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Would Korea say no to US?

It appears to be unthinkable for South Korea to give up its decades-old alliance with the United States and choose China in its place. However, a combination of events gives a sense of reality to this unlikely scenario. Recently, a group of opposition lawmakers visited China on a fact-finding mission over Beijing’s opposition to Seoul’s decision to deploy a U.S.-made missile ...

2017-01-13 16:01

Can Korea say no to US?

It appears to be unthinkable for South Korea to give up its decades-old alliance with the United States and choose China in its place. However, a combination of events gives a sense of reality to this unlikely scenario. Recently, a group of opposition lawmakers visited China on a fact-finding mission over Beijing’s opposition to Seoul’s decision to deploy a U.S.-made missile ...

2017-01-13 11:32

Trump Discount (II)

Will Donald Trump destroy the world?

2017-01-06 17:17

Trumpian brave new world

Will Donald Trump destroy the world? It is a two-tiered loaded question.

2017-01-06 11:13

Trump Discount (1)

Not everything Trumpian is vulgar and out of ignorance. Especially, his latest moves in foreign affairs, the area that he is supposed to have no expertise in, should be seen as standard-challenging and change-seeking acts. And that is exactly the ticket that got Donald Trump elected in the first place. On Dec. 2, Trump took a congratulatory call from Tsai Ing-wen, the Taiwane...

2016-12-30 11:53

Korea's original sin - family

The ongoing Choi Soon-sil scandal is a typical Korean saga but with a star cast - President Park Geun-hye, her friend Choi and chaebol. One common thread that ties them together is family or, more exactly an attempt to preserve or promote their family interests or traditions at whatever cost. In a way, it is close to a DNA-controlled survival instinct.

2016-12-23 11:07

Are women unfit to lead?

One charge that President Park Geun-hye is automatically guilty of without the agreement of six judges out of nine at the Constitutional Court is the damage done to the credibility of women as leaders. For that alone, Park may deserve more than the penalty she would get if all charges against her are proven. The entire nation is currently enraged by Park’s “weird” acts - shar...

2016-12-16 13:48

Korea is more stable after impeachment

Park's odd dream about Roh Moo-hyun

Key pieces have been missing in a puzzle about why President Park Geun-hye has acted in such a, well, puzzling way.

2016-12-08 13:10

Democracy - Korean style

If Jesus showed up and dared the crowd of a million people in Gwanghwamun, “Whoever is without sin among you, let him (her) be the one to cast the first stone” at President Park Geun-hye, the chance is that Park would face one million stones being hurled in her direction. It would be impossible to know who had thrown the first.

2016-12-05 11:33

Karl Marx would turn in his grave, if he knew the interclass struggle is spreading like an infectious disease and reaching global proportions. The problem for the father of communism is he wouldn’t know whether to be happy or upset by this belated flourishing of his prediction. He may most likely get choked on this part: his movement’s poster child (considering him to be puer...

2016-12-02 12:15

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