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Sun, June 4, 2023 | 00:01

Park Jung-won

Need for common ground in diplomacy, national security

At the core of President Yoon Suk Yeol's diplomatic strategy is a shift away from strategic ambiguity toward values-based diplomacy. This is an inevitable choice imposed on South Korea by the current security environment defined by the new Sino-American Cold War and the worsening nuclear threat of North Korea. A dual structure of trilateral alliances between South Korea, the ...

2023-06-01 16:50

. Donald Kirk

North Korea's worsening story

We're accustomed to two basic stories from North Korea. First is the North's nuclear and missile programs. Kim Jong-un is forever ordering missile tests, and he may also be considering the North's seventh nuclear test - which would be its first since September 2017.

2023-06-01 16:50

. Steven L. Shields

Peace: Bad for business

I grew up during the Vietnam War. I was safely tucked away in the mountains of the western United States, but the specter of war was ever-present. Neighbors and friends were being drafted to go to that faraway place to fight a war that few people supported. Family members in the U.S. military were deployed to the war.

2023-06-01 16:48

Air pollution in South Korea: a long way to go

Air pollution in South Korea: a long way to go

South Korea's air quality is notoriously bad at certain times of the year, specifically winter and spring when citizens often have no choice but to deal as best they can with the bad air and its subsequent health implications.

2023-06-01 16:20

Time to ease tensions

Time to ease tensions

There are no signs yet of efforts in the Yoon Suk Yeol administration to de-escalate rising tensions with North Korea despite the northern neighbor's escalation in provocations, including an expansion of its nuclear capabilities.

Kang Seung-woo | 2023-05-31 16:53

Peter S. Kim

Dark mystery behind 'jeonse'

The Korean stock market is still reeling from the pyramid scheme using contracts for difference (CFD), which was used to ramp up stocks over many years until everything collapsed within days. The Korean prosecutors arrested the alleged mastermind Ra Deok-yeon, head of an unregistered investment consulting firm, and his associate.

2023-05-31 16:30

How much work is enough?

How much work is enough?

The COVID-19 pandemic might be officially over, but much like a railway switchyard, it has already diverted countless lives onto wildly different paths. Millions of individuals will never revert to their pre-pandemic work routines, compelling both employers and employees to establish new models that cater to their evolving needs. But amid the ongoing experiments with hybrid m...

2023-05-31 16:20

AI and future of South Korea

AI and future of South Korea

The release of ChatGPT last November kicked off a race for artificial intelligence (AI) supremacy among global tech giants. The importance of this race is not lost on the world's great powers, which increasingly put tech supremacy at the center of national industrial policies. The question on the minds of many is which state or company may reign supreme in the end.

2023-05-30 16:51

aespa: shaping new wave of K-pop and shattering global records

aespa: shaping new wave of K-pop and shattering global records

Korean girl group aespa is rewriting the rules of K-pop. With their third EP “My World” smashing records, an invitation to the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, and a groundbreaking world tour, this sensational quartet is not just taking the music scene by storm but also revolutionizing the way we perceive K-pop. Read on to explore their meteoric rise to fame, and how they're...

2023-05-30 16:30

Creeping toward dystopia

Creeping toward dystopia

With investors pouring billions of dollars into artificial intelligence-related startups, the generative AI frenzy is beginning to look like a speculative bubble akin to the Dutch tulip mania of the 1630s and the South Sea Bubble of the early eighteenth century. And, much like those episodes, the AI boom appears headed for an inevitable bust. Instead of creating new assets, i...

2023-05-30 16:15

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