Time for balance
Thanks to the current inundation of innovative smart devices riding the World Wide Web and technological breakthroughs, we enjoy the social media era based on the Internet where creative and tech-savvy people can succeed overnight with their own killer gadgets or content. But you had better understand or have lawyers to tackle intellectual property rights […]
China-Japan row and Korea
New security order in N-E Asia poses challenge China and Japan are beginning to show two-track tactics toward their latest territorial row over a group of islands in the East China Sea. On the one hand, China is taking a hard-line; a flotilla of 16 Chinese surveillance ships on Tuesday entered Japanese territorial waters off […]
Jobs, jobs, jobs
Which candidate has most detailed, feasible plan? Now that the three major candidates have thrown down their gauntlets, the three-month presidential race has begun. As always, it’s the economy that voters care about most. And the best way to improve the economic situation is to give jobs to those who don’t have them, and better, […]
Religious fervor on display
The populist spiritual yearnings of Koreans can be difficult to fathom. Just as K-Pop has taken off from Tokyo to New York, Korean religious movements draw adherents worldwide over seemingly insurmountable barriers. That was my sense after two days of uniquely elaborately contrived rituals, influenced by Christianity but in Korean settings, that had thousands of […]
Who will be unified opposition candidate?
Korea’s presidential race is now in high gear, as the largest opposition party picked human rights lawyer, Moon Jae-in, 59, as its candidate. Ahn Cheol-soo, 50, founder of anti-virus software company AhnLab, finally declared his bid for the presidency Wednesday as an independent candidate. For the next two months until the registration date on Nov. […]
‘Pieta’
Last Saturday night I went to a movie theater near my house to watch “Pieta,” the winner of the top Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival. It’s a small cinema with fewer than 200 seats. I found a few dozen people in the theater and luckily no one sat beside me ― a […]
Deadlocked Korea-Japan ties
Two countries need dialogue. Japan should look honestly at history to clear the past. After President Lee Myung-bak visited Dokdo, Korea’s easternmost islets, on Aug. 10, Tokyo recalled its ambassador to Korea, Masatoshi Muto, and announced it would take the issue of Dokdo to the International Court of Justice. Japanese media have reported continuously that […]
Multiracial students
Cultural diversity should be accepted broadly Until a decade ago, many Koreans were not familiar with the term “multicultural.’’ And it was not easy to see students from multicultural families in schools. More recently, however, the number of multiracial students has risen rapidly, offering both challenges and opportunities to our society. According to a survey […]
How to become rich by loafing around
After years of research I’ve come to the conclusion that there is a way to become rich without working strenuously; to be born of a rich family holding silver chopsticks. It’s really easy: you don’t have to do anything though your parents had to work strenuously. Sadly we common people know that this is almost […]
Foreign policy mirages
UNITED NATIONS ― The killing of the American Ambassador to Libya John Christopher Stevens, along with three other American diplomats, the storming of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt and the tearing down of the flag replacing the stars and stripes with a black banner, all allegedly in response to an American-produced anti-Islamic video, shows […]
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