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U.S. President Barack Obama recently cautioned U.S. Coast Guard Academy graduates in a commencement speech: “I’m here today to say that climate change …

Watching how the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, otherwise known as camel flu, has seriously affected South Korea, one wonders how a land where …

The last thing my mom expected was an unannounced visit from a social worker to “check up” on us. Yet there was a woman from the Board of Education, …

I just finished reading Adam Tooze’s “The Deluge,” a history of how U.S. economic power changed the course of history during the world wars. It’s …

Just as in the Sewol ferry sinking, government officials botched their response, this time failing to contain the Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in …

The government has decided to shut down the nation’s oldest nuclear reactor, the Kori No. 1 in Busan in 2017 after 37 years of commercial operation. The …

WASHINGTON ― The Obama administration and the Islamic State both issued new manifestos for the battle in Iraq last week. Guess which one is more forceful? …

GENEVA ― The scenes of death and misery that are occurring with increasing frequency in the waters of the Mediterranean and Southeast Asia have focused …

PRINCETON, New Jersey ― Two hundred years ago this month, at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte’s defeat at the hands of an allied army, led by the …

A very important development in the first week of June that will bring huge benefits to the financial services industry in Korea has gone largely unnoticed …