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Tue, October 22, 2019 | 11:08

How to ease social pressures

World Suicide Prevention Day was on September 10, and World Mental Health Day is on October 10. It seems appropriate then to talk about the broad state of our societal mental health, particularly its implications for politics in Korea. More on that later.

2019-09-30 15:04

Toni Morrison, one of my favorite writers, was singularly focused on the odd conundrum of the American experiment. The myths it told itself and the world were (and are) convincing, albeit amid a bloody backdrop, strewn with the broken bodies of the Indigenous, blacks, and the colored, more broadly.

2019-09-03 18:12

One of the most recent and contentious examples of historical misdeeds and calls for reparations is between Korea and Japan. Imperial Japan colonized Korea from 1910 to 1945. During World War II, Japan forced many Koreans in Korea and Japan to work in squalid, dangerous conditions to support the war effort.

2019-08-05 17:49

Xi's trade deserves Trump

Remarkably, China has created a mercantile, quasi-capitalist society without the dynamism of democracy or the usual guidelines a regulated free market system entails.

2019-07-03 17:50

Is Korean democracy better than America's?

As the first woman president and head of state in East Asia, former President Park Geun-hye enjoyed a wellspring of goodwill and kudos for her ascension to Korea's highest elected office, both at home and abroad. Though a conservative, Park inspired whispered hopes and prayers among some of a feminist revolution in Korea, a largely patriarchal country.

Park Yoon-bae2019-06-04 18:01

Moon over the economy

The Democratic Party of Korea has had a fixation on rapprochement with North Korea for decades now. The famous (and somewhat tarnished) legacy of the Sunshine Policy in 1998 by then President Kim Dae-jung (the political mentor of current President Moon Jae-in) was ultimately unsuccessful.

2019-05-07 17:41

How Trump got trumped

The recent debacle at the summit in Vietnam between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was to be expected. Trump adores dictators, and wants to be one. Unlike the 45th U.S. president, Kim is an actual dictator. Brutal, venal, and cruel, Kim does have one quality any world leader should have.

2019-04-02 17:54

With the United States gearing up for another presidential election in 2020, the words “socialism” and “communism” have been thrown around a lot by the political right in the U.S. People use communism and socialism interchangeably, but this is a fundamental mistake.

2019-03-10 16:29

White supremacy, the remix

If I were to judge white folks by my own experiences, I wouldn't have very many negative things to say. Surrounded by them in my childhood, throughout college and graduate school, and from the southern United States, no less, there are very few instances of racism I can point to that would leave some indelibly negative mark on my psyche.

2019-02-11 17:04

I met a friend recently who expressed his admiration for President Moon Jae-in. Surely, he's more qualified to speak on the matter than I am. A Korean native, and Ivy League educated, he's also well-traveled and well versed in American and Korean political affairs. He has a deeper understanding than I do on the intricacies of Korean society.

2019-01-06 15:51

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