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Fri, February 28, 2020 | 09:56

Oh Young-jin

Prize that belittles winner

Which is wrong, the award or its recipient? That is the question I had as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to Seoul to receive the 14th Seoul Peace Prize that has a handsome cash award. My answer is that the award is more wrong than the winner.

Oh Young-jin | 2019-02-22 16:35

Oh Young-jin

Foreign minister's misplaced modesty

Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha has left much to be desired over the way she handled herself at the conclusion of ROK-U.S. cost-sharing talks for U.S. forces stationed here. Call it serendipity, but it is possible to correlate Minister Kang's lack of a poker face with U.S. President Donald Trump's demand for an additional increase in Korea's share of costs Tuesday. Kang was c...

Oh Young-jin | 2019-02-15 17:16

Oh Young-jin

Trump right on spot on North Korea

By most measures being floated now, the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un is doomed to fail. One common feature among those measures is the need for the North to take concrete steps to achieve complete (permanent), verifiable and irreversible destruction of its nuclear program - C(P)VID - or FFVD, fully verifiable denuclear...

Oh Young-jin | 2019-02-08 15:36

Oh Young-jin

Forgiving Japan without forgetting

There are countless reasons to dislike Japan, but Korea needs a strategic mind to set them aside to identify areas of common interest and push their joint agenda together. So far, the two have been caught in a severe case of myopia, overly focusing on their differences and wasting precious energy.

Oh Young-jin | 2019-02-01 17:31

Oh Young-jin

Let's pay Trump off

Conspicuous by its absence is the leadership of the government, which obviously is falling back on the “candlelight mentality” to follow the masses' power and wisdom as it did during the popular protests to topple the Park Geun-hye government. This time, that populist approach is wrong and the government should take a cool-headed approach, even at the risk of alienating its s...

Oh Young-jin | 2019-01-25 14:25

Oh Young-jin

[INTERVIEW] 'We need to incentivize corporations, banks in tackling social issues'

Corporations and banks should get more involved in solving the problems facing the communities they belong to in order to gain more of the public's acceptance and therefore grow on a sustainable basis. One way to encourage them to do that is to describe their social contributions in dollar terms to help the investors decide which firm they will put their money into, a scholar...

Oh Young-jin | 2018-12-03 17:16

Oh Young-jin

President Moon Jae-in makes irreversible 'all-in' bet

Will President Moon Jae-in make a U-turn on his key policies that are alienating the public in order to recover his sagging approval? His approval rating has dipped below 50 percent for the first time since he took office 18 months ago. You would be wrong to think President Moon would reverse the minimum wage rises, revoke the exit from nuclear power in the nation's energy mi...

Oh Young-jin | 2018-11-30 14:19

Oh Young-jin

Jewish-Japan links on BTS

BTS has apologized for wearing a t-shirt bearing the photo of an atomic bomb exploding in Japan and sporting a wardrobe reminding Nazi symbols. The global K-pop sensation said that it was not their intention to cause distress among the victims and offered apologies for those who suffered nonetheless.

Oh Young-jin | 2018-11-16 17:02

Oh Young-jin

Saving ROK-US alliance

US CAMP HUMPREYS, Pyeongtaek - The change of command ceremony at Barker Field in U.S. Camp Humphreys Thursday, carried with it a complicated set of changes in sentiment, history and uncertainty about the ROK-U.S. alliance. New U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) commander, Gen. Robert Abrams, captured this when he said, "The current conditions on the Korean Peninsula are as dynamic as t...

Oh Young-jin | 2018-11-09 17:29

Oh Young-jin

The Beatles, not BTS, suck

My dear friend Prof. David Tizzard deserves more white hairs and wrinkles, not for the wisdom he usually displays in his lectures and columns but for a show of rigidity atypical of him.

Oh Young-jin | 2018-11-02 17:07

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