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Fans of the young

A group of girls is causing a commotion in Korea. A group of people may be having a heated debate, but when this music starts, everybody becomes relaxed and the mood changes. People sing along with the refrain from the song. The band is Wonder Girl…

Nov 10,2007
The third wheel

In the United States, the two-party system is firmly established, but sometimes a third candidate receives makes a difference in the election. Ralph Nader ran for president of the United States four times. The former Democrat, a political activist fo…

Nov 09,2007
True lies

“Shouldn’t you have brought products from your town, at least?” That’s what a friend of the long ago Chinese governor Wogyeom told on visiting the capital. The friend said that when a government official in a remote town visits the capital, he has to…

Nov 08,2007
Sideways thinking

Competition is good. It is the foundation of a free market economy. We deserve tributes for our unprecedented competitive drive, which has pushed our gross national product to nearly $20,000 per capita. However, the competition is often difficult. W…

Nov 07,2007
Paradoxical-Lee

Marquis de Condorcet, a French politician and mathematician in the 18th century, believed that democratic elections do not always bring about rational results. He devised a mathematical concept to prove it. Let’s say three candidates want to run fo…

Nov 06,2007
Manual labor

After establishing their empire, the Romans were able to control all of the Western world by systematically relying upon manuals, which they used for various battle scenarios. By organizing their military strength systematically, they expanded their …

Nov 05,2007
Old men and the wise

Growing older doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to get wiser, especially in culture and arts. Many contemporary artists became legends because they died young. Think of James Dean, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Kim Hyun-sik and Kim Gwang-seok. They …

Nov 03,2007
A sorrowful situation

There have been 16 presidential elections since the Republic of Korea was founded in 1948. Happenstances likely to be seen only in movies have occurred since the third presidential and vice presidential election. In May 1956, candidate Shin Ik-hee …

Nov 02,2007
Point of no return

Xie An was a famed man with a powerful family. He also was a very romantic person. He started a career in the court, only to quit because of deadly boredom. Instead, he concentrated on traveling to beautiful places and writing poems. During the Eas…

Nov 01,2007
Off their game

Cho Nam-cheol, who pioneered Korean baduk, a game called go in Japan, frequently went to newspaper companies with the records of contemporary baduk champions he discovered in the ruins of the Korean War. However, the newspaper companies never paid hi…

Oct 31,2007

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