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Meaning of privacy when `they' know you better than you know yourself

A few years ago, Uber got into public relations trouble when they published a blog post describing how they can analyze ridership data to infer certain behavior on the part of riders: “One of the neat things we can do with our data is discover rider patterns…we came up with the Ride of Glory (RoG). A RoGer is anyone who took a ride between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. on a Friday or Saturday night, and then took a second ride from within 1/10th of a mile of the previous nights’ drop-off point 4-6 hours later (enough for a quick night’s sleep).”

2017-01-20 16:24

Just a Gangnam ajumma?

Kim Chong-in, the well-known economist who led the Democratic Party’s win in the last April’s parliamentary election as the interim president, recently said that Choi Soon-sil was nothing but a “Gangnam ajumma” who happened to subvert the whole governance process as a trusted confidant of President Park Geun-hye.

2017-01-06 17:30

Cognitive bias in negotiating with N. Korea

I’ve been a Korea watcher for a long time in formal and informal capacities.

2016-12-23 15:55

Unbearable Banality of Park's Evil

When Sewol sank in April 2014, it became apparent that the cozy relationships among the regulatory agencies, industry watchdogs, and safety inspection organizations all led to cursory safety checks that allowed for the design change and even gave Sewol good safety marks in February. Supposedly, it took an average of only 13 minutes for each ship when a four-person inspection team checked the condition of 36 ferries last year.

2016-12-09 17:00

Divided Families in US

Early in 1950, my Dad was all set to go to Moscow University School of Medicine on a full scholarship. Then the Korean War started in June of 1950. A few months after that, along with tens of thousands of fellow North Koreans, my Dad escaped to the South as U.N. forces retreated in the face of a furious counterattack by the People’s Army of China in the winter of 1950.

2016-11-25 16:58

America has disinvited the Clintons

When it became obvious that Donald Trump would win, my mind for some reason recalled an old 2014 article in the Washington Post titled, “In Fairfax County kindergarten classes, school system’s future comes into focus.”

2016-11-11 17:09

Failure of followership

Two years ago, I published a column titled, “Korea’s CULTural Exceptionalism,” describing the country’s tendency towards a "Korean Messianic Exceptionalism" that pervades all aspects of its modern culture. It manifests in a typical visionary, ethnocentric narrative that says that the Korean people, having emerged intact and whole through 2,000 years of trials and tribulations that culminated in the forced subjugation by the Japanese, will now attain greatness and take their rightful place as leaders of mankind.

2016-10-28 17:17

Korea's religious fundamentalism

By Jason Lim When you think of the Korean Independence Movement of early 20th Century, you usually think of the March 1st Movement in which tens of thousands of everyday Koreans rose up simultaneously across the country waving the newly created Korean flag in defiance of their Japanese masters. Or you think of the independence fighters in Manchuria winning key battles against units of the Imperial Japanese army against incredible odds. Of course, you can’t leave out An Jung-geun shooting dead Ito Hirobumi, the first Japanese Resident-General of Korea in Harbin. An is still celebra...

2016-09-30 17:03

Why does Park In-bee have to be pretty?

At 28 years old, Park In-bee is already a legend in the game of golf. She has 17 LPGA wins (7 majors) and just became the first Olympic champion in Women’s Golf since 1900. After her retirement, she’s pretty much guaranteed a spot in the LPGA Hall of Fame at the first available ballot.

2016-09-02 16:33

How come ROK's founding day is all about Japan?

The issue of the official founding day of the Republic of Korea made front page news when President Park Geun-hye said the following in her official address commemorating the anniversary of Liberation Day on Aug. 15: “Today marks the 71st Liberation Day and the 68th anniversary of the nation's founding." This would mean that she believes that the Republic of Korea was founded on Aug. 15, 1948. Historically, it is true that the official government of the Republic of Korea was established on that day with Syngman Rhee as the president. But is that the same thing as the founding of a nation?

2016-08-19 16:44

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