(Published : Jan 1, 2021 – 05:31) The world begins 2021 with hope amid continuing despair. The roll out of vaccines in wealthy countries offers…
(Published : Jan 1, 2021 – 05:31) The world begins 2021 with hope amid continuing despair. The roll out of vaccines in wealthy countries offers…
(Published : Dec 18, 2020 – 05:31) The year 2020 has been a very cruel one, as the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe. As…
(Published : Nov 6, 2020 – 05:30) More than anything else, the face mask has come to symbolize the COVID-19 pandemic. It stirs strong emotions…
(Published : Dec 31, 2019 – 16:40) In my last column I looked back on the 2010s in South Korea; this time I look forward…
(Published : Dec 17, 2019 – 17:12) In a couple of weeks, we will enter the third decade of the 21st century. For South Korea,…
(Published : May 21, 2019 – 17:05) When I visited South Korea in the spring of 2018, everybody was talking about the breakthrough with North…
(Published : Feb 12, 2019 – 17:19) Last week, a BBC article from 2017 stating that life expectancy in South Korea would become the longest…
(Published : Jan 1, 2019 – 16:51) South Korea finds itself in an odd place as 2019 begins. Progress in inter-Korean detente slowed at the…
(Published : Nov 6, 2018 – 17:13) During the last half of October, I stayed in Madrid to practice the Spanish that I had learned…