Articles by Lee Yoon-joo
Lee Yoon-joo
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[Margaret Carlson] Surviving sex scandal in the post-Clinton era
Sounding a lot like Bill Clinton, the beleaguered governor of Alabama, Robert Bentley, called a news conference on Wednesday to say in no uncertain terms that he did not have sex with that woman.Accused of having an illicit relationship with an aide, Rebekah Caldwell Mason, he stopped short of wagging his finger. But, in another Clinton parallel, there is readily available evidence that contradicts his denials: Text messages and audio recordings made public by the Alabama Media Group and the gov
Viewpoints March 27, 2016
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[Noah Smith] Patent law holds back scientific progress
One of the biggest stories in science right now is the fight over the Crispr patents. Crispr is a gene editing technique that promises to allow previously unthinkable feats of bioengineering. It was discovered in stages, like most scientific breakthroughs, by multiple teams working at various universities and research institutes around the world. The final, key advancements were made more-or-less simultaneously by two teams of researchers -- one based in California and led by Jennifer Doudna and
Viewpoints March 27, 2016
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[Joseph E. Stiglitz ] The new generation gap
Something interesting has emerged in voting patterns on both sides of the Atlantic: Young people are voting in ways that are markedly different from their elders. A great divide appears to have opened up, based not so much on income, education, or gender as on the voters’ generation. There are good reasons for this divide. The lives of both old and young, as they are now lived, are different. Their pasts are different, and so are their prospects. The Cold War, for example, was over even before s
Viewpoints March 20, 2016
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[Asina Pornwasin] Variety of Internet scams on the rise
While Internet accessibility in Asia continues to expand across tech devices and platforms, so too are the ways Internet scams infiltrate consumers’ personal information. Work from home fraud, Internet auction scams and fake bank email scams are the top three scams in Asia, according to Telenor Group’s recent Internet scams study. The multimarket survey assessed the impact of scams on 400 Internet users aged 18 up to over 65 in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and India, and was conducted to provi
Viewpoints March 20, 2016
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[Michael Hiltzik] A computer is now the master of Go, but let’s see it win at poker
The worlds of Go and artificial intelligence were both unsettled by the victory this week of an advanced AI computer over one of the world’s leading masters of the intricate Japanese board game, 4 games to 1. It’s an achievement that experts in both fields didn’t expect to happen for as long as 10 years. The triumph of AlphaGo, the product of a Google lab named DeepMind, over the fourth-ranked Go champion Lee Se-dol of South Korea, is widely viewed as a landmark in artificial intelligence much g
Viewpoints March 20, 2016
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[Peter Singer] Attitudes to extreme altruism
More than 40 years ago, in an essay entitled “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” I invited readers to imagine that they are walking past a shallow pond when they see a small child who has fallen in and seems to be drowning. You could easily rescue the child, but your expensive new shoes would be ruined. Would it be wrong to ignore the child and walk on? When I ask audiences for a show of hands on that question, they are usually unanimous in saying that it would be wrong to put one’s shoes first.
Viewpoints March 20, 2016
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China needs a new commitment to economic reform
China's leaders have been struggling with the same essential dilemma for some time: They want steady growth and short-term stability, but they also want far-reaching economic reform. Those aims can’t easily be reconciled. Up to now, the government has put growth and stability first and moved cautiously on reform. During the National People’s Congress, which ends this week, Chinese policy makers seemed reluctant to recalibrate. But that’s what they need to do. They should accelerate the pace of r
Viewpoints March 20, 2016
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[Ram Garikipati] Tackle illegal political funding for sustainable growth
With the general election in Korea just a couple months away, a recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development appears to be timely. The report, “Financing Democracy,” takes a comparative approach to examining how the funding of political parties and election campaigns has evolved, and how regulations across OECD member and partner countries have been established. From an economic standpoint, this is important because it shows how the politician-business nexus can ha
Viewpoints Feb. 29, 2016
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[Chris Patten] The closing of the academic mind
I would wager that I have been Chancellor of more universities than anyone alive today. This is partly because when I was Governor of Hong Kong, I was made Chancellor of every university in the city. I protested that it would surely be better for the universities to choose their own constitutional heads. But the universities would not allow me to resign gracefully. So for five years I enjoyed the experience of giving tens of thousands of students their degrees and watching what this rite of pass
Viewpoints Feb. 29, 2016
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[Mohamed A. el-Erian] G20 misses its Sputnik moment
The global economy needed this weekend’s Group of 20 meeting in China to produce a “Sputnik moment.” Instead, and despite growing awareness of the risks to growth and financial stability, the gathering concluded essentially with a reheated version of previous policy statements. This is a far cry from the individual and collective actions that G20 members must take if the global economy is to avoid even more disappointing growth and greater financial instability. Meeting in Shanghai, the minister
Viewpoints Feb. 29, 2016
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[David Ignatius] Apple fights wrong encryption case
Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook is such a respected figure that it’s easy to overlook the basic problem with his argument about encryption: Cook is asserting that a private company and the interests of its customers should prevail over the public‘s interest as expressed by our courts. The San Bernardino encryption case was the wrong one to fight. Apple doubled-down Thursday by asking a federal court to vacate its order that the company create a tool to unlock the iPhone of shooter Syed Rizwan
Viewpoints Feb. 26, 2016
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[David Ignatius] A next-generation battlefield
Little noticed amid the daily news bulletins about the Islamic State group and Syria, the Pentagon has begun a push for exotic new weapons that can deter Russia and China. Pentagon officials have started talking openly about using the latest tools of artificial intelligence and machine learning to create robot weapons, “human-machine teams” and enhanced, super-powered soldiers. It may sound like science fiction, but Pentagon officials say they have concluded that such high-tech systems are the
Viewpoints Feb. 25, 2016
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[Cass R. Sunstein] Democratic presidents’ economic advantage
Donald Trump’s success in the Republican primaries, punctuated by his victory Tuesday in Nevada, has been spurred in part by his deviation from traditional Republican policies on free trade and immigration, and in part by his argument that some of those policies, including lower income taxes and less regulation, would make America great again. But the latter argument runs into an immediate objection. The economy has consistently grown less under Republican presidents than Democratic ones. It is
Viewpoints Feb. 25, 2016
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[Tom Pu-chih Hsieh] Protectionism is killing Taiwan's competitiveness
Le Cordon Bleu and Taiwan’s National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism have been trying to set up a branch of the famous French cooking school in Taiwan since 2011. However, due to protectionism sentiment and bureaucracy on the island, the French chefs cannot show Taiwanese students how to cook and instead can only teach the French language in their classes. Regardless of the investment in buildings, cooking equipment and time and energy the schools have spent over the years, what
Viewpoints Feb. 25, 2016
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[M. Veera Pandiyan] Kill the smuggling routes, not the animals
It is the fourth most lucrative illegal trade in the world and Malaysia is among its thriving hubs. The global black market for wildlife and wildlife products is estimated to be about $20 billion, ranking below drug smuggling, human trafficking and the illegal arms trade. Over the past four decades, more than 50 percent of the world’s wildlife has been wiped out. In the past, extinctions were largely due to loss of habitat by deforestation and destruction of natural environments, but today, it i
Viewpoints Feb. 25, 2016
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