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Mon, January 25, 2021 | 15:43
Korea's Finnish lesson
Many years ago when I was working as a foreign correspondent in Sweden, I covered the rise of Nokia in next-door Finland. Nokia then was what could be described as a Finnish chaebol. It made everything from rubber boots and paper products to electricity cables and TVs. But in the early 1990s, the struggling conglomerate decided to focus on only one sector - mobile phones and telecommunications equipment.
2014-03-26 16:55
Japan's Korean envy
Koreans are angry about the growing nationalism of the Japanese government when it comes to issues from Dokdo to comfort women. But they also can take perverse pride in it as well, since Japan's posturing reveals the gnawing sense of inferiority that Japan now feels toward Korea.
2014-03-12 16:55
Horrible histories
There are a series of books published in the U.K. called Horrible Histories that detail gruesome events from the past, with such titles as Angry Aztecs and Vicious Vikings, to amuse schoolboys. It's proof of the old adage that tragedy plus time equals comedy.
2014-02-26 17:08
Where Korea is weak
I first came to live in Korea in 1992 and during these past 20 or so years I have watched the country complete its transition from a developing to a developed economy.
2014-02-12 17:01
Anxiety attack
Korea is beginning to confront an issue that is likely to dominate politics for years to come: a generational battle between young and old in one of the world’s fastest aging societies.
2014-01-29 16:06
Pyongyang gangland
I was recently in Las Vegas, the only major city in the world to have been created by organized crime. There is even a Mob Museum, which chronicles how The Syndicate helped build Sin City. Among its exhibits are graphic photos of the mob hits that were a regular feature of the feuding among the Mafia families.
2014-01-15 17:01
The concert of Asia
Next year will mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. Historians still argue whether Europe's plunge into war was an accidental outcome or inevitable. But what is indisputable is that the events of August 1914 did mark the sudden collapse of a system that had kept Europe largely peaceful for the previous century.
2013-12-18 16:57
A turning point at KEPCO?
Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) has been facing heavy criticism in the past year. The reputation of the state-owned power utility has been hit by the scandal that erupted a year ago when it was revealed that safety certificates for thousands of components used in its nuclear reactors had been forged.
2013-12-04 16:57
Seoul vs. Singapore
General Motors recently decided to move its international headquarters from Shanghai, where it had been operating for the last nine years. So where to go?
2013-11-20 17:52
Korea's Goldilocks economy
Despite talk of debt problems among mid-sized chaebol and households, Korea is currently enjoying what could be described as a Goldilocks economy: neither too hot that it causes inflation nor too cold that it results in a recession.
2013-11-06 16:52
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