Opinion
Tue, March 28, 2023 | 08:05
Editorial
The National Assembly is largely tasked with coordinating differing opinions to resolve social conflicts. Contrary to this expectation, however, the nation's leading legislative ...
Two developed countries are undergoing social turmoil due to reforms.
Thoughts of the Times
March is Women's History Month. This month we celebrate women's achievements and reflect on the ongoing challenges we face in achieving ge...
Japan and South Korea, two increasingly powerful nations, have reached an important agreement with far-reaching positive implications. On ...
Blogs
This week has been a busy one in Korean politics. While everyone was still debating the rights and wrongs of President Yoon's diplomatic t...
Over the last couple of decades, Jeju has often been called the Island of World Peace. But in the spring of 1903, it was anything but peac...
“The position of court physician [in the mid-1880s] was no sinecure,” especially if you were a foreigner, declared Horace N. Allen in one ...
Revolutions do not happen often in popular culture. We normally just go through phases: cycling through a series of trends with things mov...
Four North Korean refugees in Freedom Speakers International (FSI) participated in a forum in Seoul, Thursday, with 25 students and staff ...
Columns
Peter S. Kim
Since the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank launched its historic rate hikes, investors held their breath for the “whale” to surface. Many investo...
. Daniel Shin
Content moderation can have a disproportionate effect on already-marginalized groups of people. Content moderation often results in mass t...
In 2019, South Korean President Moon Jae-in expressed the goal to achieve Korean reunification by 2045 and hosting a joint Seoul-Pyongyang...
. Steven L. Shields
I've learned a few things about Gwangju over the past several years. First, the events in Gwangju in 1980 were horrifying. Second, many un...
On March 9, South Korea's Yoon Suk Yeol administration announced a bilateral agreement with Japan to compensate former wartime laborers th...
When my three semi-grown daughters were young (and since I work in the lucrative world of public education), we'd spend our spring break h...
. Jason Lim
“If you want coffee,” my fellow traveler warned me with a twinkle in his eyes, “don't go into a coffee shop.” This was my first day in Ams...
Rushan Ziatdinov
Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI. Although it is still in its infancy, ChatGPT...
Although the arrest warrant issued on Russian President Vladimir Putin by the International Criminal Court last week was welcome, there wa...
Whether or not to help the Ukrainians drive Russian invaders out of their country is rapidly becoming a 2024 campaign issue.
Cartoons
Credit check
Netanyahu's judicial overhaul
Tribune Service
I've been thinking about death lately. Turning 50 can do that to a person. I exercise regularly, drink water … all of that. But the reality is the life expectancy of a ...
This month, a hunk of space junk hurtled toward the International Space Station, putting the safety of astronauts and their orbiting outpost at risk. Fortunately, the c...
A few months ago, I knocked on the front door of a house in El Centro while searching for Republicans to interview for a story. An elderly white man opened the main doo...
Today in History

1837-Felix Mendelssohn marries Cecile Jeanrenaud

1885-U.S. Salvation Army officially organized

1917-Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities

1939-Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco

1944-Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle & begins writing “Pippi Longstocking&rd...

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