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Thu, December 9, 2021 | 12:46

Can Biden make world safer for democracy?

U.S. President Joe Biden has made “revitalizing democracy the world over” a key goal of his administration, but it has taken almost a year since his inauguration to fulfil the central pledge of holding a summit of democracies which takes place on Thursday and Friday.

2021-12-08 16:53

Women in politics

With less than a hundred days remaining until the next presidential election, the two major political parties are in a race to recruit top talent to their campaigns. For the two major parties trying to appeal to undecided voters, a key theme is diversity. A political party tries to signal how different it is to its former self by recruiting someone who is cut from a very diff...

2021-12-08 16:44

The connectivity war

Many observers have long assumed that the future of geopolitics will be decided in a sea battle over the Taiwan Strait or some rocky outcropping or atoll in the South China Sea. Yet we could probably learn more by examining the treatment of a few thousand desperate refugees in the twenty-first century's geopolitical backwaters.

2021-12-08 16:24

South Korea should play larger role in ending pandemic

As we approach the end of the second year of the pandemic, the world faces renewed uncertainty from the Omicron variant of COVID-19. However, now that South Korea has fully vaccinated 80 percent of its population against the coronavirus there is an opportunity for it to play a larger role in ending the pandemic.

2021-12-07 17:02

Omicron: the last variant to fear?

In the 16th century, the French writer Michel de Montaigne wrote: “the thing of which I have most fear is fear”; which has been interpreted as “The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents.”

2021-12-07 16:41

A guy never forgets his first car

The other day, Otis, the used car dealer, pulled out a wad of bills and handed my son two crisp C-notes. That's all Danny's '98 Pontiac Grand-Am was worth anymore, but the rite of passage it had provided was invaluable.

2021-12-07 16:22

Reflections on inter-Korean peace

Recently, conservatives and some opposition parties have been criticizing the results of the Moon Jae-in administration's foreign and security policy as well as its policy on North Korea for being insufficient. To some extent, the government's efforts are being devalued as a “peace show” or a “chant for peace.” I would like to look back on the past year and suggest what kind ...

2021-12-06 16:58

Taliban war booty exceeds most countries military spending

When the Taliban forces overran Afghanistan a few months ago, not only did they capture a country continuously in conflict since the initial Soviet invasion in 1979, but they equally seized huge stockpiles of American supplied weapons provided to the defeated Afghan military. The unexplained and reckless U.S. pullout from the strategic Bagram Airbase, a lynchpin of allied ope...

2021-12-06 16:58

What has happened to Korean family?

I had a chance to reflect on what it was that drew me to Korean studies when I was interviewed for an EBS (Educational Broadcasting Service) program about four years ago. The interviewer, Jeong Gwan-yong, asked me how I came to study Korea. I told him there were two factors primarily, at the outset: the Korean emphasis on the family and the striving for excellence in educatio...

2021-12-05 15:05

Korean labor market in rapid transition

Last month U.S. President Joe Biden got a much-needed win with the House of Representatives passing the $1.75 trillion stimulus package for social safety net and climate change initiatives. The bill now moves to the U.S. Senate, which could be the biggest challenge for President Biden battling a plummeting approvals rating after less than a year in office. The Build Back Bett...

2021-12-05 14:59

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