KoreaTimes(164) - Columns, Opinion, page 5

Entertainment
& Arts

Sports

Beijing Olympics

World

SCMP
Asia

Video

Photos

Site Map E-paper Subscribe Register LogIn
Site Map E-paper Subscribe Register LogIn

Opinion

Columns

Thu, January 20, 2022 | 07:14

Investing in 2022

As the world excitedly anticipates the return to everyday life for the New Year, financial markets, on the other hand, are facing an uncertain outlook. Since the pandemic outbreak almost two years ago, most investment assets have benefited from globally coordinated stimulus on both the monetary and fiscal fronts. It stands to reason that as the world returns to normal, this s...

2022-01-02 14:43

Key to COVID-powered challenges of 2022

After a year in which people longed to get back to “normal,” it is now clear that COVID-19 will not make this possible. The pandemic, now heading into its third year, has profoundly affected individuals, communities, countries, and international cooperation, creating four tough challenges for 2022. Rebuilding trust will be critical to confronting all of them.

2022-01-02 14:40

2022: Year of living dangerously

Predictions are galore as to how the New Year of the Tiger will unfold. Uncertain, turbulent and contested are popular adjectives describing the world before us where worries overshadow hopes. The main sources of such apprehensions are systemic, structural and deep-rooted, while others are transitional or cyclical.

2021-12-30 17:05

England versus the pandemic

LONDON - The Brits just don't get the idea. Even as COVID cases proliferate, you still see lots of people here not wearing face masks. Bars and restaurants remain open while Prime Minister Boris Johnson hems and haws on whether to tighten constraints. Meanwhile, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, adopting their own rules, have banned social gatherings and public events, ma...

2021-12-30 17:00

8mm memories in digital age

In an interview promoting his new movie “Being the Ricardos,” about the beloved sitcom “I Love Lucy,” writer-director Aaron Sorkin referred to Lucy's “Friday audience taping.” I suppose even a media maven like Sorkin should be forgiven for bollixing terminology about motion pictures. We all do it.

2021-12-30 16:40

'Coffee isn't …'

About four years ago, in one of my early columns for The Korea Times, I wrote about Korea's modern coffee culture. My column was titled, “Coffee is …” Mr. Kim, the proprietor, spent years in corporate food and beverage service. In the autumn of 2015, he decided to launch his private enterprise.

2021-12-30 16:35

Escape to the slopes

Once I took up skiing in South Korea, it made being here in winter so much better. I went from enduring cold winters to anticipating ski season. I often wondered why more ESL teachers didn't ski, especially since it used to be very good value when I started in 1983. They didn't know what they were missing.

2021-12-30 16:30

Looking ahead at 2022

The political reverberations following America's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan still shake the geopolitical landscape, from Ukraine to the Taiwan Strait. But shall military calculations in Moscow and Beijing take advantage of a perceived power vacuum in the wake of the Afghan fiasco or will diplomacy deflect the sword of aggression?

2021-12-29 17:00

Reflecting on 30th anniversary of Soviet Union's fall

On Dec. 8, 1991, Boris Yeltsin, then the president of the Russian Soviet Republic, announced the conclusion of the Belovezh Accords with the presidents of the Ukrainian and Belarus Soviet Republics, declaring the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

2021-12-29 16:43

For professors and in memoriam

I'm writing about the professor in Korean culture and to thank my professors. The “kyosunim” is a central Korean institution. The respect for professors is higher in Confucian cultures, including Korea, than elsewhere. Too many Americans think professors occupy the ivory tower. Aligning the learned with the leadership in Asian cultures is closer than in European cultures.

2021-12-28 16:49

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

CEO & Publisher : Oh Young-jin
Digital News Email : webmaster@koreatimes.co.kr
Tel : 02-724-2114
Online newspaper registration No : 서울,아52844
Date of registration : 2020.02.05
Masthead : The Korea Times
Copyright © koreatimes.co.kr. All rights reserved.