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Artificial idiocy

By Slavoj Zizek LJUBLJANA ― There is nothing new about "chatbots" that are capable of maintaining a conversation in natural language,...

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What school violence leaves

Actress Song Hye-kyo in a scene from Netflix series "The Glory" / Courtesy of Netflix By Kim Rahn Netflix series "The Glory" has...

22.03.2023 10

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Mantra of resilience

By Kim Ji-soo One of the trending sentences that emerged last November in Korea was "What is important is an unbreakable heart" uttered by DRX, a...

15.03.2023 20

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Benefits of being grateful

By Kwon Bong-woon We will never forget the grace and gratitude for family and friends. When we live a life of gratitude among our neighbors, the...

14.03.2023 10

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'Sugar-coated poison pill'

By Shim Jae-yun The U.S. CHIPS and Science Act has triggered ferocious controversy here, placing major chip firms into a serious dilemma. The...

08.03.2023 10

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Korea's plunging birthrate hits home

By Lee Hyo-sik It's no longer surprising to hear that Korea's birthrate has plunged to the world's lowest and continues falling as more and more...

22.02.2023 10

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President caught in quarrel with lawmaker

By Kang Hyun-kyung Winning the March 8 convention to select the ruling People Power Party's (PPP's) new chairman is part of Rep. Ahn Cheol-soo's...

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'Slam Dunk' scores big on nostalgia

Signboards at a movie theater in Seoul display the animated film "The First Slam Dunk," Jan. 15. Yonhap By Kim Rahn Every class had one...

25.01.2023 10

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Let's make Samsung, SK invest more here

By Lee Hyo-sik It is widely known that there are two things humans cannot avoid: death and taxes. Everybody dies at some point and people have to...

04.01.2023 10

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Information warfare

By Kang Hyun-kyung North Korea is a nation about which little is known to the outside world, except for its notorious weapons of mass destruction...

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Pediatricians look for jobs elsewhere as Korea's birthrate declines steadily

By Yoon Ja-young A friend of mine who is a pediatrician plans to quit her job at a local university hospital. She says she intends to prepare for...

14.12.2022 10

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Fantasy of being 'Reborn Rich' amid harsh struggle of reality

The poster for JTBC series "Reborn Rich" / Courtesy of JTBC By Kim Rahn JTBC's new series, "Reborn Rich," is drawing popularity, with its...

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Fantasy of being 'Reborn Rich' amid harsh struggle of reality

The poster for JTBC series "Reborn Rich" / Courtesy of JTBC By Kim Rahn JTBC's new series, "Reborn Rich," is drawing popularity, with its...

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Poverty porn

By Kang Hyun-kyung The first time I heard of the term, "poverty porn," was in late April 2019. I was doing a phone interview with photographer Cho...

23.11.2022 10

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Korea's car accident insurance merry-go-round policies support recurring insurance fraud

By Yoon Ja-young About two decades ago, I had a car accident. I had gotten my driver's license a few years before, but the license was...

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Should government keep buying surplus rice?

By Lee Hyo-sik Rice means something special to Koreans as the crop been an essential part of the nation's culinary culture for as long...

19.10.2022 10

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Government uses train of satire to trample on freedom of expression

Culture Minister Park Bo-gyoon looks at a cartoon satirizing the Yoon Suk-yeol government through a monitor during a parliamentary audit of the...

12.10.2022 10

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Spoiled democracy

By Kang Hyun-kyung Like a broken record, politicians say the same words again and again. Unlike a broken record which repeats the same thing...

05.10.2022 20

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