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Sun, March 29, 2020 | 21:47

Jason Lim

That's supposedly the number of men who paid “Baksa” meaning a Ph.D., up to $1,200 in cryptocurrency to receive a link that would take them to chat rooms hosted on Telegram or Wickr.

2020-03-29 17:05

Chang Se-moon

How to minimize likely lawsuits from COVID-19

Right or wrong, numerous lawsuits will be filed in many countries affected severely by COVID-19, once the health issues from the virus are under control.

2020-03-29 17:02

Flattening COVID19 curve in developing countries

Flattening COVID19 curve in developing countries

COVID-19 is ravaging advanced economies such as Italy, France, Spain, and the United States. Beyond the deaths and human suffering, markets are discounting a catastrophic recession accompanied by massive defaults, as expressed in the radical repricing of corporate credit risk by financial markets.

2020-03-29 17:01

Forget social distancing, what's happening is criminal

Forget social distancing, what's happening is criminal

I got an email from the ACLU the other day. I have absolutely no idea how I got on their mailing list, since I've written column after column criticizing them for their positions on everything from representing accused terrorists to their problem with religion in the public square.

2020-03-29 17:00

Are we addicted to coronavirus statistics?

Are we addicted to coronavirus statistics?

I am an information junkie. I admit it. Turning down an offering of freshly picked information is hard for me. Stopping myself from indulging my obsession is even harder. Information fills a void. It feels gratifying, except that the more you indulge, the more addicted you become. There is sorely little help for this psychological disorder.

2020-03-28 09:19

Mark Peterson

Korea never invaded another country

Last week I looked at the number of invasions Korea has suffered, and I explained my point of view, that there were really very few invasions in spite of the popular opinion that Korea has been invaded numerous times. Today's entry (#4) in this series I call, “Peaceful and Stable Korea,” looks at the fact that Korea has never invaded another country.

2020-03-27 17:52

Oh Young-jin

Mr. President, undo your pay cut

I will only take “your heart” that comes with your kind offer. That would be my response to a 40 percent pay cut President Moon Jae-in made together with top government officials. Moon kindly offered the chunk of his salary to people suffering the effects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic - hundreds of thousands of small merchants and gig workers who have seen their incomes...

Oh Young-jin | 2020-03-27 17:39

Leadership in time of contagion

Leadership in time of contagion

Google “Europe” and “crisis” and you will turn up 784 million results. So often do the two terms appear together that they might as well be a compound noun. With each new eurocrisis, commentators wring their hands over the question of whether the European project will survive.

2020-03-27 17:31

Kang Hyun-kyung

President's narrative

“Coupang is better than the government.”I found this comment from a reader while reading an online news article on Sunday about President Moon Jae-in's “self-promotional” narrative on why South Korea, unlike other countries like the United States, Britain and Australia, has no panic buying despite the coronavirus pandemic.

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2020-03-27 11:37

How Trump's incompetence breeds coronavirus denial in US

How Trump's incompetence breeds coronavirus denial in US

Adept moral leadership at the top, whether in Washington or Hong Kong, is central to any serious public health strategy. As the poet W.B. Yeats wrote in 1919, “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world …”

2020-03-26 18:40

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