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Wed, May 22, 2019 | 07:12

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American soft power in the age of Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has shown little interest in public diplomacy. And yet public diplomacy - a government's efforts to communicate directly with other countries' publics - is one of the key instruments policymakers use to generate soft power, and the current information revolution makes such instruments more important than ever.

Guest Column | 2019-05-08 17:25

Facebook has right to ban extreme voices, but with care

The first thing to be said about Facebook's decision to ban Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and a handful of other controversial figures is that the company is entirely within its rights to decide who will appear on its site. It is also under pressure from governments around the world to silence users (and bots) who encourage violence or lie to the public.

Guest Column | 2019-05-08 17:21

Variables for denuclearization

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is waiting for the Trump administration to change its position and accept his offer of a phased denuclearization. However, there is no indication that Washington is considering backing down on its demand for an early, comprehensive denuclearization that caused the breakdown of the Hanoi summit in late February.

Tong Kim | 2019-05-07 17:43

Moon over the economy

The Democratic Party of Korea has had a fixation on rapprochement with North Korea for decades now. The famous (and somewhat tarnished) legacy of the Sunshine Policy in 1998 by then President Kim Dae-jung (the political mentor of current President Moon Jae-in) was ultimately unsuccessful.

Deauwand Myers | 2019-05-07 17:41

Road to war with China

Over the past two years, American foreign-policy elites have increasingly cast China not only as a competitor to the United States, but as an enemy on a par with the Soviet Union. Although anti-Chinese rhetoric in the U.S. is not new, President Donald Trump's administration has greatly sharpened and amplified it. This is despite the deep economic ties between the two countrie...

Guest Column | 2019-05-07 17:32

Measles is back and we only have ourselves to blame

The United States shut the door on measles, one of the most contagious diseases known to humans, in 2000 _ declaring it to have been “eliminated,” for all intents and purposes. Success in fighting the disease at home and abroad has meant that countless children have been spared suffering, injury and death.

Guest Column | 2019-05-07 17:28

Korean refreshments

I've devoted several columns to different types of Korean drinks, including alcoholic drinks and types of tea. I'd like to write this time about nonalcoholic drinks, including juices and types of pop. This isn't a health foods column. I'm writing for foreigners to appreciate how to get a quick, refreshing drink. I enjoy the unusual kinds of drinks in Korea.

Bernard Rowan | 2019-05-06 17:23

Trouble with Argentina's economy

In 2018, Argentina experienced a currency crisis and stagflation. Annual inflation reached 47.6 percent, GDP fell by 2.5 percent, and unemployment and poverty increased. These indicators reflect chronic problems. Argentina's economy has shrunk in four out of the past seven years. And, for more than a decade, structural deficiencies have created tight constraints on the growth...

Guest Column | 2019-05-06 17:13

Can memory improvement be just a zap away?

You stride purposefully into the living room and then ... your mind goes blank. You can't remember what you planned to do. Or you memorize a short grocery list. But when you arrive at the supermarket all you can recall is yogurt. What else were you supposed to buy?

Guest Column | 2019-05-06 17:08

15,000-year-old rice

In a lecture on Korean history for foreign CEOs in 2011, I showed a photo of a few samples of the earliest cultivated rice grains which were discovered in 1998 at Soro-ri, a small village in central Korea. Common sense had it then, and still in 2019, that rice farming moved from China to Korea and Japan.

Kim Ji-myung | 2019-05-05 17:44

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