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July 22, 2018 Food

How avocados are gaining ground in Korea

A growing number of South Koreans are discovering the value of avocados. While its oddly soft texture, green hue and rough exterior may have been unsettling at first, the avocado is now being praise...

[Editorial] Back to nuclear energy

With electricity demand surging due to the sweltering heat, the government, which has vowed to stop using nuclear energy, is paradoxically increasing the use of nuclear power plants. Electricity dem...

July 22, 2018
Editorial
[Kent Harrington] Trump in denial about North Korea

No one yet knows what deals US President Donald Trump may have struck with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their private two-hour meeting in Helsinki. But it is already clear that Trump’s sel...

July 22, 2018
Columnists
[Justin Fendos] Changing Korean culture

No country’s culture is static. Many, even some scholars in the field, often make the mistake of referring to culture as if it were some monolithic constant that persists from one generation to the n...

July 22, 2018
Columnists
[Ann McFeatters] Time for Trump supporters to stop supporting him

At least we know Donald Trump is not a Manchurian candidate. His proclivities for US enemies are exuberantly open, naively uninformed and boldly anti-American. Trump is, as conservative columnist G...

July 22, 2018
Columnists
Macallan releases Edition No. 4 to celebrate heritage

The Macallan has released a new whisky called Edition No. 4 to celebrate the craftsmanship and pioneering design of the new Macallan Distillery, its importer Edrington Korea said Sunday. Demonstrati...

July 22, 2018
Industry
[Breaking] Documents indicate martial law proposal more deliberate than thought: Cheong Wa Dae

Documents submitted by the defense ministry show the earlier reported proposal from the defense intelligence agency to declare martial law may have been more deliberate than earlier believed, the pre...

July 20, 2018
Defense
China donates 7m euros to Cameroon's security forces

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AFP) -- China has donated 6.86 million euros ($7.95 million) to Cameroon‘s army to boost its “peacekeeping and security operations”, state radio reported Thursday. The donation w...

July 19, 2018
International
Investor frenzy in S. Korea over Russia treasure ship rumors

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A South Korean company‘s claim to have found a sunken Russian warship has triggered investor frenzy amid speculation the ship was carrying an enormous amount of gold when i...

July 19, 2018
Social affairs
Indian forces kill 8 Maoist insurgents in forest gunbattle

PATNA, India (AP) -- Security forces killed eight Maoist insurgents, including four women, in an exchange of gunfire early Thursday in their stronghold in central India, a police officer said. T...

July 19, 2018
International
Zuckerberg: Holocaust deniers won‘t be banned from Facebook

NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says while he finds Holocaust denial “deeply offensive,” he doesn‘t believe that such content should be banned from Facebook. Speaking with Recode’s Ka...

July 19, 2018
International
Global report singles out North Korea on slavery

LONDON (AP) -- A new report has singled out North Korea as the country with the highest prevalence of modern slavery. The Global Slavery Index shows one in 10 people in North Korea live in slave...

July 19, 2018
North Korea
Israel adopts controversial Jewish nation-state law

JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Israel‘s parliament on Thursday adopted a law defining the country as the nation state of the Jewish people, provoking fears it could lead to blatant discrimination against Arab ci...

July 19, 2018
International
[Weekender] Ethereal summer escapes overseas

As the summer heat rolls through Korea, many are hoping to travel abroad for an enjoyable, relaxing vacation. With so many convincing options and intriguing places, it is often overwhelming to resear...

July 19, 2018
Travel
[Robert J. Shiller] How to protect workers without trade tariffs

According to a Washington Post/Schar School poll of Americans published on July 11, only 39 percent of respondents approved of US President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on foreign countries, ...

July 19, 2018
Columnists

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