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Mon, April 19, 2021 | 15:03

Raging helplessness of Sewol

My social media page was covered with remembrances and self-condolences about the Sewol tragedy that happened seven years ago this week. I am sure that I am not an exception. Sewol occupies an outsized place in recent Korean history. It's only a slight exaggeration that the spectacular downfall of President Park Geun-hye's administration began with the sinking of the Sewol fe...

2021-04-18 17:13

No more excuse for climate inaction

There is no magic bullet in curbing carbon emissions from fossil fuels to tackle the global climate emergency. We need to put our priority on increasing energy efficiency and replacing the use of fossil fuels with renewable sources.

2021-04-18 17:02

Africa's trade revolution needs peace

CAIRO - The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which came into effect in January, could be a game changer in helping to lift the continent out of poverty and onto the path of long-term prosperity. The AfCFTA has the potential to accelerate and alter the composition of foreign direct investment in Africa, thereby diversifying the continent's sources of growth and bo...

2021-04-18 17:01

A tale of two hegemons

The buzzwords of today's international politics, “the U.S.-China hegemonic competition,” refer to two superpowers that want to either defend or newly obtain the title of hegemon. Hegemons are the ones that build hegemony, and hegemony is a long surviving concept which existed more than 2000 years ago in the days of the Roman and Chinese empires.

2021-04-15 16:48

Crocodiles of Pyongyang

If your mother says she loves you, check it out. That's an old adage in journalism advising reporters to be skeptical. But should you “check it out” if a broker rescuing you from the crocodiles of the North Korean regime warns there are alligators or crocodiles in a river you are about to cross?

2021-04-15 16:44

Athletes knock legs from under global sports governance

Sports governance worldwide has had the legs knocked out from under it. Yet, national and international sports administrators are slow in realizing the magnitude of what has hit them. Tectonic plates underlying sports' guiding principle that sports and politics are unrelated have shifted, driven by a struggle against racism and a quest for human rights and social justice.

2021-04-15 16:34

Philip and queen: love story like no other

The first person I thought when I heard that Prince Philip had died was Elizabeth, a queen in the greater world but only and always a wife to the man who'd been by her side for longer than I've been alive.

2021-04-15 16:32

Emboldened Putin becomes 'president for life'

President Vladimir Putin signed a new law last week that could keep him in power till 2036, potentially alongside China's Xi Jinping. In other words, Russia's foreign policy is becoming dangerously emboldened again.

2021-04-14 17:16

Is war over Taiwan imminent?

Since the beginning of the “freefall” of U.S.-China relations during the global COVID-19 pandemic last year, tension over the Taiwan Strait has been escalating, as attested by the constant military posturing, political signaling and coercive policies of the mainland. As the calls for “unification by force” worsen at an unprecedented pace in mainland China, the concern over th...

2021-04-14 17:05

Promoting mutual prosperity through legislative cooperation with Indonesia

An online seminar between Korea and Indonesia was held on Feb. 5 and March 25 at the Ministry of Government Legislation of the Republic of Korea, with about 60 public officials of the Cabinet Secretariat of the Republic of Indonesia in attendance. It was a seminar where legislative officers of our ministry, who are in charge of statutory examination, shared Korea's legal syst...

2021-04-14 11:01

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