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[Clara Ferreira Marques] 'Korean Beatles' can’t buy stock market’s love

Oct 14, 2020

Shares of Big Hit Entertainment, the company behind South Korean boy band BTS, begin trading this week. A top-of-the-range IPO valuation of $4.2 billion implies rock-star earnings multiples. Institut...
[Hal Brands] Little war in Caucasus has big lessons for US and Russia

Oct 13, 2020

Small wars can tell you a lot about the biggest geopolitical and military issues of the day. Consider the present conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. Most Americans have pr...
[Mac Margolis] Bolsonaro’s COVID cash could make Brazil go bust

Oct 12, 2020

Latin America responded ambitiously, if not always efficiently, to the coronavirus pandemic, with many countries spreading cash, credit and tax deferrals to vulnerable companies and households. The e...
[Francis Wilkinson] Republicans have no plan for the future

Oct 12, 2020

When the coherent half of the Republican ticket participated in the vice presidential debate in the US this week, it was an opportunity for viewers to learn what the future holds. Yes, Vice President...
[Digital Simplicity] Crossing the fine line between originality and plagiarism

Oct 9, 2020

Genshin Impact, a free-to-play action role-playing game, is evoking a slew of intriguing questions involving plagiarism in game development and the protection of user data. Since the Sept. 28 global...
[Robert J. Fouser] Hangeul Day beyond South Korea

Oct 9, 2020

Today, Oct. 9, is Hangeul Day, a national holiday in South Korea that honors Korea’s unique writing system. Hangeul Day was celebrated as a national holiday from 1949 to 1990 and again from 2013 to t...
[Jeffrey D. Sachs] The lies that infected Trump

Oct 8, 2020

Unlike tens of millions of people around the world who have contracted COVID-19 because of their poverty, bad luck, vulnerability as essential workers or poor decisions by policymakers, US President ...
[Kim Myong-sik] Virus of deceit infects both government, governed

Oct 8, 2020

Disease control authorities complain that their fight against the coronavirus is most seriously disrupted when people conceal their contact with the sources of infection. These cheaters want to avoid...
[Mohamed A. El-Erian] Trump illness exposes underlying market tension

Oct 7, 2020

Losses in the main US stock indexes on Friday will go down in history simply as small ones in an otherwise choppy week. But assessed in more detail, they provide a remarkable example of the intense t...
[Kim Seong-kon] Things that make us ashamed these days

Oct 7, 2020

Shame, though painful or unpleasant, is an integral virtue of human beings. Human decency and integrity stem from a sense of shame. If we are shameless and brazen, we are no longer human and reduced ...
[Elizabeth Drew] Is US facing next civil war?

Oct 6, 2020

America’s capital is more on edge now than at perhaps any other time since the eve of the US Civil War in 1860. The city was tense during Watergate, of course. But as much as Richard Nixon tested the...
[Therese Raphael] Johnson's case has echoes for Trump

Oct 6, 2020

When Boris Johnson announced on March 27 that he’d tested positive for COVID-19, Brits were in shock, much as Americans were Friday morning when they heard President Donald Trump was infected. The UK...
Belief in mission vital to entrepreneurs

Oct 5, 2020

The world as we know it has changed. I have lived through three different crises in my life. The first one was the Indonesian political turmoil in 1998 that coincided with the Asian financial crisis...
[Andreas Kluth] Europe can have stimulus or rule of law, not both

Oct 5, 2020

More by carelessness than design, the European Union has conflated two of its biggest problems into what last week became one hot mess. To get out of it, the bloc may have to make the Brussels equiva...
[Kim Seong-kon] Learning from inspirational phrases on internet or in films

Sept 30, 2020

Recently on the internet, I came across a rather penetrating passage that says, “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every frag...