“Silver Tigris & Euphrates Watershed” is a new work created with recycled silver. “I choose rivers because they are just so critically important. Tigris-Euphrates river is almost the dawn of human civilization. It is sort of the beginning of civilization as we know it today. They are very important historically and ecologically,” Lin said. Lin used recycled silver to create the rivers in "Silver...

China's example shows soft power can't be achieved via government campaign

He described his journey to mastering Korean as opening “a door of opportunity.” “Studying Korean has helped me to become a popular YouTuber while allowing me to meet my Korean wife. It has opened up so many doors that I never knew existed. I owe a large portion of my life to having studied the Korean language, and I can’t imagine what I would be doing now if I hadn’t studied it,” he said. So h...

Seoul shares opened lower Monday, tracking losses on Wall Street, as the US Federal Reserve said last week it will continue to raise rates for a while to tame inflation. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index fell 30.8 points, or 1.24 percent, to 2,449.60 points in the first 15 minutes of trading. On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.4 percent to 33,926.01 points, whil...

North Korea plans to hold a plenary meeting of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea in late February to discuss issues related to agricultural development, its state media said Monday. At a politburo meeting of the WPK's Central Committee held the previous day, the North unanimously decided to convene the seventh enlarged plenary meeting of the party late this month, according to the Korean Centra...

SINAN -- 5 of crew members missing from fishing boat capsizing found dead Rescuers searching a 24-ton fishing boat that capsized off the southwestern coast found five missing crew members dead inside the shipwreck Monday, Coast Guard officials said. Seawater started to flood the ship's engine room, causing the vessel, the Cheongbo, to overturn at 11:19 p.m. Saturday in waters 16.6 kilometers we...

South Korea’s population shrank last year, continuing its downward trend for three years in a row with the number of single-person households close to 10 million, government data showed. The Ministry of Interior and Safety said the country’s registered population stood at 51,439,038 as of Dec. 31 of last year, down 0.39 percent from a year earlier. Single-person households continued to rise to ...

My book on the economic history of the 20th century, published last fall, did not include a chapter on the question of the future or “what we should do next,” because my frequent co-author, Stephen S. Cohen, convinced me that whatever I wrote would come to look outdated and silly within six months. He was right: Such arguments are better left to commentaries like this one. So, if I had written a ...

Winter is coming! It’s a famous line often cited from US fantasy series “Game of Thrones.” Russia was able to defeat Napoleon’s invasion in 1812 and to stop Hitler’s advance in 1941 thanks to the cold weather. Perhaps, Russian President Vladimir Putin might have expected such a weather chance when he decided to invade Ukraine. But, his attempt to block the EU’s intervention by threatening to cut...

Speaking at Sunday’s ceremony, Lee Jong-chul, the father of the late Lee Ji-han, a 24-year-old actor who lost his life in the crush, pleaded for keeping the memorial altar in place at Gwanghwamun. “We just want to mourn our children, with lots and lots of flowers,” he said, choking up. On Oct. 29, 2022, crowds of people crammed into a narrow alleyway in Itaewon, a Seoul neighborhood known for i...

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