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SIS Varsity Volleyball Bench

Unsung heroes of varsity sports: bench players

Danny Donghyun Han, Reporter | Sep 22, 2023

Behind every star in the sports world, hundreds, if not more, of bench players do not receive the attention they deserve. As much as historic players, such as Lionel Messi in football or Michael Jordan...

From Arabian nights to stadium lights: How Saudi improved sports

From Arabian nights to stadium lights: How Saudi improved sports

Waan Choi, Copy Editor | Sep 6, 2023

Since 2021, Saudi Arabia has spent over $6.5 billion in their soccer industry. With their tremendous wealth, Saudi Arabian sports teams and leagues can supercharge player contracts, paying well over twice...

Editorial: Farewell, Ms. Grant

Editorial: Farewell, Ms. Grant

Daniel Shin, Editor-In-Chief | Jun 2, 2023

Having bid farewell to the senior editors, I am now tasked with serving as Editor-in-Chief of Tiger Times Online for the 2023-'24 school year. The past two years have hardly been easy—from handling criticism...

How authentic is your ‘authentic’ Korean food?

How authentic is your ‘authentic’ Korean food?

Cherlin Kim, Managing Editor | Apr 3, 2023

As you pass food trucks and restaurants in Koreatown in the US, you see neon signs flashing “Authentic Korean Food” to lure immigrants longing for a taste of home and intrigued non-Koreans who want...

South Koreas 69-hour work week: a big step backwards

South Korea’s 69-hour work week: a big step backwards

Paul Moon, Managing Editor | Apr 3, 2023

In early March, the South Korean government headed by the Conservative Party and President Yoon Seok-yeol announced a new policy of increasing the weekly maximum working hour limit from 52 hours to 69....

Education for Gen Z: A new era of cheating?

Education for Gen Z: A new era of cheating?

Daniel Shin, Editor-In-Chief | Mar 21, 2023

Ever since ChatGPT took the world by storm last November, many braced for an impending educational apocalypse, suggesting that schools should learn to live with the artificial intelligence chatbot—an...

Driver’s License: too easy or just enough?

Driver’s License: too easy or just enough?

Andrew Shin, Reporter | Mar 15, 2023

As SIS seniors pass their 18th birthdays, they can begin the relatively simple process of attaining a driver’s license: watch an hour-long video on road safety and pass a written test, a driving course...

Highschool students vaping

Just because you can, does not mean you should

Chelsea Kim, Social Media Manager | Mar 13, 2023

  Vaping is more common now than ever among teens. The most common reasons youth experiment with e-cigarettes are curiosity, peer pressure, boredom, and anxiety. Knowing that it is easy to engage...

Don’t trip, give us grade-level trips

Don’t trip, give us grade-level trips

Eric Hyunseung Cho, Copy Editor | Mar 13, 2023

Busan, Tokyo, Bangkok, Dubai, London, New York… There are limitless possibilities of cities that we could travel to if we had grade-level trips. In each city, students can make unforgettable memories...

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Putting international back in international school

Brandon Choi, Executive Copy Editor | Feb 28, 2023

For an international school, our school lacks a representative diverse student body. With a significant majority of our students being ethnically Korean, our school suffers from a homogenous cultural and...

Take risks, try everything

Take risks, try everything

Jordan Kim and Woojune Kim, Co-Editors-in-Chiefs | Feb 22, 2023

“I’m not really into that, so I’ll pass.” “I left because I probably won’t write it on my college application.” “No, that doesn’t fit with the rest of my activities.”  Too...

ChatGPT requires skills—teach them.

Joseph Chun, Design & Production Editor | Feb 11, 2023

Note: This article connects to the previous ChatGPT article. “Write a college-level 800-word essay exploring the theme of ambition in Macbeth. Incorporate textual evidence throughout and analyze thoroughly.” It’s...

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