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. Donald Kirk

Perils of royalty

LONDON - Prince Harry's book “Spare,” about his terrible tiffs with higher-ups in the British royal family, including the “heir” to the throne, elder brother Prince William, invites comparisons with another “royal family,” that of Kim Jong-un, up in North Korea. Had Prince Harry lived in another age, he would have suffered the same consequences as did the relatives of Kim Jon...

2023-02-02 17:00

Eugene Lee

Economic crisis and global standards

Amid rising commodity and energy prices and falling property prices, Korea is reeling from the burden of decreasing exports and a depreciating won. Many are desperate for a breather from the troubles and are wondering what the best solution is for the future. My take is to follow global trends and adjust the economy according to international standards.

2023-02-01 16:40

. Mark Peterson

Home ownership and solving the marriage problem

In my last article I wrote a semi-optimistic, semi-pessimistic piece about the new year. I was optimistic that it would be a post-pandemic year with opportunities. But I was pessimistic concerning Korea's population decline, specifically the trend of low marriage rates and the low birthrate. Subsequent to writing my article, in the Korea Times where my article was published, ...

2023-01-31 16:50

Chyung Eun-ju, Joel Cho

Digital twinning cities

News outlets have been buzzing about “Metaverse Seoul,” as it became the first municipal government that offers a full-service on the virtual platform. Metaverse Seoul has been part of Seoul mayor, Oh Se-hoon's 10-year push to build the city as a global hub and at the same time, manage and offer various municipal services. The city project is estimated to cost around $34 mill...

2023-01-31 16:40

Lee Jong-eun

West should critically evaluate strategies of Cold War

As the world begins 2023, the geopolitical situation around the world is not bright. In Europe, the Russia-Ukraine War has dragged on for nearly a year, while the prospects of an escalation are stoking international security anxieties. In East Asia, North Korea threatens to conduct a seventh nuclear test and perfect its ICBM capability to place the U.S. mainland in its crossh...

2023-01-30 16:50

Rushan Ziatdinov

20 suggestions to improve Google Scholar and motivate global scholars

Google Scholar is a wonderful, freely accessible web search engine that indexes academic publications' full text or metadata from various publishing formats and disciplines. It indexes many more documents than Scopus or Web of Science databases, which can be found without registration in Google Scholar.

2023-01-30 16:40

. Jason Lim

Of course Gwen Stefani can be Japanese

Gwen Stefani caused a minor ruckus recently when she proclaimed in an interview that she identifies as Japanese. She was referring to the time in her childhood when she lived in Japan due to her father's work with Yamaha. “That was my Japanese influence and that was a culture that was so rich with tradition, yet so futuristic [with] so much attention to art and detail and dis...

2023-01-29 16:50

. Jang Da-wool

With great power comes great responsibility

“With great power comes great responsibility.” Whether you attribute this quote to the Spider-Man movies, Voltaire, or Winston Churchill, it makes perfect sense.

2023-01-29 16:40

. Andrew Hammond

Davos forum shows the 'business of business' is changing

Conservative thinker Milton Friedman famously declared in the 1970s, in the period leading up to the political era defined by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, that the 'business of business is business'. By this, he meant that the bottom line of the private sector should be making money for shareholders.

2023-01-26 16:20

. Steven L. Shields

Religious freedom, free speech and hate

Not long ago, an ultra-right-wing, so-called “Christian” broadcaster in Korea won the right in the courts to continue to preach hatred and incite violence against the LGBT community. The courts sided with the broadcaster under its interpretation of the constitutional guarantee of “religious freedom.”

2023-01-26 16:10

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