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Why do women stop working?

According to most studies, around 70 percent of Korean women aged between 25 and 29 are part of the workforce. This number drops precipitously to 55 percent when women reach their 30s, and rises only slightly for those in their 40s and older.

2014-02-07 16:49

Why Ahn is not a terrorist

On Oct. 26, 1909, Ahn Jung-geun shot dead Hirobumi Ito at Harbin railway station in Northeast China and instantly became a hero to the Korean people who were then just beginning a period of forced annexation under Imperial Japan. Ahn caught the imagination of the Chinese as well, who were also being brutally subjugated by Japan. More than 100 years later, a memorial was recently dedicated in Harbin to honor him.

2014-01-24 16:54

Divine right of Kims

Human beings have an instinctive need to "make sense" of everything that they see. If we can't quite put a finger on something, we get frustrated and begin making up explanations of what we have just seen.

2014-01-10 16:21

Jesus was a failure

Tis' the season to be jolly. Christmas trees large and small decorated with kaleidoscopic colors that shine vibrantly against the beautiful winter skies could make you swear that John and George are singing "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" from somewhere up there.

2013-12-27 17:52

Who will dare be Korea's Mandela?

In some ways, Nelson Mandela was a large part of my life. I don't mean that I ever met him or even considered him my personal hero growing up. But I remember that a large part of the socially conscious background noise of my generation had to do with boycotting companies doing business with the apartheid South Africa and signing Amnesty International petitions calling for Mandela's release from prison.

2013-12-13 16:13

'Amygdala hijack' in East Asia

You can't help but guffaw somewhat mirthlessly when you read articles that portray American policymakers confused and frustrated that Japan and South Korea don't kiss and make up as they face the growing hegemony of the Chinese might.

2013-11-29 16:21

Is K-pop flying Incognito?

"Richie is honorary (black). I don't expect you to understand because you're not black. But being a black guy, being a brother is more than just about skin color. It's about how you carry yourself. How you play. Where you come from. What you've experienced. A lot of things."

2013-11-15 17:17

Korea can use some dictatorship… Amen

By Jason LimAccording to news reports, a number of prominent Christian ministers recently held a memorial service to commemorate the 34th anniversary of former President Park Chung-hee’s assassination death. Attendees included, among others, the younger daughter of the assassinated president, who is, of course, the sister of the sitting president.Besides the irony of having a Christian memorial service for someone who had been a practicing Buddhist in his life, controversy arose when the memorial service turned out to be less a religious ceremony than an all-out event to praise Park&rs...

2013-11-01 16:50

Samsung's innovation efforts

I have to confess that I don't care for the word "innovation." I don't like it because it doesn't mean anything. Or, more accurately, it means so many things to so many different people that it ends up not meaning anything.

2013-10-18 16:54

Who am I, according to your brain

One of the two central tenets of Buddhism is that there is no independent, self-sufficient self that makes up who we are. In other words, no man is an island. This concept is often termed “selflessness” and is best articulated through this 1993 quote by Fred Kofman and Peter Senge, founding director of the Center for Organizational Learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

2013-10-04 17:18

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