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Wake-up call for Korea's economic future The International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a stark warning about Korea's economic outlook, revising its growth forecas...

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The war between Russia and Ukraine has reached a critical turning point, marked by alarming developments that threaten to escalate the conflict further. Ukraine's recent use of U...

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On Nov. 6, the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Seoul hosted a special event to commemorate Victory Day, observed annually on Nov. 8.

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Almost everyone has wounds from their fathers. Perhaps I read this passage from a certain book when I was a college student. I was not an ...

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"From time immemorial the sport of bowling has held a place in the pastimes of mankind, not as prominently in past centuries as in the pre...

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I'm meant to write something about how Korean education sucks. How it drains the life out of students. Creates robots incapable of indepen...

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I attended my first Korean wedding in the winter of 2005, trudging through the snow in an ill-fitting suit to an unfamiliar venue. I wasn'...

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In the summer of 1900, Francis Arthur Coleridge, a 30-year-old Englishman with the Indian Civil Service, made a brief visit to Wonsan aboa...

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This week I sat down with a group of BTS fans from around the world and spent two hours listening to their stories. As a lot of the media ...

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My homeland just went through a hard-fought presidential election that pitted half the country against the other half. The prevailing side...

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One notable example of "paying it forward" under a U.S. president's legacy is the Eisenhower Fellowships Program. This fellowship is named...

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That is what started happening in Haiti on Tuesday: three different American airliners were hit by bullets in rapid succession, and the U....

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For over half a century, The Korea Times has nurtured aspiring translators through its Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards, celebrating the efforts of translators who con...

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In the end, it did not come down to Pennsylvania, nor Michigan, nor Georgia. It was all of them, and even Nevada. Contrary to a widespread...

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NEW YORK - Donald Trump's resounding victory in last week's U.S. presidential election should not have come as a shock to anyone. Th...

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In July, shortly after taking office, I met with Vietnam's minister of home affairs to discuss our collaborative efforts in personnel admi...

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Donald Trump's return to the White House has sent ripples through East Asia, a region deeply affected by U.S. policy shifts. In a world ma...

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When Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign in 2020, he suggested that history would look back on Donald Trump as an aberration in U...

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Although mindfulness may seem like a modern invention, it has been around for centuries, with its roots in Eastern contemplative practices...

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Donald Trump's return to the White House means that one of his signature issues will soon return to the center of Washington's economic policy agenda: tariffs. And whil...

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President-elect Donald Trump is moving aggressively on mass deportation, installing two of the most strident anti-immigrant voices in his circle in key positions.

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It's been nearly eight months since avian flu was first detected in U.S. dairy herds, and cases in both cows and humans continue to pile u...

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