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Sun, May 29, 2022 | 05:40

End 'imperial' presidency

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol has been promising to end the country's “imperial” presidency since he launched his presidential candidacy last year. After winning the March 9 election, he reaffirmed his pledge by announcing a plan to relocate the presidential office from Cheong Wa Dae to a new site in Yongsan, central Seoul.

Park Yoon-bae | 2022-04-27 16:38

Politics of patriotism and contemporary history of Korea

Doing research on contemporary Korean history is like walking through a minefield. My recent research into the life of one relative inadvertently taught me a thing or two about the contemporary history of South Korea and how it is being accepted. A relatively small discovery has grown into massive research that has also guided me through various institutions, meetings with in...

2022-04-27 16:34

Rushing to wartime reality

The headline on The New York Times' dead-tree edition's front page reported this breaking news on April 20: “West Rushes to Give Ukraine Heavier Weapons.”

2022-04-27 16:28

Whiteness and COVID-19

COVID-19, as deadly and crippling as it can be, provided, and indeed is providing, an important trove of information by which we can measure the scourge of white supremacist imperialism and the lethal consequences thereof.

2022-04-26 16:34

Visible hand to address invisible climate change

The Atomic Scientists in the Science and Security Board brought up an insightful perspective in their 2022 Doomsday Clock statement last January: Nuclear weapons and climate change are equally the two most serious existential threats to humankind. Nuclear weapons are regarded as a visible and immediate threat, while climate change is considered as invisible and slow onset thr...

2022-04-26 16:30

What NATO's northern expansion means

While the likely outcome of Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine remains unclear, Russia's aggression has already changed the European security order in important ways. The only modern European historical comparison is Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939. Both cases involved large-scale unprovoked attacks on a neighboring country with the aim of eliminating it. Hitl...

2022-04-26 16:26

South Korea's diplomatic olive branch to Japan and obstacles ahead

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol is seeking to improve bilateral relations between South Korea and Japan. Unlike other Korean leaders, he is a neophyte and it is expected that he may reintroduce a “future-oriented” relationship with Japan.

2022-04-25 16:29

Why Macron's re-election matters to world

It was not just much of the French populace which held its breath Sunday as the presidential election saw incumbent Emmanuel Macron beat off the right-wing challenge of Marine Le Pen.

2022-04-25 16:25

False promise of democratic peace

Through persuasion, exhortation, legal processes, economic pressure, and sometimes military force, American foreign policy asserts the United States' view about how the world should be run. Only two countries in recent history have had such world-transforming ambitions: Britain and the U.S. In the last 150 years, these are the only two countries whose power - hard and soft, f...

2022-04-25 16:21

Paradigm shifts in jokbo understanding

Last month, after writing a “call to arms” for all Koreans, especially the female half of Korea, to redo their jokbo (genealogies) and start to think of jokbo as the pre-18th-century Korean “pal-gojodo” chart, which is the same as the Western “five-generation pedigree chart.” I started thinking more about what it will take to bring about such a paradigm shift. And it appears ...

2022-04-24 15:49

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