Root of all evil and financial corruption of markets Over the years, we have seen various financial and legal investment schemes that have caused great losses to individuals, corporations and nations. Due to the global financial system, all nations must play and pay! These financial schemes have incl..
North Korea's March madness UNITED NATIONS - When the Security Council passed a package of uncharacteristically tough sanctions on North Korea over the communist regimes nuclear weapons tests and missile proliferation, the Pyongyang leadership went rhetorically ballistic. P..
The Iraq war 10 years later CAMBRIDGE This month marks the 10th anniversary of the controversial American-led invasion of Iraq. What has that decision wrought over the last decade? More important, was the decision to invade rightly made?
Korea's silver linings playbook Every cloud has a silver lining as the saying goes and North Koreas recent bellicose rhetoric might provide one example. Pyongyangs war-like threats coming after its successful rocket launch and testing of its third nuclear bomb could provide a..
Musical disenchantment II My husband and I don't often do interesting things. We'll go out to dinner once in a while. Sometimes we'll get a hike in, or catch a movie, but such occasions are few and far between.
Second wave of'hallyu' One of my daughters friends is a visiting student from Liaoning, China, a very bright and talented young lady who excels in nearly all that she does. And like so many young people, she has the latest iPhone and spends a lot of her spare time tran..
Syrian Schadenfreude UNITED NATIONS All of Syrias five neighboring countries sensed a quiet pleasure in seeing the rebellion against the Damascus dictatorship start three years ago. Many observers, knowing the authoritarian political pedigree of the Assad family r..
5 women destined to change world March 8 is International Womens Day. We celebrate our sisters, mothers, wives, daughters, family, colleagues and friends. We celebrate that you are our beloved and can change the world. You have historically and continue to hold us and you hold..
Arab revolutions' reality check BERLIN Two years after popular uprisings began to convulse the Middle East, few people speak of an Arab Spring anymore. Given Syrias bloody civil war, the rise to power of Islamist forces through free elections, the ever-deepening political..
Korea leads in smart grids Spring is just around the corner.
Korea, China and Japan I suggest that in order to continue her forward trajectory as a nation and as a force contributing to global, humane civilization, Korea must cultivate China and Japan as partners in the transcendence of vulgar nationalism.
Renewing the South Korean Miracle South Koreas incoming president, Park Geun-hye, took over a country that has been a global role model for economic development. But, with the economy slowing, it has become a model in need of renewal.
Business angels Korean style Why not? There are few words that perk up the ears of entrepreneurs and business starters as much as the words business angels.
Corruption as threat to Korea's advanced society Confucius is known to have said that unless a person knows what corruption is, he or she will not be able to fight it. We cannot begin to fight corruption until we see that its possibility is in all of us. I also would argue that Confucius identifi..
Family enterprise I finally submitted The Investigation, my large translation project. That final week, I spent every spare moment fine-tuning the manuscript, a task made even more arduous by a wedding for which we had to travel to the Midwest. With a sick toddler. ..
Information revolution gets political NEW DELHI The second anniversary of the Arab Spring in Egypt was marked by riots in Tahrir Square that made many observers fear that their optimistic projections in 2011 had been dashed. Part of the problem is that expectations had been disto..
A post-growth world? PRINCETON In a provocative recent paper, Robert Gordon of Northwestern University concludes that the rate of technological progress has slowed sharply, and that the rise in standards of living (at least in the worlds rich countries) is thus se..
