A growing trend of cheating sheds light on a critical flaw of Korean education
Notoriously known as the suneung in Korea, the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) is a…
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[Editorial] Kavanaugh: A dangerous political game
On Oct. 1, Saturday Night Live (SNL), a show renowned for its harsh satirization of…
Time runs out on family reunions
For most survivors of the Korean war, the deepest scar from their tribulations was losing…
Editorial: What it means to be in high school
By Hannah Kim and Junie Kah Time is a valuable resource. This notion is the…
Artificial Intelligence: Have we gone too far?
While many people worry that artificial intelligence (AI) will take over our jobs once it…
Paper Editorial: What is Tiger Times?
By Jeremy Nam and Dawn Kim The answer can be simple. Tiger Times is our…
Met Gala: Cultural appropriation or appreciation
On May 7, the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted a gala,…
Kanye West: Has he finally crossed the line?
A responsible public figure with a large international audience must consistently be mindful of the…
Don’t hold your breath for reunification
“What to do about North Korea?” has undoubtedly been the most agonizing question ever since…
Web Editorial: What went right, not wrong
By Hannah Kim and Junie Kah Communities and societies are naturally inclined to criticize and…
Letter to the Editor
By Gray Macklin To the Editor, The opening of the most recent extended viewpoint reminded…
Behind-the-scenes
If the Tiger Times newspaper is the successful older sibling who has their life together…
Inter-Korean dialogue spurs hope for denuclearization
In the wake of the diplomatic respite fostered by the PyeongChang Olympics, further efforts to…
How to find class information
“Did you hear…” “S/he said…” Words travel from the upperclassmen to the underclassmen and vice…
Dangerous thinking from the White House
By Nicholas Kim & Soomin Chun For many of us millennials in Seoul who are…
New School Café Opens
For too long, students have been craving a drink other than canned orange juice. For…
Neglecting and Silencing Victims of Larry Nassar
On Jan. 24, Lawrence Nassar, the USA Gymnastics national team doctor convicted of serial child…
Social Apathy: Why do we choose to look away?
See the original published article on Korea Times. I will never forget the day I…
Logan Paul: the pied piper of YouTube
“That giant mountain structure is Mount Fiji. That is where they make Fiji water. No.…
Net neutrality matters: Here’s why
While the Internet is currently within our reach with just one push of a button,…
Logan Paul: the pied piper of YouTube
“That giant mountain structure is Mount Fiji. That is where they make Fiji water. No.…
Learning about adulthood
An average school day unfurls: period by period, we scramble to our English, math, and…
Korean instruction necessary for global citizenry
“Seoul International School develops inquisitive, independent thinkers and collaborative learners, who acquire the essential knowledge…
President Trump’s close relationships with authoritarian leaders create possible concerns
Near the end of President Donald Trump’s trip to Asia, Senator Bernie Sanders published a…
South Korea relies on citizens’ jury to decide on nuclear plant construction
The debate over nuclear plants has become a perennial issue, for the heated discourse has…
Militarism fuels attack on Japan’s pacifism
With a landslide victory in the Japanese re-election, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has reinvigorated his…
Never too old for a field trip
By SOOMIN CHUN & NICHOLAS KIM We all remember our first field trip. For many…
The reality on South Korea’s refugee crisis
On Sept. 20, South Korea made several changes to its refugee legislation, such as providing…
The Pyeongchang Olympics fuel unintended consequences in South Korea
On August 30, 2017, the International Olympics Committee (IOC) claimed that Pyeongchang, South Korea is…
Community service focus needed at home
Clubs at SIS exist to provide extra opportunities for students to pursue their passions outside…
Let it be
By Soomin Chun & Nicholas Kim SIS is widely known among other Korean international schools…
DACA repeal: What does it mean?
The protection for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants implemented by President Barack Obama was…
The Revival of a Calamity
Promises are promises. However, when there is no particular benefit in keeping them, sometimes, one…
Why Transgender Rights are only growing worse
Recently, according to the Pew Research Center, the number of people who support the LGBTQ…
Tiger value awards: what went wrong?
It was simple, they said. A series of awards would be given to students who…