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Psychology of Hell Joseon

“Hell Joseon,” referring to how difficult it is for a young person to live in Korea today, has been getting a lot of media exposure lately. In quoting the big data analysis firm, Daumsoft, The Korea Times reported that “Hell Joseon” was cited 101,700 times this year on Twitter and in blog posts.

2015-10-02 16:24

Who's the real Captain Kirk?

Tim Urban recently published a fascinating piece in WaitButWhy.com titled “You are not your brain or your body,” exploring the various ways we attempt to define what "e" means. He goes through several prevailing theories that make for interesting thought experiments.

2015-09-18 16:42

Why Angela but not Abe?

Last year marked the 70th anniversary of the Normandy Invasion on D-Day, widely considered the beginning of the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany by the Allied forces. Eighteen world leaders attended the ceremony, including the American President, French President, Queen of England, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

2015-09-04 16:38

Amnesty International and sex work

Prostitution is a huge industry in Korea. Although accurate figures are not available because of the underground nature of the trade, prostitution and related businesses (prostitution also channels significant economic activities to motels, beauty parlors, public baths, and bars) are estimated to employ up to 1 million people, about 4 percent of the economically active population in Korea. The sex trade was estimated to have an annual economic output of up to $24 billion dollars, 4.1 percent of Korea’s GDP in 2002.

2015-08-21 16:19

What is Japan to Korea?

Imagine you were poor and hungry, growing up in a backward rural village. One day, there was this nouveau riche family who came from a far-away city, bullying and abusing everyone in the village on the back of their power and connections. In collusion with authorities, they would confiscate the land, raze everything in the name of development, treat everyone like slaves and terrorize with impunity.

2015-08-07 16:18

Big data lessons from Ashley Madison

Ashley Madison was hacked last week, with the hackers threatening to post its membership list unless they were paid. But what got lost in the collective hand-wringing was that membership of a cheating site actually doesn’t necessarily mean you are cheating. People could have joined for curiosity, novelty, research, companionship, conversation partners, and any other host of reasons that could - but also might not - lead to actual sex between people.

2015-07-24 16:23

Leadership lesson of Megachurches

Should a highly successful and effective leader adhere to an equally high level of personal ethics and morality? In other words, does leadership success justify, or at least excuse, certain personal ethical failings? Or, do you have to match your words with your own actions to become a truly effective and authentic leader?

2015-07-10 16:55

Black, Hispanic, Jewish Korean American

I grew up in the Bronx, which means that I grew up with more black and Hispanic kids than many African Americans that I know and work with today. I also went to school with largely Jewish kids, having attended more Bar Mitzvahs that I can remember. Also, I spent two-and-a-half years of my childhood in Asuncion, Paraguay, playing soccer with the indigenous Guarani Indian kids and shouting with the best of them in bastardized Spanish.

2015-06-26 17:15

Korea's national image epidemic

In an emergency National Assembly hearing on the Park administration’s crisis management failures over the MERS epidemic, members of both parties repeatedly suggested to Moon Hyeong-pyo, Minister of Health and Welfare, that the government raise its disease alert level from "watch" to "warning" due to the increasingly serious nature of the outbreak. According to reports, Minister Moon demurred, responding that raising the alert level to "warning" would have a negative impact on Korea's national image.

2015-06-12 17:26

A black man named Eddie Murphy

When I recently heard about the Duke History professor who replied to an editorial in the New York Times by complaining that “virtually every black has a strange new name that symbolizes their lack of desire for integration,” my thoughts flashed to an old Eddie Murphy interview. In a way that was at once incisive, uncomfortable, and funny when he was at his best, Murphy said that he sometimes found himself wandering how a black man like himself ended up with an Irish name.

2015-05-29 17:03

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