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Mon, June 1, 2020 | 07:59

Bae Eun-joo

The world has surpassed another grim milestone as over 4.9 million confirmed COVID-19 infections and over 320,000 deaths have been reported. The novel coronavirus outbreak has taken an enormous toll on the global economy, forcing countless number of businesses to collapse and sending jobless rates to record-highs worldwide

Bae Eun-joo | 2020-05-20 18:50

Thinking beyond punishment to combat digital sex crimes

Thinking beyond punishment to combat digital sex crimes

In the wake of the chilling “Nth room” case, the South Korean government recently announced an inter-agency plan to “eradicate digital sex crimes.” This response is a testament to the women's rights activists who have fought for years to make officials take digital sex crimes seriously.

2020-05-20 17:55

Learning to live with corona hair

Learning to live with corona hair

It's high time Americans accept a first-world side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, and I don't mean those blasted directional floor stickers I can't navigate in the aisles at Walmart. No, I'm referring to male-pattern corona hair.

2020-05-20 17:47

Unspoken reason for lockdowns

Unspoken reason for lockdowns

The COVID-19 pandemic is the first major global crisis in human history to be treated as a mathematical problem, with governments regarding policy as the solution to a set of differential equations.

2020-05-20 17:44

Coronavirus lessons

Coronavirus lessons

It's time to draw lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. No, it's not over. Yes, a resurgence may occur. Different situations obtain in different places. However, I think it's none too soon to sketch a few hazarded guesses about what we've learned or should learn from this experience. Some of the lessons draw from South Korea's path of progress in beating back this viral menace.

2020-05-19 17:20

Choi Sung-jin

Could Moon Jae-in become Korea's FDR?

COVID-19 is far from over. Nobody knows when it will end. Some even say there will be no end to the ongoing pandemic, and the world should learn to live with it.

2020-05-19 17:15

Killer corruption

Killer corruption

COVID-19 is a ticking time bomb in Africa. Some of the risks are widely documented. Health-care systems are weak and overburdened, with 10 African countries reportedly having no ventilators at all.

2020-05-19 17:14

Drive-in theaters poised to profit from pandemic

Drive-in theaters poised to profit from pandemic

Here's one COVID-19 silver lining: The drive-in theater, a uniquely American creation, is doing booming business again.I've long been nostalgic for this wonderful piece of Americana. When I was growing up in the '70s, my mother and father often packed my five sisters and I into our massive station wagon to see outdoor movies.

2020-05-19 17:10

Tong Kim

US-China Cold War

Perhaps Sino-American relations are at their lowest since Nixon's opening of China in 1972. The bitter recriminations on the handling of the coronavirus between Washington and Beijing, with neither party backing down as it aggravates the deterioration of their relations, are raising the specter of a new Cold War. This danger comes at the wrong time and for the wrong reason.

2020-05-18 16:58

Will AI drive out human jobs?

Will AI drive out human jobs?

The First Industrial Revolution began in the U.K. and spread to Europe and the U.S. during the period 1760s to 1840s. Every industrial revolution is identified by revolutionary innovations in industrial technology. During the first revolution, hand production methods were replaced by machine tools.

2020-05-18 16:55

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