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Fri, December 6, 2019 | 16:55

Jason Lim

Beware of youth in the Blue House

Peggy Noonan, President Ronald Reagan’s former speechwriter and currently a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, recently wrote how the youth has outlived its usefulness in the Obama White House. She believes that Americans actually miss seeing an old and august presence when they look at Obama’s White House, staffed with relatively young people as key advisers. In fact, the New York Times recently profiled Denis McDonough, the 40-year old National Security Council’s chief of staff, as the most influential foreign policy voice in the White House.

2010-08-16 17:47

Rep. Kim’s English lessons

With all the hoopla surrounding the emergence of second-generation Korean- American leaders in diverse fields spanning politics, entertainment, social activism, finance, business and more, it’s easy to overlook that former Congressman Jay Kim, an unassuming Korean man in his 70s, had already achieved something more than 10 years ago entitling him the most historically significant Korean American around.

2010-08-02 17:45

Murder of Vietnamese wife

On July 8, only eight days after arriving in Korea, a 20-year old Vietnamese woman was murdered by her 47-year-old Korean husband who told the investigators that voices told him to kill his new bride. By all accounts, no one involved in this tragically short-lived marriage ― from the marriage broker to the bride’s family ― knew that the husband had a history of mental illness.

2010-07-19 17:19

Globalization From Inside Out

For all their dysfunctional partisanship, Korean politicians agree on one thing: they all love to speak about how Korea will successfully compete in a globalized world by leveraging its power as the foremost leader in technology.

2009-07-20 17:38

Violence Against Women

In Korea's history, there were times when the body of an already-dead person would be dug up and decapitated. This was an official punishment that was reserved for persons who were convicted post-mortem of high treason or truly despicable moral corruption.

2009-07-06 17:47

Teachers Running Rampant

``Unfit, Foulmouthed, Drunken English Teachers Running Rampant." This is how Korea Beat, a self-styled English-language Korean news blog, translated the headline for a Yonhap News story on June 11 about problems with native English-speaking teachers in Korea. A more literal translation of the headline would have been, ``Native Speakers of Questionable Quality Abound." However, once you read the story, Korea Beat's translation is actually more accurate in terms of both the content and tone of the article.

2009-06-22 17:50

I Just Dont Get It

I thought that I knew Koreans. After all, I am ethnically Korean and was born and raised in Seoul until I was nine years old. I even speak and write the language with native fluency. And, needless to say, I look like a Korean, albeit an older model that's losing trade-in value pretty precipitously.

2009-06-08 17:24

Suicide Is Painless

The mind often makes bizarre associations. When suddenly presented with shocking news, it instinctively links it with some other piece of information dormant in your subconscious that seems totally unrelated on the surface.

2009-05-25 17:41

Karma and Your Brain

The central narrative of the current economic crisis is that highly capable individuals driven by rational self-interest have made such bad decisions that they almost brought down the world's financial infrastructure and visited ruin upon themselves.

2009-05-11 17:23

Hairy Angel of Scotland

Around two weeks ago, a 47-year old Scottish woman named Susan Boyle, unique in her frumpy ordinariness, stepped onto the stage of ``Britain's Got Talent" and blew the world away with her singing. The fact that netizens worldwide have now ordained her as the ``hairy angel" should tell you what kind of an underwhelming TV image she cut at the time of her audition.

2009-04-27 17:20

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