• After help from overseas ’mom,’ woman returns the favor
    "When I heard that Mother in the United States passed away, I was so sad." Kim Myeong-ja, 52, whom I met at her house in Daegu on October 29, still mourns the death of her "o...
    Oct.31,2006 15:21 KST
  • Ghost writers
    Korean society recently had to go through the shock of discovering that a foreign book supposedly translated by a famous woman had instead been translated by someone completley ...
    Oct.31,2006 15:13 KST
  • European Muslims: caught between two worlds
    Delwar Hussein, 27, is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of London, and is currently writing a novel about the Bangladeshi diaspora. His Bangladeshi father was born to an uppe...
    Oct.31,2006 14:49 KST
  • Foreign laborers often denied pension payments
    Of the monthly pension collected from foreign workers by the National Pension Service (NPS), in the past five years up to 12 billion won (US$12.5 million) has not been returned ...
    Oct.31,2006 14:08 KST
  • First chill of winter
    A group of elementary schoolers heads to class on October 31, with the morning temperature down around 8 degrees Celcius around Seoul.
    Oct.31,2006 13:58 KST
  • A picture says 1,000 words
    Various painters have gathered to show off their skills in a "political landscape drawing contest." Members of the ruling Uri Party are trying to draw out what the next real...
    Oct.30,2006 15:49 KST
  • [Column] Do you want N.K. to become another Iraq?
    Kim Ji-seok, Editorial Writer The proton and neutron in a nucleus are combined in a strong atomic blast. But if an even stronger force is added and fusion is released, many n...
    Oct.30,2006 15:43 KST
  • A second letter from North Korea tells of the same plight
    A Korean Christian residing overseas, who has helped North Korean children on humanitarian missions, sent a letter to The Hankyoreh on October 24. The letter expressed North Kor...
    Oct.30,2006 15:34 KST
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