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Tue, May 17, 2022 | 13:14

Embracing uncertainty

It's an important time of year for a big question, “What do I want to do with my life?” Think of the many thousands of young people entering the spring recruitment processes held by Korea's biggest corporations. I also consider the students at my own school receiving or awaiting news of offers to go and attend some of the top universities in the world.

2022-03-27 12:19

Prospect of South Korea joining Quad

With the victory of Yoon Suk-yeol in the March 9 presidential election, it is being speculated that South Korea may decide to formally join the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad).

2022-03-24 16:16

Will China's 'common prosperity' survive Putin's war?

Earlier this month, as Russian forces shelled Ukrainian cities and COVID-19 infections soared, Communist Party of China (CPC) leaders gathered for their most important annual political meetings: the National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. While the weighty documents and lengthy speeches that defined both meetings hardly mentioned the...

2022-03-24 16:13

History tells us to take tyrants like Putin seriously

The world seemed surprised when Hitler annexed the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia in 1938. More surprised when he invaded Poland in 1939 and flabbergasted when he marched into the Soviet Union in 1941.

2022-03-24 16:11

Gulf crisis has lessons for Vladimir Putin: Not all may work in his favor

The Ukraine crisis may constitute a more impactful, historic watershed than the 1989 fall of the Berlin wall in the mind of Singapore Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan.

2022-03-24 16:10

Rude wake-up call on energy dependency

We knew it was coming. We planned for it. But then we calmly dozed off again. The rude jolt of the alarm followed the news of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Our second thought followed: what about our energy supplies?

2022-03-23 16:52

Better board for better family business

In Korea, shareholders' meetings at major public companies take place in March. There are frequent governance disputes at many of these companies, which draw keen attention from shareholders, the public and the business media, regardless of the industry.

2022-03-23 16:29

Think twice before sanctioning Russia further

The West has imposed massive financial and economic sanctions on Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine. But are the sanctions supposed to be a way to end the war? Are they a means of punishing Russia for its bad behavior? Or are they simply an expression of moral outrage?

2022-03-22 16:15

Ukraine's international brigade

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's call for volunteers to join his country's newly created International Legion of the Territorial Defense of Ukraine to resist the Russian invasion appears to be modeled on the international brigades formed in the 1930s to fight the fascist forces during the Spanish Civil War.

2022-03-21 16:09

From coal to green hydrogen

The addiction to coal is proving hard to overcome. Over one third of electricity generation and over two thirds of steel production rely on this most efficient - and most polluting - of fossil fuels.

2022-03-21 16:08

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