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Fri, October 20, 2017 | 14:09

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Will anything change? Nope

The last seven months in South Korean politics have surely been a whirlwind, concluding with the election of the liberal candidate, Moon Jae-in, as President. According to the breathless coverage from the international media, South Korea is now the epitome of liberal democracy and a model for all would-be democratic activists to follow, including the progressives in America w...

Times Forum | 2017-05-12 16:48

Light buried in color

Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, is currently having a very interesting permanent exhibition composed of two separate parts: one is titled “Beyond Time” and the other is “Beyond Space,” both of which are carefully selected from Leeum’s own collection of artwork. Beyond Time presents the museum’s choice ceramics, calligraphy, traditional paintings and Buddhist artwork from differ...

Times Forum | 2017-05-08 17:31

How Koreans view the law (2)

In this newspaper on April 4, in an article titled “Park faces tougher questioning Tuesday” the following sentence appeared: “Unlike the questioning at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office where [former President Park Geun-hye] was summoned and prosecutors focused on listening to her side of the story, [Prosecutor] Han is expected to be more aggressive this time to ...

Times Forum | 2017-05-02 17:26

Will Trump start 2nd Korean War?

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says “all options are on the table” regarding North Korea. The Pentagon backed his threat of war by sending a carrier battle group off the North’s coast. The North is believed to possess enough nuclear material for 20 bombs today and may accumulate enough material for 100 by 2024. With Pyongyang developing long-range missiles, the U.S. appears...

Times Forum | 2017-04-23 17:13

How did we get here?

Until recently, it appeared that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump for all intents and purposes would be following the policy adapted by President Barack Obama toward North Korea - one of “strategic patience,” or maybe in the new president’s case, “strategic patience plus,” meaning tougher sanctions. After all, Trump had campaigned during the election on an “A...

Times Forum | 2017-04-19 17:14

Spotlighting road to ROK's prosperity

Friedrich Hayek’s book, “The Road to Serfdom” was published in 1944 and became a bestseller. In that book he argues that the abandonment of individualism and classical liberalism inevitably leads to a loss of freedom, the creation of an oppressive society, the tyranny of a dictator and the serfdom of the individual. Although he believes that government intervention in markets...

Times Forum | 2017-04-18 16:40

Trump steals Xi's thunder

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s two-day visit to U.S. President Donald Trump’s over-the-top estate at Mar-a-Lago in Florida was meant to offer an opportunity to showcase China as an equal to the United States. Xi would ideally have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Trump, amid all the pomp and ostentatious kitsch of what Trump has called his 'Winter White House’, and impressed o...

Times Forum | 2017-04-10 17:31

How Koreans view the law (1)

Having worked as both a judge and a lawyer, I have seen and experienced the workings of the law from different perspectives in Korea. From 1965 to 1974, I sat as a judge in the Seoul District Court on both civil and criminal cases. In 1975, I was a Seoul High Court judge, and from 1975 to 1977 I served as a research judge for the Supreme Court. After working for a number of y...

Times Forum | 2017-04-09 17:14

Alexa and robot journalism

Alexa came to my house today. I have to wonder, how many of my Korea Times readers know her or not? Alexa is a “smart-machine servant,” programmed with artificial intelligence (AI), residing inside a simple wireless stand-alone speaker-like cylinder. She answers almost any question you can ask, after you simply call her name “Alexa.” I was impressed by her answers that extend...

Times Forum | 2017-04-07 17:36

Trump-Xi Jinping summit

Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a get-acquainted summit next week at Trump’s seaside retreat in Florida. Simply the fact that the two are meeting is a positive sign that provides some much-needed reassurance to a very uncertain relationship between the two countries. The entire Asia-Pacific region and the wider world have been nervously ...

Times Forum | 2017-04-02 17:56

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