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. Bernard Rowan

K-pop and fandom

The Korean wave or hallyu is a deepening trend in Korean civilization. Korean performers on television and in music lead the wave. Recently, I've learned about various kinds of idolizing and obsessive fans: “sasaeng” fans, anti-fans and “stan” fans. I also found Koreaboo.com's explanation of K-pop fan types from “pyramids” to “liquid types.” I've honestly never seen the bread...

2023-08-20 16:35

. Kim Sang-woo

Real test of Camp David summit

On Friday (local time), U.S. President Joe Biden held a trilateral summit at Camp David, Maryland with the leaders of the main U.S. allies in Asia, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, where a series of new commitments on diplomatic, economic and military cooperation were formalized.

2023-08-20 16:30

. Andrew Hammond

UK's failing green leadership is tragedy for world

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, unexpectedly, in early August decided to grant 100 new licenses for oil and gas production in the North Sea. His intent is to open up new fossil fuel energy sources, but he has also begun a huge political furor about the U.K.'s net zero commitments.

2023-08-17 16:35

. John J. Metzler

Putin's Sahel proxy confronts France, US

The recent military coup d'etat in Niger, a vast and arid land on the southern tier of the Sahara, underscores the widening political crisis in Africa's Sahel region, where instability, dire poverty and Islamic jihadi terrorism, have stalked the land.

2023-08-17 16:00

. Yoon Byung-se

Trilateral Camp David summit and its historical implications

The trilateral Camp David summit slated for Friday will go down as a new chapter in the history of Northeast Asia for symbolic and substantive reasons. This is the first time that the leaders of the United States, South Korea and Japan are gathering for a standalone trilateral summit and not on the sidelines of multilateral summits like in the past. Remarkably, it is taking p...

2023-08-17 15:29

. Jason Lim

Instagram nation

Growing up in the '80s, I remember how “conspicuous consumption” was used to describe a lifestyle in which luxurious “things” were bought for the express purpose of showing off, thereby gaining a sense of superiority from the collective envy of others. The only limiting factor about conspicuous consumption was that you actually had to have the resources to consume something o...

2023-08-15 15:08

. Ahn Ho-young

How to implement Washington Declaration

The Chey Institute started an ambitious new project in August 2018 soon after the Singapore Declaration between U.S. President Trump and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un. It was to invite a group of foreign policy and security watchers in Korea and organize a series of debates focused on the North Korean nuclear issue. The purpose of the project was to promote study a...

2023-08-15 15:06

. Deauwand Myers

After the American Civil War, all states with enslaved populations of African descent (the Confederacy) were forced to free those populations (except in Texas, where the enslaved were informed of their hard-fought freedom later than in other states). On June 19, 1865, 2,000 Union troops entered Galveston Bay, Texas. The Union Army declared that the more than 250,000 enslaved ...

2023-08-14 14:50

. Daniel Shin

Entrepreneurial trait: tolerance for ambiguity

What makes entrepreneurial leaders visionary is their ability to have followers or potential collaborators see the world radically differently from the one they currently experience.

2023-08-14 13:57

Kim Sung-woo

Carbon Border Adjustment is just around the corner ... Now what?

The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a measure to address gaps in carbon prices between countries. Its main purpose is to prevent so-called carbon leakage, a phenomenon that occurs when production facilities move from countries with strict carbon regulations - which often leads to weakened competitiveness in terms of business environment - to countries with looser...

2023-08-13 14:32

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