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Sat, September 19, 2020 | 21:08

Art of repurposing

Art of repurposing

I grew up in Korea and went through my teenage years in the 1960's in Wonju, Gangwon Province. One of the things I learned from my family was to exercise my imagination to meet the needs of the day with the things at hand. Nothing was thrown out. We would find alternative uses for items when they had outlived their primary purpose. Any unusable clothing was used as rags to cl...

2020-09-18 17:09

Social status complexities

Social status complexities

As you're acutely aware, Confucian societies and social status are fundamentally linked. Social status is determined by your profession and education. Who sits at the top of the status hierarchy? A doctor that graduated from an Ivy League medical school is a likely candidate. While I understand the Ivy League is a coveted status symbol, I find it deeply perplexing that doctor...

2020-09-17 17:25

Choices for safer world

Choices for safer world

These days, children can't go to nurseries and kindergartens due to COVID-19. When they are there, they should wear a mask all the time. Young people can't meet and play with friends freely. I'm sorry that we - adults - have created this unsafe environment for children.

2020-09-16 17:34

Our COVID-19 lessons

Our COVID-19 lessons

It was early June when I received a phone call from my son: “Mom, we're moving to Anderson Island and need your help.” While the number of COVID-19 cases in Korea had stabilized, the number in the U.S. was increasing, and by August it was approaching 5 million. Despite a dissuasive tide of travel advisory warnings and well-meaning expressions of concern from friends, I rushed...

2020-09-15 17:22

Serving wounded world

Serving wounded world

How are we to serve and act in a world wounded by the COVID-19 pandemic? How are we to overcome the problems before us and survive together in this critical period?

2020-09-14 17:11

World writers who loved Korea

World writers who loved Korea

In the course of the modern and contemporary history of Korea, some foreigners have made remarkable contributions to our society and culture in different ways by undertaking a wide range of Korean studies and literature.

2020-09-13 17:03

Nixon-Kennedy Debate

Nixon-Kennedy Debate

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has not helped her Democratic Party's presidential nominee Joe Biden by suggesting he decline to debate Donald Trump. However, she has usefully drawn attention to the importance of televised encounters between presidential, and vice presidential, candidates.

2020-09-10 17:24

Redefining community service

Redefining community service

The world is growing older. Although we have yet to discover Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth, technological and medical breakthroughs have prolonged the human lifespan. At the same time, families are more reluctant to have children. These factors result in an increasing aging global population and the World Health Organization has noted that the proportion of the world's po...

2020-09-09 17:16

Bernoulli, and broken windows

Bernoulli, and broken windows

Most people think that atmospheric pressure increases in a gale or typhoon. Actually, the opposite is true. High-speed winds may blow the roof off your house, but the pressure within the winds is actually less than the still air. When the speed of fluid or air increases, its pressure decreases.

2020-09-08 17:09

Season of creation

Season of creation

“All-powerful God, you are present in the whole universe and in the smallest of your creatures. You embrace with your tenderness all that exists. Pour out upon us the power of your love, that we may protect life and beauty. Fill us with peace that we may live as brothers and sisters, harming no one. O God of the poor, help us to rescue the abandoned and forgotten of this eart...

2020-09-07 17:13

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