Last week, I was pleasantly surprised to see the Korean alternative rock band The Rose appear on The Kelly Clarkson Show. This quartet, though Korean, sings most of their songs in English. It’s a natural choice, as their lead vocalist…
한국어 When soccer fans think of the English Premier League, they think of Manchester United; in Major League Baseball, the New York Yankees come to mind. When they think of college football, it is Notre Dame. Alabama may have more…
A new generation of teenage sprinters around the world is redefining the limits of the 100-meter dash. In the U.K., then 14-year-old Bronson Hearn-Smith went viral for a video showing him cruising effortlessly to the finish line, clocking 10.61 seconds…
Space Internet Competition: AST SpaceMobile Takes on Starlink, Aiming for 2.6 Billion Users with Direct-to-Phone Service Last September, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket carrying five AST SpaceMobile satellites was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Founded by Abel Avellan, a Venezuelan-born American…
(*English version at the bottom) 중국을 향한 꿈, 원주민의 악몽: 콜럼버스의 유산 원주민들의 평화는 유럽인의 유입으로 서서히 깨지기 시작했다. 일반적으로 아메리카 대륙을 처음 발견한 유럽인은 크리스토퍼 콜럼버스로 알려져 있지만, 사실 그보다 500년 앞서 북대서양을 건넌 바이킹들이 북아메리카에 작은 개척지를 세운…
한국어 Three months ago, before President Lee Jae-myung’s meeting with Donald Trump at the White House, Trump posted on social media accusing the Korean government of carrying out a purge (of Christians) and trying to start a revolution. It was…
한국어 The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to writers for the breadth and depth of their lifetime achievements rather than for a single book, unlike the Pulitzer or Booker prizes. When the Swedish Academy announced the award for the…
한국어 In the late 1990s, even as the aftershocks of the IMF financial crisis still hung heavily over the nation, President Kim Dae-jung launched a national strategy to transform Korea into an Internet powerhouse. His focus on building fiber-optic networks,…
봄에 이재명 대표가 대통령으로 당선되었을 때 나는 정말 하늘을 나는 듯한 기쁨에 휩싸였다. 그 벅찬 감정은 지금까지도 전혀 사라지지 않고 있다. 오히려 더 깊고 단단해졌다. 이재명 대통령은 내가 기대했던 것 이상이다. 그는 주말에도 쉬지 않고 일하며, 윤석열 체제 아래의 3년…
