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Fri, August 7, 2020 | 21:26

Jason Lim

Gods earthquake

By now, we have all watched the devastating live feed on Japan’s earthquake and the ferocious tsunami that followed it.

2011-03-16 16:29

How do you change default settings?

In a recent Harvard Business Review blog article titled, “To Be a Better Boss, Know Your Default Setting,” Linda Hill and Kent Lineback argue that we bring to our workplace the person who we are: “… our likes and dislikes, our preconceived ideas, the peculiar set of values and predispositions we’ve acquired, our unique personalities, values, and experience.”

2011-02-21 16:36

MADE with China

During the Cold War, the prevailing paradigm for global political stability was MAD, which stood for mutually assured destruction. It meant that neither side would dare to use nuclear weapons against another because it would invite an assured destruction for everyone.

2011-02-07 16:34

I black. You, me, same!

He might be better remembered as the tiny guy yelling, “Do you know, do you know, do you know?” in Nike commercials with Michael Jordan, but Spike Lee provided one of the most seminal moments of my youth growing up in New York City.

2011-01-19 15:46

Its my brain, stupid

The ritual stays the same year after year. As the New Year’s approaches, I grimace and muster up the courage to dig up my previous year’s resolutions and see how I am doing on the achievement meter.

2011-01-05 16:16

The luxurious Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi is taking flak for setting up a Christmas tree estimated to worth $11 million. And it’s not even a real tree. The fake fir tree is decorated with real gold, diamonds, rubies, pearls, and other precious jewels.

2010-12-22 17:43

Korean ninjas in America

Perhaps it was a part of the renegotiated KORUS FTA package, but until recently, I hadn’t realized that Korean male actors had to transform themselves into ninjas before being allowed to land a movie role in America. But apparently so, judging from Rain’s “Ninja Assassin,” Lee Byung-heon’s “Rise of the Cobra,” and, most recently, Jang Dong-gun’s “The Warrior’s Way.”

Jong-eun2010-12-10 16:38

Man in the mirror leadership

Can it be over 20 years already? I still remember it like yesterday seeing Michael Jackson perform his mega hit, ``Man in the Mirror,” during the 1988 Grammy’s with such power and dynamism that left those watching, including me, alternatively holding their breath and gasping for air.

2010-11-24 16:08

Koreas collective neurosis

I recently went into a discount furniture outlet near where I live and immediately found a petite Indian woman on my heels armed with the nice smile and predatory gaze of a typical sales person. In making small talk, she asked me whether I was Chinese. I said no. How about Vietnamese? I said no again. Then you must be Japanese? She was less certain. No, I told her, finally giving up. I am Korean.

2010-11-08 17:22

When our children dont look Korean

One of the enduring founding myths in Korea is that Korean people are ethnically ― and exclusively ― homogenous. Which is nonsense, of course. Korea was peopled by an organic and complex mixture of various groups from both North and South Asia. Recent studies show that Koreans have genetic affinities with Manchurians, Yunnan-Chinese from southern China, and Vietnamese, which all goes to show that humans have been migrating for thousands of years and intermixing with local populations to create new ones.

2010-10-25 17:19

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