• Politics

    Comfort woman statue unwelcome at colleges

    Local universities are unwilling to approve students’ requests to place statues of girls symbolizing Korean victims of sexual slavery on their campuses out of concerns that it may discourage their attempts to attract Japanese students. According to students at Kookmin University, Wednesday, an intramural community, comprised of 20, has sought…

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  • Politics

    Indonesian President Joko Widodo Visiting South Korea

      During the Asian Games, President Joko Widodo announced that the 2032 Olympic Games will be held in Indonesia. I would like to show full support to this. Not only me, but Koreans, other Asians, and friends all around the world will try their bests to Indonesia successfully host the…

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  • Politics

    Goodall’s “Window of Time to Sustain Our Environment”

    Yesterday, at Seoul Yeouido National Assembly Conference Center, Jane Goodall and her pupil and friend, Choi Jae-chun held a special eco-talk in front of 530 members of the audience that came by joint invitation of the Asia Journalist Association (AJA) and Jeon Hye-sook (National Assembly member). Throughout the program, Goodall…

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  • South East Asia

    Hope and Courage in Marawi City, Philippines

    By Alin Ferrer The conflict in Marawi City has entered its fourth week as of now.  On May 22, terrorist groups attacked the city and set it ablaze, an incident allegedly inspired by ISIS.  But let there be no mistake about this: the Maute group is a lawless group of…

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  • East Asia

    China: An Unnoticed Giant

    The relations between China and South Korea are bad. In March a poll indicated China overtook Japan as Korea’s most disliked foreign nation. The reason is simple: the South Korean decision to deploy the THAAD missile defense system annoyed China which reacted with introducing the “unofficial” but biting sanctions against…

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  • East Asia

    China’s first aircraft carrier Type 001A hits the water

    China’s first domestically constructed aircraft carrier, the Type 001A, hit the water on Wednesday morning, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported. CPC Central Committee Political Bureau Member and Vice-Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Fan Changlong, attended the ship launching ceremony and delivered a speech. Water flowed into the shipbuilding…

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  • Central Asia

    Could ISIS leaders rename the terrorist group to Islamic State of Uzbekistan?

    When a group of terrorists surely supported by major players of the world politics that wanted to use this terrorist group to achieve own gains both in political and economic field, was named as “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” the Islamic world did not understand this naming well or to…

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  • Politics

    [19th Presidential Election] And the lucky number is..?

    The things that we do most subconsciously depict the way we are cognitively wired. And on many occasions, it is our connotative messages that actually work to get our message across. Counting on our fingers is one of the most common things we do absent-mindedly. Only one who had never…

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  • Politics

    Global military expenditure rises to 1.686 tln USD in 2016

    The total world military expenditure rose to 1.686 trillion U.S. dollars in 2016, an increase of 0.4 percent in real terms from 2015, according to a report released on Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). According to the report, “the United States remains the country with the…

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  • East Asia

    North Korea says ready to strike U.S. aircraft carrier

    North Korea said on Sunday it was ready to sink a U.S. aircraft carrier to demonstrate its military might, as two Japanese navy ships joined a U.S. carrier group for exercises in the western Pacific, Reuters reported. “Our revolutionary forces are combat-ready to sink a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with…

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