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Thu, December 9, 2021 | 12:34

A bilateral friendship award

The 19th Korea-America Friendship Night event took place at Walker Hall of the Grand Walker Hill Seoul on Nov. 24, 2021. The award ceremony, hosted by the Korea-America Association (KAA) and chaired by Dr. Choi Joong-kyung, was adjusted due to restrictions imposed by pandemic quarantine guidelines - limiting the number of participants, keeping adequate social distancing, and ...

2021-12-08 16:55

Pilgrimage to Britain's literary shrines

William Shakespeare is known as the greatest dramatic genius of all time. But his plays are not easy to read because they were written in Early Modern English which is quite different from the present-day English. Nevertheless, even those who have not read any of his plays love to cite one or two quotes from his plays. One quote which seems to be on everyone's lips is “To be ...

2021-12-07 17:01

Donghak's humanistic egalitarianism

I recently read “Donggyeong-Daejeon” (The Great Scripture of Eastern Learning) vol. 1, “I am Korean,” and vol. 2, “We are haneu-nim” (meaning “god” for the Donghak, or “Eastern Learning,” philosophy), with great enthusiasm. The two volumes were written by Dr. Do-ol Kim Yong-ok, a popular Korean philosopher.

2021-12-06 17:00

Attack on Pearl Harbor and aftermath

It was 80 years ago. That Sunday morning on Dec 7, 1941, could have been another beautiful day of leisure and relaxation for servicemen at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. But, shortly before 8 a.m., like a bolt from the blue, they heard the sounds of explosions, the bursts of machine-gun fire and the screams of fellow servicemen.

2021-12-05 15:03

Crime and punishment

In January 2020, The Korea Times graciously published “Siamese twins” in which I presented binominal pairs (expressions having two terms usually joined by the conjunction 'and'). I mentioned a few of these irreversible fixed/set phrases that you are familiar with: safe and sound, peace and quiet, short and sweet, etc. They permit you to express a lot with only a few words. Re...

2021-12-02 16:58

'Milanonna'

Just as winter comes every year, death is not far away from us. Someday, each of us has to face our impending death…

2021-12-01 17:00

On honesty, a cardinal human virtue

A couple of years ago, I met a man in his late 40s at our apartment council meeting. He appeared to be your regular type of a guy whom you might meet on the street. But as time passed by, he started to reveal his real identity: he was a chronic liar. He was ready to lie at any moment in which he thought he needed to get what he wanted. Eventually, people around him began to l...

2021-11-30 16:50

We want climate leadership

Fortunately, many of the kimchi cabbages that my family and I grew survived. But the lower parts of a lot of other people's kimchi cabbages on the weekend farm softened and withered.

2021-11-29 16:43

We're all in this together

It certainly has been a struggle this year. With stress and incivility ever escalating, it's an overwhelming time of chaotic change, constant adjustment, ambiguity and sadness. We have had to deal with the pandemic numbers climbing, working parents with small children facing dire situations when the daycare closes not just a for a week or two, but for a month and more, the lo...

2021-11-28 16:47

Thanksgiving and Lincoln's legacy

Thanksgiving means actual, not contrived, inclusiveness. President Abraham Lincoln profoundly demonstrates this fundamental point.

2021-11-25 17:00

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