Power shift to Asia: no need to panic
On Feb. 15, just as Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping arrived in the United States for a four-day visit, U.S. President Barack Obama told an audience of American workers in Milwaukee: “Manufacturing is coming back!” Coming back from China, that is. But while the Master Lock Company of Milwaukee has indeed moved some jobs back to […]
De-caffeinated courtships
Arguably the most pressing long-term issue confronting millennial Korea is its declining birth rate. According to reports, South Korea today has the fastest aging population on earth. This trend has ominous ramifications. Higher taxes will be required from a dwindling workforce to support an expanding populace of doddering droolers. Insurers and pension providers will go […]
To the youth on the eve of the graduation
Some people understand one out of ten while others understand ten out of one. Hajin definitely belongs to the latter group. I first met him when I just started teaching Japanese at one of the universities in Cheonan. So, I met him more than 10 years ago. I always remember him as the positive and […]
Time to value virtues of moderation, frugality
Editorial: South Korea had long been a Confucian society that respected family values. People attached great importance to four major ceremonies ― coming of age, wedding, funeral and ancestral rites. It was common to observe such occasions in a moderate and frugal way not only because Koreans were poor but because they opted for a […]
Seoul needs to pursue diplomatic balance
Editorial: South Korea paid much attention to Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington just as other countries did since Sino-U.S. ties are a key factor in ensuring peace, stability and prosperity in East Asia as well as across the globe. Xi won an extraordinary welcome from U.S. leaders this week. He deserved it […]
Pak-Afghan resolve to work for stability and peace in region
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai have emphasized the need for the two countries to sit together at this critical juncture and avoid being distracted by momentary events. The understanding came during one and one and delegation level talks between the two leaders in Islamabad on Thursday afternoon. They agreed […]
Climate change: a reality for Pakistan
The climate change is no more a myth as scientific evidences as well as occurrence of frequent floods, cyclones and droughts around the world have proved beyond doubt that it is real. The fluctuations that occur from year to year, and the statistics of extreme conditions such as severe storms or unusually hot seasons, are […]
The Arab Spring Elections: The Season for All Islamists!
At 15:09 Cairo local time, on 12 October 1992, with an epiccenter near the small city of Dahshur, 35km south of the Egyptian capital, with a magnitude of 5.8, but was unusually destructive for its size, came the devilish earthquake causing 545 deaths, injuring 6512 and making 50,000 people homeless. It was the most damaging event to […]
Asia’s economic power-houses eye Arctic el dorado
Asia’s economic power-houses eye Arctic el dorado With global warming bringing nearer the likelihood of opening up sea lanes and spurring exploitation of vast natural resource across the Arctic, an exciting political chess game is unfolding in the ice-melting polar region where China, Japan and South Koreas as well as Singapore are angling to make […]
A Year after the Egyptian Revolution
After the results of the Egyptian elections, that have been arranged and articulated for the sake of long deprived Islamists in Egypt, it seems to me that today’s Egypt Delta in its map has turned into a black triangle represents the beard, while the 7000 years old River Nile valley should look like a black […]
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