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[Eric Planey] Thank you PyeongChang and Korea

On behalf of the people of the United States, I would like to say thank you, South Korea! Now I really do not have any formal capacity to say thank you on behalf of my country, but it needs to be ...

February 28, 2018
Columnists
[Kim Myong-sik] Warning: MeToo movement here may turn political

An inappropriate comment has been made on the ongoing movement against sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. Kim O-joon, a podcast host, said that the MeToo campaign was a scheme to divide ...

February 28, 2018
Columnists
[Editorial] Shorter working hours

The National Assembly has passed a revised bill to reduce standard weekly working hours from a maximum of 68 hours to 52 hours. Under the revised Labor Standards Act, working hours per week will be...

February 28, 2018
Editorial
[Photo News] Homeplus celebrates 21st anniversary

(Homeplus) South Korean discount chain Homeplus is holding a large-scale discount shopping event for four weeks from Thursday to celebrate the 21st anniversary of its foundation. Twenty-one items fr...

February 28, 2018
Industry
[Justin Fendos] Don’t forget the Paralympics

As South Korea basks in the afterglow of its second successful Olympic Games, it is important to note that another, equally special event is taking place soon after: the Paralympics. The first offic...

February 27, 2018
Columnists
[Editorial] Dialogue momentum

One obvious geopolitical legacy of the PyeongChang Olympics is that it provided a momentum for improvement of inter-Korean relations that had been stalled for years due to the North’s nuclear and mis...

February 27, 2018
Editorial
[Photo News] A glimpse into fall-winter trends at Paris Fashion Week

Jacquemus presented its fall-winter 2018-2019 ready-to-wear collection on Monday at the Petit Palais in Paris. The fall-winter 2018 Paris Fashion Week kicked off Tuesday and is set to run through Ma...

February 27, 2018
Fashion
Trump says talks with N. Korea only under right conditions

WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump said Monday that talks with North Korea are possible only under the right conditions. His remark comes after the communist regime twice stated its willingness...

February 27, 2018
North Korea
[James Stavridis] ‘Low-yield’ nukes are a very high threat

In his brilliant book tracing the origins of the First World War, “The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914,” Christopher Clark says, “The protagonists were sleepwalkers, watchful but unseein...

February 26, 2018
Columnists
[Erwin Chemerinsky] Three gun control myths that are killing American kids

The murder of 17 students and teachers in Parkland, Florida, should cause all of us to ask, how many people must die before this country finally adopts meaningful gun control laws. This, of course,...

February 26, 2018
Columnists
[Los Angeles Times] Grocery bags and takeout containers aren’t enough. It’s time to phase out all single-use plastic

Faced with an unholy tonnage of chip bags, soda bottles, takeout containers and other disposable plastic items flowing into our landfills and our waters, winding up in wildlife, drinking water and fo...

February 26, 2018
Columnists
[Editorial] Conditions for dialogue

Kim Yong-chol, vice chairman of the Workers’ Party of North Korea, said North Korean leader Kim Jong-un wanted to improve ties with Washington and had “ample intentions of holding talks” with the US,...

February 26, 2018
Editorial
[PyeongChang 2018] How foreign visitors chronicle Winter Olympics journeys online

This year, as many as 80,000 people from abroad boarded flights to South Korea in hopes of being a part of the Olympics buzz. And with the influx of visitors for the 2018 PyeongChang Games, we though...

February 26, 2018
Olympic Games
[Bandy X. Lee, Jeffrey D. Sachs] Trump’s war psyche and world peace

When Donald Trump took office early last year, many pundits believed that he would settle into his presidency and pivot to normality. But a large number of America’s mental health experts didn’t see ...

February 25, 2018
Columnists
[Leonid Bershidsky] Putin has to find way to raise incomes

The Russian presidential election is such a formality that President Vladimir Putin won’t even be filmed for his own TV spots. One thing, though, Putin is keen to ensure before the election: that Rus...

February 25, 2018
Columnists

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