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Shim Jae-yun

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I am now the chief editorial writer of The Korea Times. I also worked as the managing editor of the newspaper for 26 months from April 2018. Before that my stints included Politics Desk editor, Business Desk editor, City Desk editor and Culture Desk editor. As a journalist of The Korea Times, the most influential English newspaper of Korea, I have been committed to promoting 'international justice' beyond the social justice pursued by vernacular papers. My career includes working as a visiting scholar in Britain's Cambridge University from 2006-07.

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Opinion

Russia poisons relations with the West

Alexei Navalny, Russia's top opposition politician who was poisoned on Aug. 20, is out of a coma.Navalny's case should prompt the U.S. and NATO nations to emerge from their own stupor regarding Russia, which is increasingly testing the West with its poisonous behavior.In the U.S., an intelligence consensus suggests that just as Russia targeted the 2016 election, it's doing the same in 2020 _ once again on behalf of President Donald Trump, who has refused to respond to the latest intelligence reports with any alacrity.He's also failed to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin over any number of provocations, including reports that Russia has placed bounties on U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan.In the Navalny case, the G-7 issued a statement on Tuesday that confirmed that he was poisoned with the Soviet-era chemical agent Novichok, which has been used on other Russian targets. While the G-7's call for a transparent investigation are appropriate, they're impossible in Putin's Russia. "This attack against opposition leader Navalny is another grave blow against democracy and political

Sep 16, 2020By Shim Jae-yun
Editorial

ED Controversy over digital prison

Tougher punishment needed for sex crimes Controversy is flaring over Digital Prison, a website disclosing the personal identities of alleged sex offenders. A recent apparent suicide of a university student whose identity was revealed on the website triggered concern over the legitimacy of such a name and shame system.Critics say the “vigilantism'' can result in victimizing people through false accusations. In fact, the student had been claiming his innocence since he was named on the website for allegedly placing a female student's photo on pornographic images. Police began investigating the site after he filed a complaint, but had difficulties because the server was based overseas.The operator launched the website in July allegedly out of frustration over the judiciary system's dealing leniently with heinous sex crimes. The site came under criticism in August when it falsely accused a man of a rape committed in 2004 in Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province. Although the site deleted the post with an apology, the man was subjected to hateful comments and threats online. The site p

Sep 8, 2020By Shim Jae-yun
Opinion

No, US isn't 'winning' at coronavirus testing. But we could be

President Donald Trump likes to say no one is testing for COVID-19 like the United States. If by that he means no country has been as disorganized and scattershot when it comes to testing for the coronavirus that would be easy to believe.The president doesn't mean that, of course; he's saying we do more tests than any other country. But this country's testing record is nothing to be proud of. Depending on the state, there are between two and 13 times more people infected with COVID-19 than have been identified.The U.S. started off behind the curve, bungling the first rollout of COVID-19 tests. And five months into the pandemic, with cases, deaths and hospitalizations back on the upswing in several states, the U.S. is still far behind the level of testing needed to control the spread of the infection and safely reopen businesses and schools.Capacity for diagnostic tests varies wildly from state to state. Organized contact tracing and isolation of infected people isn't happening in a meaningful way. It's a mess.Winning is still an option _ if Congress and the president commit now to sp

Jul 29, 2020By Shim Jae-yun
Politics

Economics and culture war

By Robert SkidelskyLONDON ― I have long criticized economics for its lack of realism, and for producing “models” of human behavior that are at best caricatures, and at worst parodies of the real thing. In my recent book What's Wrong with Economics?, I argue that, in their attempt to establish universal laws, economists willfully ignored the particularities of histories and culture.The economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen brilliantly captured this blindness. In a 1908 article, Veblen imagined economists explaining the behavior of “a gang of Aleutian Islanders slushing about in the wrack and surf with rakes and magical incantations for the capture of shellfish” in terms of utility maximization.In the 18th century, practitioners of economics ― the study of how people went about the ordinary business of making a living ― decided to align their inquiries with the so-called “hard” sciences, especially physics, as opposed to “human” sciences like history. Their ambition was to construct a “physics” of society in which social structures were just as subject to invariant laws as natural

Jul 21, 2020By Shim Jae-yun
Politics

Korea Times, APLN sign MOU for essay contest

Moon Chung-in, left, vice chair and executive director of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN), and The Korea Times President and Publisher Oh Young-jin at the newspaper's building in Seoul, Tuesday, after signing a memorandum of understanding to jointly host an essay contest on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. The contest will be open to Korean and international students. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-sukBy Shim Jae-yunThe Korea Times and the Asia Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Tuesday to hold an essay contest on the subject, “Nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament in the Asia-Pacific region.”Korea Times President-Publisher Oh Young-jin and APLN Vice Chair and Executive Director Moon Chung-in, who concurrently serves as special adviser to President Moon Jae-in, signed the MOU at The Korea Times head office. The contest is aimed to foster a new generation of young people committed to nuclear issues and foster internatio

