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White men and Korean woman

At the risk of dating myself, I taught English in a major language institute in Seoul for two years in the mid-1990s.

Jason Lim | 2013-07-26 17:37

The great inner wall of Korea

Last week’s crash landing of an Asiana Airlines jet spawned several interesting articles in the international media on the intersection of Korean culture and crisis management.

Jason Lim | 2013-07-12 17:15

What if Robb Stark was African?

For those of you living under a rock, Game of Thrones is the blockbuster HBO series based on “A Song of Ice and Fire,” George R. R. Martin’s series of fantasy novels. It’s violent, gritty, sexy, and incredibly addictive, with a wide following across the world.

Jason Lim | 2013-06-28 17:38

Speak Korean if you want to marry

I am no libertarian, but I always thought that choosing your spouse was a matter of personal choice.

Jason Lim | 2013-06-14 17:33

What's the big deal about SAT cheating?

Koreans are once again beating themselves up because of the SATs.

Jason Lim | 2013-05-31 17:40

What my wife's breasts mean to me

When I first read about Angelina Jolie's piece in the New York Times about her double mastectomy, my thoughts flashed immediately to the only breasts that mattered to me: my wife's. As we all do, I asked myself the obvious "what if" questions. What if the doctors had told my wife that she faced the same odds that Angelina Jolie did - 87% of risk of breast cancer and 50 percent of ovarian cancer? Would we have done the same?

Jason Lim | 2013-05-17 17:08

Japan on late-night TV in China

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Shinzo Abe supposedly said the following when asked by a fellow lawmaker about his views on the 1995 Murayama Statement that apologized for Japanese colonial behavior: “The definition of what constitutes an 'invasion' has yet to be established in academia or in the international community. Things that happened between nations will look different depending on which side you view them from."

Jason Lim | 2013-05-03 17:39

What's terrifying about terrorism?

This past Monday, three people, including an 8-year-old boy, were killed by a terrorist’s bomb, and more than 170 people were injured.

Jason Lim | 2013-04-19 17:30

What's President Park's problem?

A recent editorial in these very pages complained that President Park’s “creative economy” appears to be more a campaign buzzword than a fully defined policy direction.

Jason Lim | 2013-04-05 17:32

SCARF down your brain

This is the second part of my two part column on the neuroscience behind change. In the first column, I spoke about how the brain sees every new situation in black and white: will this help or hurt my survival? In other words, will this kill me or help me live? Threat vs. Reward is the fundamental organizing principle of the human brain.

Jason Lim | 2013-03-22 17:13

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Lunch with Navy sailors