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The leaders of the two main political parties have revived the idea of selecting candidates for elected posts through the open primary system. In the lead-up …

After his meeting with President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday, opposition leader Moon Jae-in said it was a meaningful occasion to allow him to know about Park’s …

I own a TV from LG Electronics. I had not set out buying a Korean-made TV, but I wound up with one. When we first settled in Tokyo back in January, we bought a …

North Korea fires various kinds of rockets and missiles into the sea on an almost weekly basis while its young leader, with binoculars in his hand, beams …

It is apparent that the prosecution investigating suspected slush funds at the construction unit of POSCO is closing in on the conglomerate’s former CEO …

It is so evident that one may not need statistics to maintain this: Korea is a fast-aging society and many of the elderly population are not financially …

In his 1962 book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” Thomas Kuhn argued that breakthroughs in science are the result of paradigm shifts that stir …

Some time ago, I wrote a much-misread column entitled “Korean Mother: A Cultural Icon,” suggesting that, perhaps, the cultural icon of South Korea could be …

The unthinkable has happened. The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra announced last week that it is canceling the seven-city U.S. tour it had scheduled for April as …

The Internet hacker who caused a scare late last year when he posted blueprints of nuclear power plants and threatened to destroy the plants if their …