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Rushan Ziatdinov

Russian offers advice on enduring Korea's winters

Last year, The Korea Times published an article in which Canadians gave advice on how to stay warm during South Korean winters. I would agree that South Korea has mild, short winters. As a person who lived in Russia for about 30 years, I experienced cold winters and hot summers with temperatures ranging from about minus 40 degrees Celsius to 40 degrees Celsius.

2023-11-30 16:00

. John J. Metzler

North Korea 'Third Time Lucky' launch of spy satellite

North Korea got lucky. After two previous failures earlier this year to launch a spy satellite, Pyongyang successfully sent a satellite into orbit. Using a powerful Chollima rocket, the military satellite was placed into orbit prompting leader Kim Jong-un to proclaim the launch “had propelled the country into a new era of space power.”

2023-11-29 16:35

Sandip Kumar Mishra

Repercussions of 'confident' diplomacy

It was not unexpected that South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Chinese President Xi Jinping could not meet on the sidelines of the APEC summit in San Francisco. The Chinese president had time to meet the U.S. leader for four hours and the Japanese leader for 65 minutes but he did not give South Korea's leader more than three minutes. The Chinese leader also met leaders o...

2023-11-29 16:30

. Andrew Hammond

Before COP 28, Europe's global green leadership grows

Since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) last year in Washington, there has been a huge focus on the resurgence of U.S. green leadership. However, under the global radar in North America, far less attention is - surprisingly - paid to Canada’s burgeoning credentials in this area.

2023-11-28 16:35

. Casey Latigue

What is 'your GivingTuesday' story?

Today is 'GivingTuesday'! While almost every South Korean I have asked is familiar with American Thanksgiving, few South Koreans I have talked with are aware of the frantic shopping and giving movement following it.

2023-11-27 16:35

. Bernard Rowan

Thinking about Gaza

I studied at the University of Chicago and took a course on comparative politics. David Laitin, now at Stanford, noted the purpose of political science in the 20th century was to understand how the monstrosity of Nazi Germany arose. This concerned the international war and the domestic context for Nazism’s origins and existence.

2023-11-26 16:35

. Jason Lim

Why is it so hard to be thankful?

This is Thanksgiving week. No matter how it may have come about, with pilgrims, American Indians and turkeys and all, it has become a wholesome holiday meant to invoke a sense of thanks for what we have. On the other hand, it’s ironic that we have to have an annual holiday specifically meant to remind us to be thankful, which probably means that we are not usually thankful. W...

2023-11-23 16:35

. Park Chong-hoon

Navigating uncertainty: economic forecasts and global dynamics in 2024

It is already November, the time of year when market economists embark on the annual ritual of forecasting macroeconomic indexes for the following year - an exercise fraught with uncertainty, at best. Economic forecasts are based on several assumptions, which may or may not come to pass. Historically, the U.S. and Chinese economies, oil price dynamics, geopolitics and the for...

2023-11-23 16:34

. John J. Metzler

Argentines choose freedom over same old political tango

Facing a tight and tense presidential election showdown, Argentines chose freedom. In a stunning upset, the South American country elected an upstart libertarian candidate Javier Milei, an economist who promised to cut spending, reduce bloated budgets, mixed with calls for economic shock therapy to save the resource-rich country from its downward spiral.

2023-11-23 16:00

. Steven L. Shields

Just a few days ago, something unusual happened in the U.S. state of Michigan. Seeking to bring a close to the weeks-long strike against the automakers, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain invoked the teachings of Jesus as relevant to the striking workers in what many observers see as a resurgence of the 'social gospel.' Fain argued the righteousness of the labor union i...

2023-11-21 16:35

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