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[Djoomart Otorbaev] After Afghanistan falls

ViewpointsJul 9, 2021

On July 2, the US military handed over control of the vast Bagram Air Base to the Afghan government. US troops and their NATO allies are now on track to leave Afghanistan by mid-July, well ahead of U...
[Editorial] Due credit

EditorialJul 9, 2021

Moon should shed more light on role of business in Korea’s rise as advanced nation
[Meg Griffiths] Tips for return to post-pandemic life

ViewpointsJul 8, 2021

With millions vaccinated, we have begun to imagine what‘s next. For some, the return to work and school will be a relief. For others, it brings a new wave of anxieties. The American Psychological Ass...
[Lee Kyong-hee] Our humble hero on his anniversaries

ViewpointsJul 8, 2021

Back in the 1980s, new sacks of rice occasionally caught my eye when I visited my mother. “Min-gi grew the rice in Gimje,” she explained. A couple of years later, she said Min-gi was farming in Jeong...
[Editorial] Little changed

EditorialJul 8, 2021

DP presidential contenders recognize failed property policy and yet follow it
[Martin Schram] A 2014 memo explains our 2021 news

ViewpointsJul 7, 2021

Summertime, and the livin’ ain’t easy. News screens keep showin’ How people die. We look away, ’cause we know what we’re seein’. Our pain’s not just knowin’ -- It’s knowin’ why. Newsbreak: Our ...
[Kim Seong-kon] Cultural understanding in business and diplomacy

ViewpointsJul 7, 2021

When I was president of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea, I once held a workshop on cultural differences so my staff could learn and discuss foreign cultures. At that time, I felt it was...
[Editorial] Weakening posture

EditorialJul 7, 2021

Scaling down allies’ joint drill yet again would further embolden North Korea
[Andrew Sheng] Glocalization should be welcomed rather than feared

ViewpointsJul 6, 2021

Why is Marxism thriving in China and not in Marx’s place of birth? Why is Buddhism more practiced in East Asia than in India? Why has Islam more followers outside Saudi Arabia? Ideas and religion sp...
[Editorial] Absurd measure

EditorialJul 6, 2021

Unreasonable to use coal power plant while idling newly built nuclear reactor
[J. Bradford DeLong] Trumpism's analogy to Maoism

ViewpointsJul 5, 2021

How does former US President Donald Trump still command the Republican Party’s complete allegiance? Everyone knows he has terrible judgment and a vindictive, petty personality. Even Trump’s own daugh...
[Bobby Ghosh] Macron, Erdogan suddenly playing nice

ViewpointsJul 5, 2021

While US President Joe Biden took the center stage at his first NATO summit last month and German Chancellor Angela Merkel got some of the limelight for her last such appearance, a little-noticed pie...
[Editorial] Policy coherence

EditorialJul 5, 2021

Concerns rising over fiscal expansion out of sync with monetary tightening
[Chung Mong-joon] Remembering former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

ViewpointsJul 4, 2021

When I heard the news that the former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld passed away, I remembered meeting him in Washington 10 years ago. In October 2011, I visited the former Secretary of Defense R...
[Digital Simplicity] Don’t return the new iPad yet before reconsidering its core functions

ViewpointsJul 3, 2021

Eleven years ago, I was awestruck when I watched the then Apple CEO Steve Jobs presenting the iPad. Since there were some leaks about Apple’s new tablet computer, I was somewhat prepared to witness a...