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Lee Hee-ho: Woman stood for Kim Dae-jung
In 1958, when she returned to Korea after four years of study in the United States, Lee Hee-ho pledged not to marry. Women today may be able to relate to her decision, but back then it was a tough choice. Koreans were poor and their politics and culture were male-centric and authoritarian. A woman over 26 and still single was already written off as an “old maid.” That she intended to endure a lifetime of such judgment says something about her devotion to her work to benefit society and the standard she had held for any man who would come into her life.
2019-06-12 10:35
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Kim Jong-un: May we dare to hope?
Reaction in South Korea, and indeed across the world, to the first summit between the leaders of the United States and North Korea has, as you would expect in this age of social media, been loud and mixed. But if you cut away opinion, which is set alight by reluctance to credit the players - North Korea's Kim Jong-un, U.S. President Donald Trump and, here in South Korea, President Moon Jae-in - and if you discount the impatient expectation of some kind of Versailles-peace-treaty-in-a-day - there is a common thread to the reaction.
2018-06-13 13:46
Hopes for peace in Korea never higher
Hopes for a permanent peace on the Korean Peninsula have never been higher than they are today. But that doesn't mean, as some seem to think, that it already happened last Friday when North Korea's Kim Jong-un stepped dramatically into South Korea. Yes, it's going to be hard work, many say, but let's not be negative and dwell on that too much.
2018-05-02 17:10
RoundtableMoon rises as the stars align over Koreas
As he approaches the second year of his term in office _ normally the moment in Korea's “imperial presidency” system when the traditional resentment against leadership is unleashed and approval ratings begin the inexorable lurch south _ the stars are strangely aligning for President Moon Jae-in.
2018-04-15 15:43
  • RoundtableKim Jong-un's point of view on cross-border summit
Why are we paying for North Korea?
Now that North Korea has decided to send some athletes and artists here for next month's Winter Olympics, two questions occur: Why is South Korea paying North Korea's costs? And, second, does this payment violate the United Nations' international sanctions on North Korea?
2018-01-23 17:04
Underlying conflict
With little North Korea - its population is less than that of greater Seoul - unlikely to give up nuclear weapons, it seems this issue will only be resolved when the two Koreas address the underlying conflict that drives them to arm themselves in the first place. Here is the issue. Unlike all other neighboring states today, the two Koreas claim sovereignty over one another. And even though the South has become an advanced economy and a modern democracy, and even though the North stumbles along as a weak, backward dictatorship, neither has taken a single step to alter that posture.
2017-11-06 16:40
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  • RoundtableDoes Trump's destiny clash with Korea's? It does
Politics of vulgarity
For the last year, Donald J. Trump has been the most-talked-about person in the world. From the dinner tables of Reykjavik to the student canteens in Auckland, we’re all doing it. Every day, there is new fodder, provided by Trump’s own tweets, by videos of him giving funny looks and by the main newspapers in America, which have lost their pretense of serving as neutral watchdogs and now function as the machinery of opposition. I imagine - because I don’t know, really - the conversations have run the gamut from “What has gotten into these American voters?” to “He’s going to start World War Th...
2017-07-24 17:12
Peace treaty with North Korea
President Moon Jae-in’s historic call last week for a peace treaty to replace the 1953 ceasefire and finally end the Korean War seems to be the most sensible way out of the escalating confrontation with North Korea over its nuclear weapons. But such a course of action is fraught with complications. That is because the rivalry between the two Koreas is by its very nature a war without end. A peace treaty will be a ceasefire by another name. That does not mean it should not be pursued. But if South Korea and its allies fail to take this underlying reality into account, they may, in pursuing pe...
2017-07-10 18:18
Manifest destiny Korean style
Every country, it seems, likes to give the impression that it is going somewhere. All publish economic statistics and aim for growth. But the fact remains that some are more purposeful, more driven, than others. Korea is one.
2017-06-27 17:27
  • Koreans are constantly evolving breed
Should we say no to a unified team?
President Moon’s proposal that North and South Korea field a joint team at the Winter Olympics next year raises a question: would it be okay to use the occasion to protest against North Korea? What I have in mind is a few tents in Gangwon Province. Such occupy Wall Street-type temporary homes have been all the rage in Seoul for a few years now and would get a lot of media attention if set up at the right strategic spots.
2017-06-26 17:35
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