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Trump scapegoats Korea

President Moon Jae-in met with his counterpart Donald Trump in a two-day summit, to discuss many looming issues including those involving North Korea. The summit was successful and productive for South Korea because Moon’s visit officially ended the political vacuum since the impeachment of former President Park Geun-hye and confirmed the active role of the South Korean gover...

Times Forum | 2017-07-10 18:15

A Christmas story in July

As reported by many, President Moon Jae-in’s first stop in his inaugural visit to the U.S. was to lay a wreath at the memorial to the Battle of Chosin Reservoir at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. His address received good reviews from across the spectrum and seemed to affect people in a deeply meaningful way. But why? Because Moon told this story in three dimensions:...

Times Forum | 2017-07-07 17:29

How to minimize NK threat

Newly elected South Korean President Moon Jae-in visited Washington. The result could have been a tense meeting with President Donald Trump. Moon mixes skepticism of the THAAD anti-missile system with support for dialogue with the North. Since taking office the South Korean leader has tried to minimize perceived differences with America, claiming that his views are consistent...

Times Forum | 2017-07-02 17:58

The June 16 column by Donald Kirk stated that Christine Ahn, the international coordinator of Women Cross DMZ, neglected to say about the initial physical state of Otto Warmbier at the Washington conference. Ahn notified us that she was unaware at the time that Warmbier was comatose. We regret any misunderstanding. - ED.

Times Forum | 2017-06-28 16:56

Breaking the frame

Generally speaking, for decades there have been basically two frames of reference in South Korea - the conservative world view and the progressive world view. There was a certain tribalism mentality in that conservatives or progressives felt the need to subscribe to their “list” of beliefs, or at least defend them from attack by the other side. There were national leaders who...

Times Forum | 2017-06-26 17:30

Twenty years after Asian crisis

April is the cruellest month, so said the poet TS Eliot. But one wit remarked that June marks the end of May. Who would have expected that British Prime Minister Theresa May would lose her majority in Parliament in the June election, which was supposed to strengthen her hand in negotiating Brexit with the European Union? In sharp contrast, unlike earlier in the year when ever...

Times Forum | 2017-06-25 17:22

Secrets of FDI attraction and retention

Last week I attended the 2017 Investment Promotion Agency (IPA) Best Practice Roundtable. The Roundtable was held in Washington, D.C., and was organized by SelectUSA. The participants shared their knowledge or experiences of FDI attraction and retention. At this meeting I explained the role of Korea’s foreign investment ombudsman trying to retain foreign-invested companies by...

Times Forum | 2017-06-19 17:21

Korean War veterans fading away

While they are a hardy lot, time and a plethora of illness and disease is steadily taking down the Korean War Veterans from all countries. It is correct to say they are a “hardy lot,” for injury and sickness from the war have plagued many of them for most of their entire adult lives, yet they have, as the saying goes, “soldiered on.” Canada is one example of both the attritio...

Times Forum | 2017-06-13 17:25

Korea's East Asia options

The wheels are turning so that groundwork for a “pivot to diplomacy” is beginning in East Asia. That is not easy to see right now, as both the U.S. and South Korean administrations fumble for their footing in the rhetoric and policy debates that are so important to each. Those debates are important for East Asia’s direction over the next months and years, because they could d...

Times Forum | 2017-06-04 17:51

Presidential bribery

In impeaching Park Geun-hye and electing Moon Jae-in to the Blue House, Korean citizens have sent a signal to the nation - and to the world - that the era of business-political collusion in Korea is over. No longer will people accept the kind of influence-peddling by politicians towards business leaders that was the norm here for too long. But old habits die hard. In the imme...

Times Forum | 2017-05-29 17:53

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