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Mon, January 17, 2022 | 10:20

8mm memories in digital age

In an interview promoting his new movie “Being the Ricardos,” about the beloved sitcom “I Love Lucy,” writer-director Aaron Sorkin referred to Lucy's “Friday audience taping.” I suppose even a media maven like Sorkin should be forgiven for bollixing terminology about motion pictures. We all do it.

2021-12-30 16:40

Escape to the slopes

Once I took up skiing in South Korea, it made being here in winter so much better. I went from enduring cold winters to anticipating ski season. I often wondered why more ESL teachers didn't ski, especially since it used to be very good value when I started in 1983. They didn't know what they were missing.

2021-12-30 16:30

Reflecting on 30th anniversary of Soviet Union's fall

On Dec. 8, 1991, Boris Yeltsin, then the president of the Russian Soviet Republic, announced the conclusion of the Belovezh Accords with the presidents of the Ukrainian and Belarus Soviet Republics, declaring the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

2021-12-29 16:43

Democracy's vital tasks

Liberal democracy is still alive, but showing clear signs of weakness. According to Freedom House, the world has experienced 15 consecutive years of global democratic backsliding.

2021-12-28 16:43

Korea's inflation control, much harder

During Oct. 16-18, central bank governors met together at the G30 International Banking Seminar to share ideas to fight rising global inflation. They agreed that the interest rates in major countries have been abnormally low due to quantitative easing (QE) policies. The consensus among the participants was that now is the time for every country to fight inflation.

2021-12-27 16:56

Africa cannot confront climate change alone

Africa contributes almost nothing to global warming. Its 1.4 billion people - around 17 percent of the global population - are responsible for less than 3 percent of the world's total greenhouse-gas emissions. Moreover, data suggest that the forests of the Congo River Basin alone absorb 3 percent of global carbon-dioxide emissions every year.

2021-12-27 16:42

Glocalization: think globally, act locally

We're approaching the end of this year. As we reflect on this year in terms of climate phenomena, global villages have experienced devastating damage from abnormal weather. In Europe, the heaviest rains and most extreme temperatures in 1,000 years were recorded. In North America, heat waves and dry weather caused wildfires to ignite spontaneously. In Asia, torrential rains oc...

2021-12-26 17:00

Korea's efforts to reach out to Southeast Asian countries

The Moon Jae-in administration has been trying to reach out Southeast Asian countries through its New Southern Policy since 2017. The goal of the policy is to improve connects with these countries by emphasizing people, peace and prosperity and to diversify South Korea's attention beyond the great powers and North Korea.

2021-12-23 16:30

Tolerating a nuclear Iran

In 1977, Israel's then-deputy prime minister, Yigael Yadin, asked Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat, who was then on his historic trip to Jerusalem, why the Egyptian army had not proceeded to the Sinai passes during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. “You have nuclear arms, haven't you heard,” was Sadat's reply.

2021-12-23 16:29

Mounting cost of Afghan resettlement

As with many immigration-related matters, too much information is purposely hidden from public view. We just witnessed an excellent example of the Biden administration's immigration subterfuge. The must-pass continuing resolution bill to fund the federal government at its current level, and therefore avoid a government shutdown, included a completely unrelated $7 billion to h...

2021-12-23 16:27

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