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Jason Lim

South Korea as hostage

By Jason Lim Imagine that you are on a highjacked bus. A suicide bomber with a powerful bomb strapped to his body has you in a vice-lock from behind with a knife pointed at your jugular. By the tone of his voice and coiled readiness of his body, you can tell that he is ready to either plunge the knife into your neck or detonate the bomb. Outside, you hear sirens and police yelling at the suicide bomber to surrender peacefully and come out, or else. There are sure to be sharpshooters all around the bus. Now imagine that the suicide bomber is your blood brother. That is roughly...

2013-03-01 17:14

'Cluod you raed this?'

No, I am not suffering from a severe case of dyslexia. I am just trying to make the following point: aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in what order the ltteers in a word are, the only iprmoantnt thing is that the first and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

2013-02-08 16:30

Will China block unification?

Will China block an eventual Korean unification? That was the question explored by the U.S. Senate Republican staff members recently in a report primarily drafted by Keith Luse, a long-time senior aide to the recently retired Senator Richard Lugar and an East Asian expert. And the answer is, ``Yes.”

2013-01-25 17:37

Google's Sunshine Policy?

When the first Barack Obama administration came into power, North Korea launched a long-range rocket, conducted its second nuclear bomb test, and declared the Korean War armistice null and void. When Obama was re-elected for a second term in November, the North launched another long-range rocket and, according to many experts, is likely to conduct a third nuclear test.

2013-01-11 16:56

Moon as puzzled as Romney

It’s ironic that the comments coming out of the Moon Jae-in camp sound a lot like those that came out of the Mitt Romney camp immediately after his loss to Barack Obama, which boils down to, “We thought we had it won because everything we saw, heard, and touched in the days leading up to the election told us we were going to win. We are dumbfounded to have lost.”

2012-12-28 16:53

Outrage @NewYorkPost

Last week, something horrible happened in New York City. A 58-year old Korean man named Han Ki-suk was pushed off a subway platform into the path of an oncoming train. No one helped him as he struggled to climb up to the platform, and he was crushed to death. But a freelance photographer did manage to take a picture of Han’s desperate struggles, which ended up on the front page of the New York Post.

2012-12-14 16:54

Why do men cheat?

The central question that arose out of all the handwringing over the recent Petraeus Affair was why powerful men risk everything that they ever worked for to have an affair.

2012-11-30 17:57

Google, Dokdo, and Princess Bride

Recently, members of Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) held a protest in front of Google’s Mountain View headquarters to express its displeasure over the corporation’s recent decision to refer to Dokdo as the Liancourt Rocks on its global map. This protest follows on the heels of highly publicized ― and highly negative ― coverage in mainstream Korean media of Google’s decision and the possible role that Japan’s government played in the process.

2012-11-16 17:30

Sandy's leadership lesson

For some crazy moment on Monday when “Frankenstorm” Sandy was threatening to tear a hole in our roof and I was sure we would lose power, I remembered a funny cartoon from the summer when a freak “Derecho” storm did rob us of power for two days. It featured a series of text message balloons going back and forth among Facebook, Google, the Internet, and electricity.

2012-11-02 17:41

Forgiving Japan

I remember listening to the Ven. Bomnyeon, a Buddhist monk who is well-known and respected for his off-the-cuff lectures on all issues ranging from North Korea nukes to personal relationships, field a question from a woman who had been brutally raped in the past and wanted desperately to escape from its clutches that continued to haunt her and ruin her life.

2012-10-19 18:03

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