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Sun, August 18, 2019 | 17:47

No hoopla for Sharon

Sharon’s my boss. Has been for the last five years. In fact, she’s the only boss I’ve known in my current job. And she’s retiring next week. Well, actually, she’s supposed to have retired already a few months ago with the New Year. But her bosses convinced her to stay on for a few more weeks to help with the reorganization effort that our work unit was going through. Help settle the team, so to speak.

2012-05-04 17:27

Jasmine Revolution, Korean style

Korea has come of age, of sorts. Jasmine Lee, a naturalized Korean citizen originally from the Philippines, became the first foreign-born lawmaker. Granted, she didn’t run for a seat herself, but became a member of the National Assembly as a proportional representation candidate when the Saenuri Party won a majority in the recent parliamentary elections.

2012-04-20 17:13

Jewish way to raise a genius

Growing up in Korea, I remember a book that my mother used to read religiously. It was a thick tome called, ``The Jewish Way to Raise a Genius.”

2012-04-06 17:14

Sub-human rights in N. Korea

When I was in high school, we had Amnesty International campaigns that the students were involved in to free Soviet political prisoners who were suffering in a gulag in the frozen tundra of Siberia.

2012-03-23 17:02

Korea‘s Youth Hope Plan

According to the New York Times, many people, as young as 20 years old, won municipal seats in the recently concluded Russian general election. Originally inspired to politics through their opposition to Vladimir Putin but not satisfied with street protests alone, these young people actually entered into the fray and, lo and behold, won.

2012-03-09 17:30

Theory of Relative Insanity

He might have thought himself as a theoretical physicist, but Einstein was actually an accidental Buddhist. His famous definition of insanity as ``doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” is actually the most succinct yet best definition of Karma that I have come across.

2012-02-24 17:21

I was raised in the Bronx and went to college at Duke, which means that the past week has been a really good sports week for me.

2012-02-10 17:20

What about average Koreans?

In his recent New York Times column titled, ``Average Is Over,” Thomas Friedman of ``The World is Flat” fame declares the age of the average to be officially over.

2012-01-27 16:59

My dad’s unification

My Dad was born and raised in Pyongyang before he escaped south, along with millions of other North Koreans, as the U.N. forces retreated in the winter of 1950 under the onslaught of the Chinese “volunteer” army.

2012-01-13 17:24

‘The Kim is dead. Long live the Kim’

``The King is dead. Long live the King.” This is what they used to shout in Europe in the Middle Ages when proclaiming the passing of the old monarch and the elevation of a new one.

2011-12-30 16:51

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