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Thu, September 21, 2023 | 21:37
21. Deauwand Myers
Unhappy holidays
Christmas has never been my favorite holiday: the glaring decorative lights, the rank consumerism. Even the Christmas dinner food isn't all that great (eggnog and fruit cake come to mind). Thanksgiving, its problematic origins notwithstanding, is a much better day for eating, and less garish all around.
2019-12-18 16:56
On China's rise
I rarely comment on other writers' columns in The Korea Times. In fact, I have only done it once in the near decade of writing as a featured columnist at the paper. As before, I am aghast at the immorality of this particular column, and I felt duty-bound to rebut it.
2019-11-14 16:56
How to ease social pressures
World Suicide Prevention Day was on September 10, and World Mental Health Day is on October 10. It seems appropriate then to talk about the broad state of our societal mental health, particularly its implications for politics in Korea. More on that later.
2019-09-30 15:04
White terror
Toni Morrison, one of my favorite writers, was singularly focused on the odd conundrum of the American experiment. The myths it told itself and the world were (and are) convincing, albeit amid a bloody backdrop, strewn with the broken bodies of the Indigenous, blacks, and the colored, more broadly.
2019-09-03 18:12
You owe me
One of the most recent and contentious examples of historical misdeeds and calls for reparations is between Korea and Japan. Imperial Japan colonized Korea from 1910 to 1945. During World War II, Japan forced many Koreans in Korea and Japan to work in squalid, dangerous conditions to support the war effort.
2019-08-05 17:49
Xi's trade deserves Trump
Remarkably, China has created a mercantile, quasi-capitalist society without the dynamism of democracy or the usual guidelines a regulated free market system entails.
2019-07-03 17:50
Is Korean democracy better than America's?
As the first woman president and head of state in East Asia, former President Park Geun-hye enjoyed a wellspring of goodwill and kudos for her ascension to Korea's highest elected office, both at home and abroad. Though a conservative, Park inspired whispered hopes and prayers among some of a feminist revolution in Korea, a largely patriarchal country.
Park Yoon-bae2019-06-04 18:01
Moon over the economy
The Democratic Party of Korea has had a fixation on rapprochement with North Korea for decades now. The famous (and somewhat tarnished) legacy of the Sunshine Policy in 1998 by then President Kim Dae-jung (the political mentor of current President Moon Jae-in) was ultimately unsuccessful.
2019-05-07 17:41
How Trump got trumped
The recent debacle at the summit in Vietnam between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was to be expected. Trump adores dictators, and wants to be one. Unlike the 45th U.S. president, Kim is an actual dictator. Brutal, venal, and cruel, Kim does have one quality any world leader should have.
2019-04-02 17:54
Get money
With the United States gearing up for another presidential election in 2020, the words “socialism” and “communism” have been thrown around a lot by the political right in the U.S. People use communism and socialism interchangeably, but this is a fundamental mistake.
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