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Thu, January 20, 2022 | 08:13

Unsung victory

Looking back at 2021, I think that one of the most remarkable - but least recognized - achievements that year was the mass evacuation of people from Afghanistan

2022-01-10 16:53

COVID-19 gloom shadows world

As the New Year brings hope and possibility for a global reset and renewal, the tragic reality remains that the COVID-19 virus, with all its deadly variants, continues to plague the planet now fully two years after the malady emerged from Wuhan, China. Thus, despite much justified optimism over wider vaccinations, the pandemic has not broken its deadly grip on societies, econ...

2022-01-10 16:52

Democracy's vital tasks

Liberal democracy is still alive, but showing clear signs of weakness. According to Freedom House, the world has experienced 15 consecutive years of global democratic backsliding.

2022-01-10 16:40

Hair loss presidency

As the South Korean elections get closer, one must make allowances for seemingly outrageous promises by candidates vying for last-minute votes. Even by that standard, the policy position by Lee Jae-Myung, the presidential candidate for the ruling progressive party, to cover hair loss treatment under public health insurance was a bold move that captured lots of attention.

2022-01-09 16:52

Putting ESG into action in 2022

Carbon emissions; renewable energy; and environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) - are three key topics I wrote about back in February 2019. In the same month, I also published a report titled, “What Does the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Mean to Korean Companies?”

2022-01-09 16:36

Calm down: AI isn't magic, just software

It's easy to get caught up in artificial intelligence (AI) hype. We are bombarded with claims that AI is a transformative technology: more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. In other words, AI is the “Superman” of all technologies, doing things no other technology could ever do.

2022-01-06 16:29

2022: The year real drama begins

Despite the diplomatic boycott of next month's Winter Olympics in Beijing, led by the United States under President Joe Biden's administration, China will continue to view its human rights issues as a domestic problem, and U.S.-China relations will not be completely derailed. These bilateral relations, which cannot be simply explained as game theory “power politics,” are much...

2022-01-06 16:28

Break vaccine monopolies now

Last month, the world could have been celebrating the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, vaccine apartheid and restricted production continue to fuel the spread of the coronavirus.

2022-01-06 16:26

Is Kazakhstan Russia's next Ukraine?

With Russian troops massing on Ukraine's borders, it's not only Ukrainians who worry about what President Vladimir Putin may have in store for them. It's Kazakhs too.

2022-01-06 16:23

Facebook's comedy of errors

Translation is a difficult task and that is why professional translators make a living by doing it. Both as an author and translator, I have never seen a writer have their text translated into other languages without it being scrutinized by the person who will do the job. Almost all writers understand that translators can be traitors, as the saying goes.

Park Yoon-bae | 2022-01-06 16:21

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