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Tue, September 21, 2021 | 20:48

The West's unspoken failure in Afghanistan

The United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan has captured the world's attention. The chaos, distress, and general sadness of those left behind by America and its allies have drawn significant criticism. It seems inconceivable that 20 years of war, tens of thousands of lives, and $2 trillion were not enough to build a new Afghanistan.

2021-09-16 17:00

Initial Taliban moves fail to convince Afghanistan's neighbors

The Taliban's record in recent weeks of making good on promises to respect human and women's rights, as well as to uphold freedom of the press, is mixed at best.

2021-09-16 16:45

The booming eighties

The 1980s were an exciting time to be in booming Seoul, with Koreans and expat English teachers alike hustling for a better economic life. Everyone was looking forward to the 1988 Summer Olympics, the first professional baseball game was played in the old Dongdaemun Stadium on a cold blustery day in March 1982, and the bane of dictatorship was relegated to the dustbin of hist...

2021-09-15 16:54

Our promise to leave clean air for our children

Here comes a story of our children from past to present. In a national children's art contest in the 1970s, an artwork depicting black polluted water streams painted by a child living by a coal mine was selected for the grand prize. This painting depicted the severe water pollution caused by the waste from the coal mines at that time.

2021-09-14 16:58

Summer ends with nightmarish news

Summer traditionally ends in a most un-august manner, lulling us lazily and newslessly into a faux placidity. Somehow it always ends immediately after Labor Day with the eruption of a back-to-the-grindstone mentality.

2021-09-14 16:57

Chinese style data privacy

China has just passed a major data-privacy law. Inspired by the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, China's Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) comprises a far-reaching set of rules governing how tech companies handle user data.

2021-09-13 17:00

The search for origins is also a search for dignity

What began as a three-month vacation in 2004 eventually evolved into a permanent move. Instead of a birth family search, I came to Korea to see and experience a country that I could feel but never remember.

2021-09-11 09:20

What difference did 9/11 make?

The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were a horrific shock. Images of trapped victims leaping from the Twin Towers are indelible, and the intrusive security measures introduced in the wake of the attacks have long since become a fact of life.

2021-09-09 16:58

Taliban perpetuate Muslim world's failed governance paradigm

The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan perpetuates a paradigm of failed governance in the Muslim world based on a centuries-old alliance between Islamic scholars and the state that, according to scholar Ahmet T Kuru, explains underdevelopment in many Muslim-majority states and authoritarianism in most.

2021-09-09 16:47

COVID-19 minefield trip back to Korea

Returning to Korea from the U.S. this past summer was like navigating a minefield. Were the stars above conspiring to prevent me from coming back? From initially not being able to take the mandatory COVID-19 test to being stranded at the airport with a cancelled flight to being told I wouldn't be able to board a subsequent flight even after finally getting the test and then f...

2021-09-09 16:36

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