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June 19, 2018 Columnists

[Robert J. Fouser] Trump-Kim summit is another step forward

Reactions to the June 12 summit in Singapore between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reminded me of a popular TV public service announcement in the US in the 1980s. The ...

[Robert Fouser] South Korea’s proactive stance

The news that President Donald Trump had canceled the June summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un shocked South Korea as it was getting ready for bed on May 24. The US leader’s sudden change of...

June 1, 2018
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[Robert J. Fouser] Moon Jae-in’s focus on the big picture

The sight of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un walking across the formal dividing line in Panmunjom to greet President Moon Jae-in amazed the tension-weary South Korean public. After a long day of talk...

May 8, 2018
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[Robert J. Fouser] Managing expectations for the upcoming summits

This Friday President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will meet for the first time. Expectations are running high that the summit will start a process that leads to peace and eventual...

April 24, 2018
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[Robert J. Fouser] Revisiting multicultural policies

The year 2008 is remembered most around the world for the financial crisis that brought on the worst economic downturn since the 1930s. In South Korea, 2008 is remembered as the first year of recentl...

April 10, 2018
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[Robert J. Fouser] The breakthrough NK summits

The announcement of a summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un offers hope for peace on the Korean Peninsula. The summit will follow a meeting in April between Pr...

March 13, 2018
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[Robert J Fouser] The meaning of March 1

Tomorrow marks the 99th anniversary of the March 1 Movement during the darkest hours of Japanese colonial rule. On the afternoon of that day, 33 leaders of the independence movement gathered in Jongn...

February 27, 2018
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[Robert J. Fouser] Moon Jae-in’s pragmatic approach works

North Korea stirs complex emotions, as coverage of the Winter Olympic opening ceremony shows. Most of the coverage naturally focused on Kim Yo-jong, the younger sister of North Korean ruler Kim Jong-...

February 13, 2018
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[Robert J. Fouser] The 2030 generation makes itself heard

One of the best things about teaching in a university in Korea was getting to know the students and learning to see the world through their eyes. My first university teaching experience was from 1987...

January 30, 2018
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[Robert J. Fouser] Improving early English education

The Ministry of Education’s recent proposal to ban the teaching of English in kindergartens and nursery schools brought English education back in the news after a long quiet. Bowing to public pressur...

January 17, 2018
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[Robert J. Fouser] Building on Moon Jae-in’s good first year

South Korea did well in 2017. The year began with insecurity over the impeachment of then-president Park Geun-hye. Her removal from office in March caused a short, but intense, election campaign that...

January 2, 2018
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[Robert J. Fouser] Toward a united, neutral and democratic Korea

During President Moon Jae-in’s recent visit to China, the Korean media focused intensely on the details of protocol and were quick to suggest that the president had not been accorded sufficient respe...

December 19, 2017
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[Robert J. Fouser] Dealing with failing private universities

The year 2018 will mark the beginning of a new era in higher education in Korea, as the number of high school graduates falls below the number of available spaces in university for the first time in ...

December 5, 2017
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[Robert J. Fouser] IMF crisis 20 years later

Most Koreans over the age of 40 remember November 1997 very well. Concern over rising corporate debt in the summer and over the spreading financial crisis in Southeast Asia caused sharp stock market ...

November 21, 2017
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[Robert J. Fouser] Rebuilding the South Korean-US relations

In November 1983, US President Ronald Reagan visited South Korea amid rising global tension. In September that year, the Soviet Union shot Korean Air Lines’ flight 007 out of the air, killing the 269...

November 7, 2017
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