Common Sense Approach to Conflicts in East Asia
Joint Project between the Northeast Asian History Foundation and The AsiaN *Editor’s Note: Security in East Asia is swaying in a rough sea. North Korea’s nuclear crisis has been highly elated amid existing territorial disputes and deep-rooted conflicts between nations in the region. South Korea, China and Japan, the countries directly involved, are all looking […]
Park’s candid remarks feared to irritate NK leadership
Soon after North Korea’s third nuclear test, Ms. Park Geun-hye, president-elect of South Korea, met current President Lee Myung-bak. As one should expect, South Korea’s future leader found harsh words for the North Korean government and its nuclear brinkmanship. Among other things, the president-elect remarked that, ‘One should know that the Soviet Union collapsed not […]
What do journalists really do?
LOS ANGELES ― It’s uncertain whether Asia will come to entertain many Western journalists that tried harder to understand their region, their ways and their history than Barry Wain. The other day the former editor of the once Hong Kong-based Asian Wall Street Journal (also deceased) died at 69, but left behind a legacy of […]
Press Freedom in Digital Era – Promises & Perils
*Editor’s Note: Ivan Lim, President of Asia Journalist Association, gave keynote speech at the 13th ICT Conference in Kathmandu, Nepal on February 9. The conference was hosted by the Computer Association of Nepal and the Internet Society of Nepal in an attempt to promote “E-democracy in Nepal.” Participants include experts from Nepali parliaments, government, national and international NGO’s, and […]
Why Nuclear Test Now?
*Editor’s note: North Korea’s third nuclear test must pose the first challenge for the Obama administration’s second term foreign policy. Not to mention the newly elected leadership of South Korea, China and Japan. Foreign policy expert Andrew Natsios, an executive professor at the George H.W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M […]
Azzam’s Paintings Reveal Syrian Horrors
Tammam Azzam uses iconic paintings to depict the Syrian revolution Ever since the Syrian revolution started in March 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Commission counted over 60,000 people has been killed so far. The photographers also made a record of these events with their powerful photographs, it’s used as a reference to the violence […]
Park Geun-hye gov’t asked to prepare for welfare policy of unified Korea
The election of Park Geun-hye as the new President of the ROK has attracted much attention internationally. Some observers have emphasised the fact that she is the first woman to become the leader of South Korea, while others prefer to dwell on her being the daughter of former South Korean strongman, Park Chung-hee. It seems […]
Overeducated, Underemployed
South Koreans are second to none in their passion for education. They attach great importance to this, especially for their children. Education has been the driving force behind what Korea is today. In fact, most Koreans managed to get out of poverty through education in the 1960s and 1970s. There is no doubt that the […]
Park the Peacemaker
It was 99 years ago when Europe, at the height of its prosperity and global influence, suddenly plunged into a calamitous conflict. There were many reasons for the outbreak of World War I, although the main cause was that the rise of Germany posed a challenge to the traditional European powers of Great Britain, France […]
O-hyun, a great Korean monk, depicts his enlightment through his poems
We were eager to meet the great Korean monk in his reception room, when he entered with a bald head, and a bold smile. Shaking hand with him gave me a touch of the human aspect in Mr. Cho O-hyun, but listening to him added the divine side of that far-off saint. The wise man […]
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