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Lee Jong-eun

Could South Korea play the role of knight on chessboard of international politics?

International politics has sometimes been described as that of a great chessboard. The description has been controversial due to its implicit assumption that weak states are like “pawns” used by the great powers to engage in strategic rivalry against each other.

2023-07-03 16:30

Peter S. Kim

Investors prefer US over China

As we pass the year's halfway mark, it is a good time for investors to reflect on the past six months, laden with a few surprises. So far, the current rally in the stock market is commonly referred to as “pain trade” among professionals who expected the year to suffer further downsides from a looming recession.

2023-07-02 16:30

. Donald Kirk

Risks of comparing Korea, Vietnam

By Donald KirkThe legacy of history is unpredictable, erratic, sometimes generous, more often capricious and jeering.If anybody had told me, when I was a journalist in “South” Vietnam five or six decades ago, visiting the marine press center in Da Nang, the large port city on Vietnam's central coast, that someday a U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier would make a port c...

2023-06-29 16:35

Eugene Lee

US' unfinished involvement in Asia

In several of my previous articles, I continued noting that the United States has unfinished business in Asia. Arguably, in the last 150 years, the U.S. has had a bigger influence on the region than any other big country, like China or Russia. And all of that time it was done under the slogan of the fight for freedom.

2023-06-27 16:30

. Deauwand Myers

Why the full deployment of THAAD in Korea is smart

So many things. Let us first discuss the proposed deployment of American THAAD missiles in Korea. Lockheed Martin, the defense contractor who manufactures the missile defense system for America and many other countries, is not too shy to brag about its system, describing it in its white papers and online in breathy accolades: “The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) i...

2023-06-26 16:35

. Bernard Rowan

Of RVs and a more nomadic way of life

My wife and I visited recently with friends who have retired. They are traveling the continental United States in a comfortable RV or recreational vehicle.

2023-06-25 16:35

. Robert Atkinson

Why KFTC should put hold on proposed Online Platform Act

Korean companies and government policy officials are rightly focused on ensuring that Korea continues its evolution from a fast follower of innovation to an innovation leader.

2023-06-22 16:35

Cho Hee-kyoung

Not every problem is a Gordian Knot

They say that the pen is mightier than the sword but mightier than the pen, it seems, is the mouth of our president. Just with one word from President Yoon Suk Yeol and the whole education establishment has been thrown into chaos. Five months away from the national scholastic aptitude test (SAT), possibly the most important exam that one can take in one's lifetime in Korea, t...

2023-06-21 16:30

. Jason Lim

Mad cows swimming in Fukushima discharge

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) notes in a recent report on the progress of the IAEA Review of Safety Related Aspects of Handling ALPS (Advanced Liquid Processing System) Treated Water at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) that “these findings provide confidence in TEPCO's capability for undertaking accurate and precise measurements related ...

2023-06-20 16:35

. John J. Metzler

Security Council carousel

In one of the more predictable rites of spring at the United Nations, the General Assembly has elected, or actually selected, five new non-permanent members to serve on the powerful 15-member Security Council.

2023-06-20 16:30

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