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By Ma Kyung-hee Since early 2010, following global trends in higher education, universities in Korea have pursued competent students...
By Park Su Jean My mom still pays my phone bill. I recently took a trip to visit my extended family, where I found myself, a working...
By Kim Jin-heon I have cultivated a farm in a high school for four years. I planted various vegetables every April, and harvested and...
By Lee Hyon-soo There is a saying that old men live in memories. A man in his twilight years, I indulge in reminiscences of the travels...
By Kim Jong-nam The ability to look inside oneself is one of the most important keys to success for any individual. Indeed, the same...
By Shin Freedman I visited an Indian Reservation in Arizona before the pandemic where I met an old woman who was a weaver. I was among...
By Sho Chang-young The national curriculum is a common program of study in schools designed to ensure nationwide uniformity of content...
By Arthur I. Cyr President Joe Biden's trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia highlights the stark contrasts between two very different, very...
By Sho Chang-young The national curriculum is a common program of study in schools designed to ensure nationwide uniformity of content...
By Arthur I. Cyr President Joe Biden's trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia highlights the stark contrasts between two very different, very...
By Choe Chong-dae The 2022 NATO Summit in Madrid, Spain, drew much attention from around the world to its host country, including from...
By Kim Ae-ran During summer vacation, I walked along several parts of the Olle Trail in Seogwipo on Jeju Island with a retired...
By Kim Sun-ae "A Conversation between Greta Thunberg and the Dalai Lama" is a book based on the dialogue that the Swedish climate...
By Kim Tae-jong The newly inaugurated President Yoon Suk-yeol has started to reveal how he "runs" the country and, when it comes to...
By Lee Eung-tae Many critical decisions I made in my past were flawed by a lack of foresight: either by deluded, sweet seduction or...
By Shin Freedman At a recent local library lecture, an old man who sat at the far end of my row asked me a question. I did not get his...
By Kim Hyun-mi For most Korean nationals, this summer may be a time to pick up two- or three-year-old overseas vacation plans, as most countries,...
By Arthur I. Cyr Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned as Conservative Party leader on July 7, but is not out of power....
By Bhaskar Anand On July 12, I went through a news article published by the BBC titled, "World Population Day: India will overtake...
By Imran Khalid Ever since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the last week of February, four major international forums have met one after another...
By Yi Woo-won While admitting that I am a feeble nonagenarian with disabilities, I still want to be my own master. As long as I can...
By Muhammad Nauman In the light of science and innovation, human civilization is divided into different phases starting from the Stone...
By Kim Ae-ran Just one year after being sent to the Diocese of Wonju, I was given another mission to go on a mission to the United...
By Arthur I. Cyr "We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." With those words, Benjamin Franklin...
By Lee Se-hyeon The social distancing has been lifted. The precious daily life lost for two years seems to be regained day by day....
By Kim Seung-jin The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our overall life pattern. Numerous companies have also diversified their working...
By Arthur I. Cyr Government leaders of the influential Group of 7 (G7) gathered June 26 to 28. They met, talked and worked on policies...
By Kim Jong-nam Last weekend, I watched a YouTube video in which an expert showed how to create a beautiful object using only a bowl of...
By Shahid Hussain The United Nations has 193 member states and they can be broadly labeled into two categories, "developed or...
By Kim Jin-heon Ms. Park, one of my study group members, suggested donation hiking. This meant she invited her friend, Ms. Yang who...
By Choe Chong-dae Although it's been more than seven decades since the 1950-53 Korean War broke out, the United Nations Memorial Park...
By Noh Yang-geun On the morning of June 10, I felt extremely fatigued and displayed the symptoms of a bad cold, so strong that I...
By Choe Chong-dae Although it's been more than seven decades since the 1950-53 Korean War broke out, the United Nations Memorial Park...
By Noh Yang-geun On the morning of June 10, I felt extremely fatigued and displayed the symptoms of a bad cold, so strong that I...
By Arthur I. Cyr President Joe Biden's May trip to Northeast Asia rightly received extensive media coverage. By contrast, however,...
By Lee Eung-tae When I met her for the first time, I was instantly won over by her glamorous appearance. Who wouldn't fall for such a...
By Sho Chang-young A few days ago, I saw a poster ad hanging at a bus stop in Seoul. It showed a picture of the late Song Hae, the...
By Alan Saldanha Australians have been directed to stagger the domestic consumption of electricity for two hours at night to make up...
By Kim Jong-nam Leaders have such complex issues to deal with that it can often seem impossible to be on top of everything....
By Kim Ae-ran There were 347 coal mining villages in 1988, but now only four mining villages remain in Korea. Among them, three mining...
By Arthur I. Cyr The totalitarian regime in North Korea is more threatening than ever. On June 5, Pyongyang launched eight short-range...
By Yi Woo-won It was in June about two decades ago. At long last, I found time to visit a Buddhist temple hidden in the lofty mountains...
By Lee Eung-tae The Russian invasion of Ukraine struck most people in the world as horrible beyond belief. How could this barbaric...
By William R. Jones I read a memoir published in 2019 by Choi Kyung-shin, which is an account of the author's personal experience in...
By Arthur I. Cyr "The Eagle has landed." Astronaut Neil Armstrong transmitted that striking statement back to Earth on July 20,...
By Shin Freedman Every June, the air is crisp, and the campus lawn has been re-sown and redecorated with flowering plants. After the...
By Kim Ae-ran This year, I celebrated the 25th anniversary of my first profession. Looking back at each step is just moving. The...
By Lee Hyon-soo In the golden age of Asia Korea was one of its lamp-bearers. And that lamp is waiting to be lit once again For...