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Michael BreenThe Korea Times |
In the wake of Tuesday night’s on-off declaration of martial law, as bewilderment turned to anger and the nation, it seemed, realized President Yoon...
A few months ago, as soon as our political leaders figured that Donald Trump might win the presidential election, they asked the United States if...
If the pollsters are right this time and the race is that tight, when Americans vote on Tuesday for their next president, the outcome may well depend...
Michael Breen When Han Kang won the Nobel Prize this month, people rushed to buy her works. Bookstores reported sales of over 1 million copies within...
If the pollsters are right this time and the race is that tight, when Americans vote on Tuesday for their next president, the outcome may well depend...
Michael Breen When Han Kang won the Nobel Prize this month, people rushed to buy her works. Bookstores reported sales of over 1 million copies within...
North Korea this month amended its constitution to formalize its abandonment of reunification. It followed up immediately with an announcement that it...
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...
In a discussion recently about young people who don’t bother with relationships or careers, the only Korean man in our group made a point that got...
In a discussion recently about young people who don’t bother with relationships or careers, the only Korean man in our group made a point that got...
When the leader of the main opposition party in a stable, advanced democracy hints that the government is planning to introduce martial law, as...
The news earlier this month that the late Kim Dae-jung’s son had sold the family home in Seoul to the owner of a coffee franchise stirred up the...
When South Korea’s Olympic athletes were wrongly introduced as North Koreans at the opening of the Paris Olympics, it was a minor error for the...
Many years ago, I turned up at an office to find the manager I had come to see, going through a pile of papers. As we talked, he continued this task,...
Despite Korea’s healthy reputation for feisty politics, the current petition to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol exposes an underlying weakness in...
At the beginning of this year, when Kim Jong-un announced he was abandoning reunification, South Koreans were flummoxed and did not know how to react....
At the beginning of this year, when Kim Jong-un announced he was abandoning reunification, South Koreans were flummoxed and did not know how to react....
If you were to peer into a crystal ball and summon the best future for Northeast Asia, it is hard not to agree that the region envisioned would be...
For decades now, since the world came to agree with what South Koreans felt all along — that theirs was the better Korea — we have been...
Shortly before Yoon Suk Yeol became president, I sawed down a dozen small evergreen trees in the garden right outside my bedroom window. The new view...
With the conservatives given a gigantic thumbs down in last week’s elections, everyone is now wondering whether the progressives might try to...