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Thu, January 27, 2022 | 17:36

Biden, Xi mark out their turf

Expectations had been set low for this week's first presidential summit between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping. Yet, they spoke for an unexpectedly long three and a half hours, with the Chinese leader greeting his U.S. counterpart as his “old friend.”

2021-11-18 16:43

Case for drafting in Obama to help heal US-China relations

If fine oratory is a valuable art form, it is nonetheless becoming a lost one. Beware the mere glitter of charisma alone. In a politician, it is often no more than wrapping paper around a thin gift box of costume jewelry, but true orators can move mountains and nations.

2021-11-18 16:41

Living color

Given all the change that has taken place in Seoul since the “miracle” economy of the 1980s, whether cafe society, leisure activities or tourism, seeing 350-500cc motorcycles weaving through traffic strikes me the most. All that I recall seeing on the streets in the 80s were 125cc KIA motorbikes, used for delivery service.

2021-11-18 16:40

Plan now to use technology to prevent next crisis

It's time to be honest. Despite all the scientific chatter, nobody yet has a handle on the COVID-19 crisis. No one can pinpoint for certain where or how it started. No one knows when it will end.

2021-11-18 16:39

Candidates' foreign policy dilemma

The importance of an appropriate foreign policy cannot be overemphasized, especially for mid-sized countries such as Korea. History shows that such a policy is occasionally so significant as to determine the country's sustainability, and this is so for Korea due to geopolitical sensitivity, as it is surrounded by much larger, powerful nations. For leaders, a balancing act com...

2021-11-17 17:01

How (not) to make a vaccine

The COVID-19 pandemic has touched every country one way or another. South Korea has been under various levels of social distancing measures for over a year now, while the government tried to control the spread of infections. The disarray in global health governance didn't help either. After accusing the WHO of siding with China, the U.S.'s former Trump administration pulled t...

2021-11-17 17:00

Why won't Eastern Europeans get vaccinated?

In recent weeks, as Europe has again become the global epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, the surge in coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and deaths has highlighted the continued vaccine hesitancy of one group of Europeans in particular: those in the formerly communist East.

2021-11-17 16:59

'Apolitical' leader and conservative party

On Nov. 5, former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl was officially nominated as presidential candidate of the main opposition People Power Party (PPP). Until March 4, he worked as the chief prosecutor, which means he has had a political career of just eight months when he won the nomination.

2021-11-16 17:10

All in vain: building ability to adapt like Generation Flux

Questions you are asked make who you are. Questions you ask make who you lead. This is how the future of learning is defined. What we learn at school will have very different future consequences of how we live our lives. When the machines replace what we routinely do, we will have abundant freedom and control over our decisions on how to spend our time. We don't compete with ...

2021-11-16 17:00

North Korea's human rights and COVID-19 crackdowns

The ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic combined with a shroud of secrecy and indifference has hidden the fast deteriorating human rights situation in North Korea. Now yet another report by the U.N.'s Rapporteur on Human Rights in the quaintly titled Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), underscores a grim reality in the “communist” country.

2021-11-15 17:15

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