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'The Chairman is a Gangster'

With hallyu likely to continue wowing global markets in 2013 I am furiously working on a Korea-set feature film script.

Andrew Salmon | 2013-02-04 17:16

Samsung comes of age

You don’t have to hang around Samsung Electronics for long before the word ``innovation” is mentioned. Samsung people love to use it; I am not sure you can even have a chinwag with them without the ``i” word cropping up.

Andrew Salmon | 2013-01-21 17:24

Korea vs. aging

Last year, I and several colleagues from the foreign correspondents’ community interviewed President Lee Myung-bak. A color photograph of the tableau ― the serious-looking president surrounded by several busily scribbling overseas reporters ― duly appeared in a vernacular daily.

Andrew Salmon | 2013-01-07 17:10

Desolation of the left

Talk about a wipe-out. For Korea’s left wing, 2012 has been an annus horriblis: Less a series of defeats, more one long, bloody massacre.

Andrew Salmon | 2012-12-24 17:08

Candidates, don't bore us!

As she may be our next president, it is germane to now ask: Has Park Geun-hye had charisma-bypass surgery?

Andrew Salmon | 2012-12-10 17:17

'Brewing democratization'

A Korea-related article in The Economist is currently sending sparks of excitement fizzing and crackling across the nation.

Andrew Salmon | 2012-11-26 17:07

K-pop; pre- and post-Psy

The scene: 8:59 a.m. in the headquarters of “Cool Corea” a music corporation set in darkest Gangnam. In a recording studio sits a spotty youth in torn jeans and a leather jacket, tuning an electric guitar. The door opens. In struts a smart, be-suited gent.

Andrew Salmon | 2012-11-12 17:21

Korea branders' problems

By Andrew SalmonYou’d think they could get the date right. In October, a Korean ad appeared on a billboard in New York’s Times Square. Its copy suggested that Japan should make a “heartfelt” apology to the “comfort women.” Its graphic showed then-West German Chancellor Willi Brandt kneeling before the monument to the Warsaw Ghetto.I don’t have an issue with the general idea. I agree that a high-profile Japanese individual (the emperor?) should benchmark Brandt and take a knee before Koreans. This should be done not because Japanese have refused to ap...

Andrew Salmon | 2012-10-29 17:15

Presidential candidates: Are you mad?

So the candidates are declared. Park Geun-hye, Moon Jae-in and Ahn Cheol-soo are running for Korea’s top office. All eyes are on Dec. 19; the games have begun.

Andrew Salmon | 2012-10-15 17:05

The lure of ‘horrible history’

A friend of mine based in Bukchon, the pretty neighborhood in Seoul noted for its hanok, or traditional cottages, recently told me she was considering instituting a walking tour of the area for foreigners.

Andrew Salmon | 2012-09-17 17:29

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