U.S. Federal Reserve surprised the market with an aggressive 0.5 percentage point rate cut last month, signaling its confidence...

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Peter S. Kim

Korea's tragic history

Today’s struggles for power in international relations make me very often rethink past tragic events. The destiny of the Korean Peninsula has...

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Heo Ma-Ne

The curse of the ginkgo

Dilkusha and the 400-year-old ginkgo tree in the 1920s / From an exhibit at the Seoul Museum of History in 2018 Once again, it is ginkgo season in...

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Robert Neff

Why 'Ode to My Father' remains relevant today

A still from the film "Ode to My Father" / Courtesy of CJ Entertainment If a house is on fire and a mother and three of her children are safely...

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David A. Tizzard

Taiwan raises territorial issue with China

Controversy has arisen over the original ownership of vast land in the Siberian Far East, including Vladivostok, a port city now accommodating...

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Hu Young-Sup

Would Korea's political discourse gain from courtesy?

When Im Jong-seok, a senior figure in the previous government, recently suggested that South Korea give up trying to take over North Korea and...

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Michael Breen

South Korea's AI dilemma: balancing innovation with ethical oversight

  Chyung Eun-joo As South Korea gears up to regulate artificial intelligence technology, following the footsteps of other jurisdictions like the...

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Chyung Eun-Ju And Joel Cho

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