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Is Hong Kong doomed to be a society of low birth rates and eventually declining population? Austrian demographer Wolfgang Lutz has put forward the hypothesis of a “low fertility trap” that illustrates the challenges we face. When fertility rates fall below a certain threshold, he says, it could be trapped at a level of around 1.2 children per woman, far below the replacement ...

Times Forum | 2017-07-25 17:48

Protocols of Donald Trump

LONDON - It is an odd quirk in the history of logic that the blameless Cretans should have given their name to the famous “liar paradox.” The Cretan Epimenides is supposed to have said: “All Cretans are liars.” If Epimenides was lying, he was telling the truth - and thus was lying. Something similar can be said of U.S. President Donald Trump: Even when he’s telling the truth,...

Times Forum | 2017-07-19 17:35

Chemicals viewed as two-edged sword

By Dr. Jeffrey I. Kim Chemical substances and chemical products affect people’s everyday lives. Chemists have developed chemicals to use for sanitation, preserving food, curing diseases and creating multiplying crop yields. Wastewater treatment is an example of sanitation. Chlorine is used to kill bacteria and other microorganisms. Salt and vinegar were the first food preserv...

Times Forum | 2017-07-17 16:56

Trump scapegoats Korea

President Moon Jae-in met with his counterpart Donald Trump in a two-day summit, to discuss many looming issues including those involving North Korea. The summit was successful and productive for South Korea because Moon’s visit officially ended the political vacuum since the impeachment of former President Park Geun-hye and confirmed the active role of the South Korean gover...

Times Forum | 2017-07-10 18:15

A Christmas story in July

As reported by many, President Moon Jae-in’s first stop in his inaugural visit to the U.S. was to lay a wreath at the memorial to the Battle of Chosin Reservoir at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. His address received good reviews from across the spectrum and seemed to affect people in a deeply meaningful way. But why? Because Moon told this story in three dimensions:...

Times Forum | 2017-07-07 17:29

How to minimize NK threat

Newly elected South Korean President Moon Jae-in visited Washington. The result could have been a tense meeting with President Donald Trump. Moon mixes skepticism of the THAAD anti-missile system with support for dialogue with the North. Since taking office the South Korean leader has tried to minimize perceived differences with America, claiming that his views are consistent...

Times Forum | 2017-07-02 17:58

The June 16 column by Donald Kirk stated that Christine Ahn, the international coordinator of Women Cross DMZ, neglected to say about the initial physical state of Otto Warmbier at the Washington conference. Ahn notified us that she was unaware at the time that Warmbier was comatose. We regret any misunderstanding. - ED.

Times Forum | 2017-06-28 16:56

Breaking the frame

Generally speaking, for decades there have been basically two frames of reference in South Korea - the conservative world view and the progressive world view. There was a certain tribalism mentality in that conservatives or progressives felt the need to subscribe to their “list” of beliefs, or at least defend them from attack by the other side. There were national leaders who...

Times Forum | 2017-06-26 17:30

Twenty years after Asian crisis

April is the cruellest month, so said the poet TS Eliot. But one wit remarked that June marks the end of May. Who would have expected that British Prime Minister Theresa May would lose her majority in Parliament in the June election, which was supposed to strengthen her hand in negotiating Brexit with the European Union? In sharp contrast, unlike earlier in the year when ever...

Times Forum | 2017-06-25 17:22

Secrets of FDI attraction and retention

Last week I attended the 2017 Investment Promotion Agency (IPA) Best Practice Roundtable. The Roundtable was held in Washington, D.C., and was organized by SelectUSA. The participants shared their knowledge or experiences of FDI attraction and retention. At this meeting I explained the role of Korea’s foreign investment ombudsman trying to retain foreign-invested companies by...

Times Forum | 2017-06-19 17:21

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