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Team culture and horizontal leadership

Is your team culture successful? Why are some teams’ performances superior even when they have the same amount of people, space, resources, and recruitment standards as the other teams? This is the first question I usually ask the team leaders of corporations, as almost all corporations are interested in creating high-performing teams.

Thoughts of the Times | 2017-06-19 17:25

Bestsellers on North Korea (part2)

Yesterday, I explored how North Korea escape narratives became bestsellers. Today, I ask: have human rights abuses been tackled as a result of the escape narratives, or have these stories become a form of grim escapism?

Thoughts of the Times | 2017-06-16 17:27

Bestsellers on North Korea (part 1)

“Imagination is more important than knowledge” - so said Albert Einstein in a 1929 interview. Given the mind’s extraordinary capacity to be transported, it’s bizarre that many of us are using this potential to inhabit North Korea’s gulags and propaganda offices, thanks to a plentiful supply of escape narratives. As I let go of Jang Jin-sung’s “Dear Leader,” there are two key ...

Thoughts of the Times | 2017-06-15 17:51

China's North Korea policy

Much has been said of Beijing’s influence on Pyongyang and its ability to compel the regime towards change. Through sustained support for Pyongyang since the 1950s, China has demonstrated its strategic interests in ensuring the Kim Dynasty’s survival. Seemingly disregarding this fact, expectations in Washington for Beijing to rein in Pyongyang are rising. Yet, what can Beijin...

Thoughts of the Times | 2017-06-14 17:50

Pretty smart cookie

It is common to fall into the habit of using positive words that can change our attitudes or thoughts. U.S. President Donald J. Trump told CBS’s John Dickerson, in an interview that aired April 30 on Sunday’s episode of Face the Nation, “Kim Jong-un is “a pretty smart cookie,” denoting “a very clever aleck kid” followed by his amusing comment saying “North Korea has played th...

Thoughts of the Times | 2017-06-13 17:27

Unique performance of Sri Lanka

Buddhist contact between Korea and Sri Lanka can be traced back to the 13th century. In the modern era, Venerable Anagarika Dharmapala, a Ceylonese revivalist of Buddhism whose adopted name means “homeless,” visited Korea in 1913 and donated the Sacred Relics of the Buddha (sarira) to the Jogye Buddhist Order. Since my office in Seoul is near Joogyesa Temple where the Sacred ...

Thoughts of the Times | 2017-06-12 18:10

Illogical English language

Many people decry English as being illogical. As a matter of fact, there are many English words, idioms, cliches and common expressions that defy logic.

Thoughts of the Times | 2017-06-11 16:52

Subject-matter expertise not enough

Preparing teachers to be effective in K-12 classrooms has always been a challenge. But it’s become even harder as the student population has slowly but dramatically changed. South Korea and the United States serve as cases in point.

Thoughts of the Times | 2017-06-09 17:08

Georgia to start new projects with Korea

Georgia, which is located at the heart of the Caucasus region, has a great willingness to improve relations with South Korea. The country’s newly appointed Ambassador Otar Berdzenishvili has shared his significant projects for the bilateral relations with journalists during a press meeting in early May. The young ambassador who has worked as ambassador at large at the Georgia...

Thoughts of the Times | 2017-06-08 17:49

People always predict things, anything, it doesn’t matter. Most people who predict the coming of a future event do it with an informed guess or opinion. When someone predicts by any procedure or any source of information, we usually say they are foretelling the coming of a future event. For example, the end of the world has been predicted and foretold many times and continues...

Thoughts of the Times | 2017-06-07 17:35

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