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Sun, October 25, 2020 | 23:33

Mark Peterson

My previous article, “End of han,” generated one of the largest responses of any of my articles. “Han” is something everyone knows something about. The responses fell into four categories: 1. the expression of “han” in psychiatry, 2. the origin of “han” was not ancient but rather was in the Japanese period, 3. that “han” is overplayed, exaggerated and even trite as an explana...

2020-10-25 18:50

Herd Immunity, Reinfection and the Great Barrington Declaration

Herd Immunity, Reinfection and the Great Barrington Declaration

After eight months of the global pandemic, the pressure to keep economies open and let the chips (or rather, the elderly) fall where they may is growing strong.

2020-10-25 18:20

Donald Kirk

Relationships - diplomatic, economic or personal - evolve. The U.S.-Korea relationship is not cast in stone. U.S. diplomats can go on all they want about the tightness of the bond, “no daylight between us” and all that, but it's got to change with the times.

2020-10-22 17:46

Why should US vote green?

Why should US vote green?

Next month's U.S. presidential election will not just be decisive in settling a slew of major domestic issues for the next four years; It will also have a profound impact on key international ones too with perhaps the biggest of all being the future of global climate action.

2020-10-22 17:44

How Israel failed COVID-19 test

How Israel failed COVID-19 test

TEL AVIV ― When the Jewish new year began late last month, Israel was enduring its second nationwide lockdown, after daily per capita COVID-19 infection and death rates reached some of the world's highest levels. How did a country with practically closed external borders, sophisticated technological and institutional capacities, a high-quality and efficient health-care system...

Shim Jae-yun | 2020-10-22 17:35

Changing attitudes towards religiosity: double-edged sword for Arab rulers

Changing attitudes towards religiosity: double-edged sword for Arab rulers

Public opinion polling in the Arab world suggests that autocratic leaders like Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his UAE counterpart, Mohammed bin Zayed, have gotten some things right.

2020-10-22 17:23

Do you have unanswered questions about Halloween?

Do you have unanswered questions about Halloween?

I was trying to clear the cobwebs from my mind, and all I could find was random thoughts about Halloween (a.k.a. Hallowe'en, a.k.a. Allhalloween, a.k.a. All Hallow's Eve, a.k.a. All Saints' Eve, a.k.a. the Holiday That Is Bankrupting the Federal Witness Protection Program).

2020-10-22 17:18

US not alone in widening global pandemic

US not alone in widening global pandemic

While recent flare-ups of the coronavirus have been spreading across large parts of the U.S., Americans are hardly alone in facing the deadly pandemic. Though virus outbreaks are often presented by mainstream media outlets as a political validation of the contentious mask debate, leading European countries such as France, Belgium, Spain and the United Kingdom are facing a far...

2020-10-22 17:13

Kang Hyun-kyung

What were they fighting for?

Back in the late 1980s, one of my high school classmates made me think about the cause she was then fighting for. She was a student activist taking to the street to protest the then President Chun Doo-hwan who rose to power through a military coup.

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2020-10-21 17:36

Poor financial supervision & investors' devastation

Poor financial supervision & investors' devastation

A series of fund redemption suspensions by private equity funds are disrupting the market. One notorious example is Lime Asset Management which saw losses of up to 1.6 trillion won. Many investors, not only corporate investors but also individuals who invested a significant portion of their wealth, were hit hard. There are other cases of mis-selling and failures of private eq...

2020-10-21 16:52

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