Jul 21, 2020By Shim Jae-yun
Korea Times, APLN sign MOU for essay contest
Politics

“The citizens are the mayor”: The personal legacy of Park Won-soon

“The citizens are the mayor” as Mayor Park Won-soon would repeatedly remark during his countless speeches domestic and abroad, and I feel it greatly sums up his servitude as the Mayor of Seoul for his third and last term which lasted almost a decade. As the longest serving Mayor of Seoul, he was definitely not your average, anachronistic Mayor.By Andrew Yongwoo Lim (photos tentative)“The citizens are the mayor” as late Mayor Park Won-soon would repeatedly remark during his countless speeches, domestic and abroad, and I feel it greatly sums up his servitude as the mayor of Seoul for his third and last term which lasted almost a decade. As the longest serving mayor of Seoul, he was definitely not your average, anachronistic mayor.It was his engagement with the citizens that truly stood him out. In every opportunity he would get, whether it be conferences or his numerous outings, he would engage with the citizens, leaning in and listen to every word that the citizens have to say, carefully articulating his responses, and would utilize these everyday lessons to lay the foundations of his

Jul 20, 2020By Shim Jae-yun
Politics

A doomed Middle East peace

By Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV ― Twenty years ago this month, U.S. President Bill Clinton invited Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat to a peace summit at Camp David, in a bold effort to resolve one of the longest-running conflicts of modern times. Though no agreement was reached, the summit, in which I participated, was not a failure: the framework it produced became the foundation upon which Clinton built his “peace parameters” ― the most equitable and realistic rendition of a two-state solution ever created. Why did nothing come of them?Under the so-called Clinton Parameters, a large swath of Israeli settlements would be dismantled, in order to create a Palestinian state encompassing 100% of the Gaza Strip and 97% of the West Bank. Territories would be transferred from Israel, in exchange for the land the Palestinians conceded in the West Bank.The Palestinian state would include the Arab sections of Jerusalem, which would serve as its capital, while the Jewish sections of the city would become Israel's capital. Thi

Jul 19, 2020By Shim Jae-yun
Politics

American Indians see change coming

A football team finally discards a despised and derogatory name, and the U.S. Supreme Court unexpectedly holds Congress to account for promises more than a century old. These two decisions, one symbolic, one legal, should provide some genuine hope that despite so many challenges, society is capable of positive change.The first reform may seem inconsequential to some. The Washington Redskins, after decades of pressure, have renounced a nickname that has long been a pejorative for American Indians. The team did so not out of altruism, but because corporate sponsors applied the ultimate pressure _ potential loss of revenue. Corporations are far more sensitive to public opinion than politicians, it would seem, and have wound up helping to lead change on LGBTQ issues, climate, Black Lives Matter and now this. FedEx threatened to pull its name from the team's stadium because it considered the name at odds with its values. Nike pulled team gear from its online stores. These firms recognized that public sentiment has changed on these issues and will no longer tolerate offensive denigration o

Jul 17, 2020By Shim Jae-yun
Politics

DNS Technology CEO to head Saeshilla Rotary Club

DNS Technology CEO Lee Won-woo, center, cuts cakes with other dignitaries during a ceremony for his inauguration as president of the Saeshilla Rotary Club (RC) at the Bankers' Club in Myeong-dong, Thursday. They are, from left, Rotary Korea D-3650 Assistant Governor Woo Sang-min, former Korea Exchange Bank President Kim Jae-ki, Lee, D-3650 Governor Yoo Jang-hee and former Saeshilla RC President Lee Byung-chae. Korea Times photo by Shim Jae-yun

Jul 6, 2020By Shim Jae-yun
DNS Technology CEO to head Saeshilla Rotary Club
Arts & Theater

Artist Shim honored

Artist Shim honored: Prof. Shim Young-churl, left, of Suwon University, is given an award by Chung Kwan-mo, an honorary chairman of the Korean Fine Arts Association (KFAA), at the Korean Artist's Center in Seoul, Thursday, in recognition of her outstanding achievement in the fine arts. Shim heads an association of women sculptors. Courtesy of Shim Young-churl

Dec 9, 2019By Shim Jae-yun
Artist Shim honored
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