OPINION
[Kim Myong-sik] Half century from Jeon Tae-il to Cho Kuk
The name of a social activist that I heard for the first time working as a journalist was Jeon Tae-il, a cutter employed by a small-time garment maker in Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon area. The 22-year-old ...
Sept 11, 2019
[Lee Joo-hee] Taking things out of context: The case of LG vs. SK
In our everyday drudgery of overwhelming duties and innate thirst for praise, it is easy to fall into the pit of spontaneous buck-passing when things go south. And such a defensive mode quickly tran...
[Kim Seong-kon] Korea in the eyes of a lawyer/historian
Recently, I came across a book by Lee Seog-yeon, a famous Korean lawyer and civil rights activist, entitled “Sima Qian’s Korea Travelogue.” Sima Qian was a legendary Chinese historian of the Han Dyna...
Sept 10, 2019
[Robert J. Fouser] Politics in age of hysteria
On my way to Seoul in late August, I was looking forward to a break from the Trump-induced hysteria of American politics. My hopes were dashed, however, as the hysteria over Cho Kuk, President Moon J...
[Joe Nocera] Trump administration playing dirty with automakers
The sad degradation of the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division continues. An agency charged with upholding the nation’s antitrust laws, without fear or favor, has become just another tool P...
Sept 9, 2019
[Adam Minter] Time to regulate outer space
Last week, the European Space Agency reached out to warn Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies that one of its satellites might collide with a SpaceX communications satellite. When ESA first rai...
[Peter Singer] Why climb Everest? Don’s set goals on status
In 1953, when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, I was 7 years old. For a time, I was immersed in the stories of the epic climb. It seemed...
Sept 8, 2019
[David Ignatius] Trump unclear on China strategy
As we move into the fall, there’s one overriding foreign-policy priority for America: Find a strategy to deal with a rising China that protects US interests but doesn’t subvert the global economy. C...
[Liam Denning] Ohio’s great Chinese power conspiracy theory
An entity dubbing itself “Ohioans for Energy Security” has a warning for the good people of the Buckeye State: The Chinese government is quietly invading our American electric grid; intertwining them...
Sept 5, 2019
[David Ignatius] US losing information war with Russia
Richard Stengel, a former Time editor who became the State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy, writes that he was once an information “idealist.” He believed that in the marketplace of ...
[Nir Kaissar] Ending inequality is not as easy as it seems
Buried among the storylines about global trade and political intrigue from the G-7 summit last month is perhaps the most noteworthy one of all. Business for Inclusive Growth, or B4IG, a coalition of ...
Sept 4, 2019
[Ana Palacio] Twilight of the global geopolitical order
We live in an era of hyperbole, in which gripping accounts of monumental triumphs and devastating disasters take precedence over realistic discussions of incremental progress and gradual erosion. But...
[Kim Seong-kon] S. Korea should choose Affluent Boulevard, not Poverty Lane
There are many funny street names in the Unisted States. Some reflect positive nuance and idiosyncrasy, while others sound negative and weird. Google provides a host of funny street or road names in ...
Sept 3, 2019
[James Stavridis] Burning Brazil threatens America’s security
When I headed the US Southern Command a decade ago, I took a trip to the Brazilian military’s jungle training site near Manaus in the Amazon River basin. I spent time both in the jungle with Brazilia...
[Robert J. Shiller] The Trump narrative and next recession
US President Donald Trump concluded his remarks at the recent G-7 summit by inviting the assembled leaders to hold next year’s meeting at his Doral country club near Miami, describing a fantasy-like ...
Sept 2, 2019