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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...1 day ago
On Nov. 6, the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Seoul hosted a special event to commemorate Victory Day, observed annually on Nov. 8.7 hours ago
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 ...1 day ago
"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...4 days ago
I'm meant to write something about how Korean education sucks. How it drains the life out of students. Creates robots incapable of indepen...4 days ago
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'...11 days ago
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...12 days ago
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 ...18 days ago
My homeland just went through a hard-fought presidential election that pitted half the country against the other half. The prevailing side...1 hour ago
One notable example of "paying it forward" under a U.S. president's legacy is the Eisenhower Fellowships Program. This fellowship is named...5 hours ago
That is what started happening in Haiti on Tuesday: three different American airliners were hit by bullets in rapid succession, and the U....7 hours ago
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...1 day ago
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...1 day ago
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...1 day ago
In July, shortly after taking office, I met with Vietnam's minister of home affairs to discuss our collaborative efforts in personnel admi...2 days ago
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...2 days ago
When Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign in 2020, he suggested that history would look back on Donald Trump as an aberration in U...2 days ago
Although mindfulness may seem like a modern invention, it has been around for centuries, with its roots in Eastern contemplative practices...3 days ago
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...7 hours ago
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.7 hours ago
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...7 hours ago