US silence on North Korea
With a record $6 billion in campaign money spent, the most expensive election in history has now come and gone. But throughout their respective campaigns, both President Obama and Governor Romney were disturbingly silent about one of the most urgent humanitarian and security emergencies the United States and the world faces today: North Korea. While […]
Dignity of first family
Despite new probe, many questions remain unanswered After a month-long investigation, special prosecutor Lee Kwang-bum announced Wednesday that his team will refer President Lee Myung-bak’s only son, Si-hyung, to the tax authorities for possible imposition of gift tax over a controversial project to build Lee’s retirement home. The junior Lee, however, was cleared of suspicion […]
Polish organist enchants Arabic audience with the only organ in Arabian peninsula
Tonight, as we leave Al-Maidan Cultural Centre, of Dar Al-Athar Al-Islamyya, after attending one of its 18th Cultural Season musical events, we felt we are touching the sky of creation. The Polish musician maestro Valentina M.Baginska, and her son Karol Kusmider helped the audience to get acquainted with the only organ in the Arabian peninsula. […]
America’s divided dynamism
UNITED NATIONS ― America appears to have crossed the political Rubicon. On the one shore, that of the red states, people are rooted in more traditional values, religion, individualism and entrepreneurialism. On the blue shore, people embrace different often trendier values, cherish political correctness and secularism, often do favor entrepreneurialism, but view an activist government […]
Qualifications of educators
Many, many years ago when I was in undergrad school, my classmates and I would often talk about how the real learning would begin once we graduated and obtained our pieces of paper. We knew that in university we were being taught ideals more than anything else. These ideals did not match up with reality […]
47, 47 and most important 47!
Whatever the actual outcome of the U.S. presidential election, we hear the magic numbers over and over again. The polls are abundant with close figures and even closer interpretations. It is one of the understandings of the unique country called the United States of America that words and actions can be called free speech and […]
K-pop; pre- and post-Psy
The scene: 8:59 a.m. in the headquarters of “Cool Corea” a music corporation set in darkest Gangnam. In a recording studio sits a spotty youth in torn jeans and a leather jacket, tuning an electric guitar. The door opens. In struts a smart, be-suited gent. Gent: Are you Kool Kim? Congratulations on making it through […]
Pros, cons on voting-hour extension
Presidential candidates sparring over the potential extension of voting hours certainly makes for a great headline. We all care about our basic rights, improving access to the polls and strengthening the electoral power of our social groups and communities, right? Of course we do. But it’s also hard to deny that the debate about voting […]
Obama’s reelection and priorities
WASHINGTON ― Many nations around the world are wondering what Barack Obama’s reelection means to them. Obama won a second term by a narrow 2-percent margin of the popular vote, but with an overwhelming victory of 303 to 206 in the Electoral College, over Republican opponent Mitt Romney. President Obama received almost 7 million votes […]
Will governments agree to kill tobacco farming?
Tobacco farmers around the world will turn their attention to Seoul this week when officials representing more than 170 governments meet to decide their future. The occasion is the World Health Organization’s biennial gathering to amend its Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. This will be the fifth such session since the FCTC went into force […]
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