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Mitch Shin

Time to seek peace through diplomacy and dialogue

It has been apparent that the competition between the U.S.-led alliance and the anti-U.S. coalition in the East Asia region, endangers the Korean Peninsula and may be a key area for the new Cold War.

2023-08-06 16:30

. Jason Lim

'Nothing Compares to U'

Sinead O'Connor has died. As you get older, hearing about the deaths of people that you knew - either personally or as a public figure - is increasingly frequent and marked with only passing curiosity except in certain cases where you feel compelled to pause. This is one of those times.

2023-08-03 16:35

Park Jung-won

The bumpy road toward unification

President Yoon Suk Yeol said that the Ministry of Unification's purpose should no longer be to provide aid to North Korea. Whatever Yoon's true intention, fundamental reform of the unification ministry seems to be inevitable.

2023-08-03 16:30

. John J. Metzler

Russia plays 'hunger games' with global grain supplies

The Russians are acting more and more like the Soviets. Their brutal war in Ukraine underscores the point that Moscow's ambitions are not only military but counter-humanitarian too.

2023-08-03 15:55

. Song Kyung-jin

Sustainable population policy for sustainable growth

On July 25, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its updated World Economic Outlook. It adjusted the global economic growth rate upward to 3 percent from 2.8 percent in its April forecast. The growth rate of the Korean economy for the same period was revised down to 1.4 percent, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from the April forecast of 1.5 percent. Last year, th...

2023-08-01 16:35

Chyung Eun-ju, Joel Cho

Can you believe what you see? Unraveling the illusion of reality in the age of AI

Earlier this year, a photo of Pope Francis wearing a trendy white puffer coat went viral, only to be uncovered as an AI-generated image. From that point on, the discussion of the ethics revolving around the use of AI to generate images of public figures arose, especially considering that thousands of people initially believed it to be true.

2023-08-01 16:30

. Robert Atkinson

Time for Korea-US cooperation to limit China's advanced tech gains

Even if Korea implements additional advanced technology policies, it will be increasingly difficult for Korean firms in advanced industries, like electronics, semiconductors, machinery, and autos, to compete against Chinese firms that are backed to the hilt by the Chinese government. China's innovation mercantilism playbook is to steal or coerce the transfer of technologies i...

2023-07-31 16:35

Lee Jong-eun

Can ROK-US alliance and multilateral security framework co-exist?

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement and the subsequent signing of the ROK-U.S. Mutual Defense Treaty. For the past seventy years, the ROK-U.S. alliance has been a critical framework for South Korea's security. But why did South Korea actively pursue a bilateral security pact rather than a multilateral alliance similar to NATO? To answer this...

2023-07-31 16:30

. Steven L. Shields

AI, big data, and the end of humanity

It happened again this morning. I pressed my bank's smartphone app, and a warning message popped up. “Keep your data safe by updating to the newest app.” Bug fixes, hackers smarter than the programmers, and data breaches are reported all the time. I get similar messages when I go to my bank's website. I access the website a couple of times a month. Each time I log in, I get s...

2023-07-30 16:35

Peter S. Kim

Fine line between investing and gambling

Since the pandemic outbreak, the surge in retail investor participation has led to some powerful price action rarely seen in recent history. During the lockdown, retail investors stuck at home discovered the mobile-enabled stock trading apps that made trading stocks easy as playing video games. The popularity of trading apps combined with the emergence of investment bloggers ...

2023-07-30 16:30

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