What my wife's breasts mean to me When I first read about Angelina Jolie's piece in the New York Times about her double mastectomy, my thoughts flashed immediately to the only breasts that mattered to me: my wife's. As we all do, I asked myself the obvious "what if" questions. What..
Japan on late-night TV in China The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Shinzo Abe supposedly said the following when asked by a fellow lawmaker about his views on the 1995 Murayama Statement that apologized for Japanese colonial behavior: The definition of what constitu..
What's terrifying about terrorism? This past Monday, three people, including an 8-year-old boy, were killed by a terrorists bomb, and more than 170 people were injured.
What's President Park's problem? A recent editorial in these very pages complained that President Parks creative economy appears to be more a campaign buzzword than a fully defined policy direction.
SCARF down your brain This is the second part of my two part column on the neuroscience behind change. In the first column, I spoke about how the brain sees every new situation in black and white: will this help or hurt my survival? In other words, will this kill me or ..
Neuroscience of change Change is hard. Its so hard that people die rather than change. Studies have shown only one in nine people who have undergone coronary bypass surgery adopts a healthier lifestyle.
South Korea as hostage
Will China block unification? Will China block an eventual Korean unification? That was the question explored by the U.S. Senate Republican staff members recently in a report primarily drafted by Keith Luse, a long-time senior aide to the recently retired Senator Richard Lugar ..
Google's Sunshine Policy? When the first Barack Obama administration came into power, North Korea launched a long-range rocket, conducted its second nuclear bomb test, and declared the Korean War armistice null and void. When Obama was re-elected for a second term in Novemb..
Moon as puzzled as Romney Its ironic that the comments coming out of the Moon Jae-in camp sound a lot like those that came out of the Mitt Romney camp immediately after his loss to Barack Obama, which boils down to, We thought we had it won because everything we saw, he..
Outrage @NewYorkPost Last week, something horrible happened in New York City. A 58-year old Korean man named Han Ki-suk was pushed off a subway platform into the path of an oncoming train. No one helped him as he struggled to climb up to the platform, and he was crushe..
Why do men cheat? The central question that arose out of all the handwringing over the recent Petraeus Affair was why powerful men risk everything that they ever worked for to have an affair.
Google, Dokdo, and Princess Bride Recently, members of Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) held a protest in front of Googles Mountain View headquarters to express its displeasure over the corporations recent decision to refer to Dokdo as the Liancourt Rocks on its global ..
Sandy's leadership lesson For some crazy moment on Monday when Frankenstorm Sandy was threatening to tear a hole in our roof and I was sure we would lose power, I remembered a funny cartoon from the summer when a freak Derecho storm did rob us of power for two days. ..
Forgiving Japan I remember listening to the Ven. Bomnyeon, a Buddhist monk who is well-known and respected for his off-the-cuff lectures on all issues ranging from North Korea nukes to personal relationships, field a question from a woman who had been brutally rap..
Korean American or American Korean? Above is the title of a lecture that I have to give to a group of University of Maryland students this Friday for a College Leadership Academy session sponsored by the D.C. chapter of the Peace Foundation.
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