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Korea Times - Opinion

President Yoon Suk Yeol's press conference at the presidential office on Thursday, commemorating the second anniversary of his inauguration, fell short of expectations. Despite b...

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On April 30, the mandate for the U.N. Panel of Experts on North Korea expired, leaving the international community without an international mechanism to monitor North Korean sanc...

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Recently, I dropped into the Korean Temple Food Center in north Seoul. This was in order to interview its vice director and take part in a...

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Nearly eight decades after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule, both nations are actively working to create a mutually amicable...

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Darkness once ruled the nights of Seoul. During the winter of 1883/84, Percival Lowell, a young American guest to the capital, was captiva...

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Human existence is a funny thing. We are smart. We are stupid. We are capable of breathtaking feats of beauty, heart wrenching moments of ...

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On February 24, 1893, the British warship, HMS Caroline, sailed along the coast of Korea near Geomundo Islands. On board was 32-year-old S...

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In early 1890, the Eastern Whaling Company was established in Yokohama, Japan. It was a foreign venture and began operations with a single...

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Freedom Speakers International co-founder Casey Lartigue recently created an online petition calling on Western countries to open their do...

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The fragmented global response to the war in Ukraine shows that while the U.S. and its allies see policies as rooted in efforts to preserv...

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Shortly before Yoon Suk Yeol became president, I sawed down a dozen small evergreen trees in the garden right outside my bedroom window.

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CAMBRIDGE - When U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently visited Beijing in an effort to stabilize relations with China, many of t...

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NEW YORK - New U.S.-supplied weapons and money are now on their way to Ukraine. Whether to provide additional military aid was a matter of...

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Protesters and police are clashing on campuses, yet again. A Democratic presidential convention is careening toward Chicago, yet again. Here at the intersection where news meets ...

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From late April through mid-May, trees are lit in graded shades of green in South Korea. 'May was the colour of new leaves' as the protago...

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The Asia-Pacific region, a critical arena for international politics due to its economic dynamism and strategic maritime routes, is curren...

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CHICAGO - TikTok is now one of the biggest stories in business and geopolitics. U.S. President Joe Biden has just signed a law that will b...

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One of nature's phenomena that always touched me, since I was a child, was the sight of a ray of sunlight beaming out amidst ominous-looki...

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One of my pleasures in my youth was going to 'manhwa-bang,' or comic book cafes, and reading comics and cartoons all day long. There was a...

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Fifth inauguration of Vladimir Putin

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Don't hold your breath

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Since taking office in 2021, President Joe Biden has been spending money like he's printing it in the basement.

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Newly released federal data reveals an intensifying homelessness crisis impacting families across America. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's 2023 Annual...

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There is no artificial intelligence without the fruits of human inquiry.

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