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Mon, May 29, 2023 | 22:00

Is globalization over?

Is globalization over?

CAMBRIDGE - Late last year, Morris Chang, the legendary founder of Taiwan's (and the world's) leading semiconductor producer, proclaimed that “globalization is almost dead.” In a world where supply chains have been disrupted by COVID-19 and the deepening Sino-American rivalry, other commentators have echoed this view, and many companies have begun “on-shoring” and “near-shori...

2023-04-06 16:38

SAT growing irrelevant due to massive changes in education

SAT growing irrelevant due to massive changes in education

Though South Korean spending on extracurricular education surged to record highs in 2022, the material taught to these students may become useless in just a few short years. Standardized tests such as the SAT and memorization-based learning as a whole are losing relevance: the landscape of education in South Korea is being forced to adapt to recent changes in university admis...

2023-04-06 16:20

A new path ahead for Korea and Japan: it's still too early to celebrate

A new path ahead for Korea and Japan: it's still too early to celebrate

There was a summit meeting between President Yoon Suk Yeol and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on March 16. Twelve years have passed since a Korean president visited Japan for a bilateral meeting, and it came only 10 days after the Korean government came up with a solution to the Supreme Court's 2018 ruling on the wartime forced labor issue. With the Seoul-Tokyo relationship at ...

2023-04-06 13:56

Overcoming climate crisis through scientific revolution

Overcoming climate crisis through scientific revolution

Today's climate crisis, according to the cries of young people like Greta Thunberg, is robbing them of their future. No, it is not just teenagers who are being robbed of their future. It will be the future of all our global citizens.

2023-04-05 16:50

Dodgy climate finance

Dodgy climate finance

CAMBRIDGE - Suppose you wanted to impress the entire world with your generosity. Donating a ton of gold to charity would certainly attract a lot of attention. But suppose you had only a kilogram of gold. How would you achieve the same effect? After all, a ton sounds much better - a thousand times better, actually - than a kilogram. In that case, you could say you are donating...

2023-04-05 16:30

Stop playing 'blame game'

Stop playing 'blame game'

Less than a year since attaining power, President Yoon Suk Yeol and his People Power Party (PPP) are seeing a great decline in their approval ratings - an unusual phenomenon for a new ruling bloc, which traditionally should be enjoying a so-called honeymoon period.

Kang Seung-woo | 2023-04-05 13:53

The great revision

The great revision

BERLIN - Did Russian President Vladimir Putin know what he was doing when he ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine last Feb. 24? That decision was a turning point for Europe. For the first time in eight decades, a great land war had erupted on the continent, shattering Europeans' cherished illusions of peace with a force paralleling that of the Russian bombs that have been...

2023-04-04 16:20

Xi Jinping's idea of world order

Xi Jinping's idea of world order

by all accounts, Chinese President Xi Jinping has had a successful few weeks. Hot on the heels of the Chinese-brokered restoration of diplomatic ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia, he used his recent visit to Moscow not only to shore up relations with his close (junior) partner, Vladimir Putin, but also to present a “peace plan” for the war in Ukraine. As The Economist put it...

2023-04-03 16:25

Low key to H1-KEY: Resilience and hope of rising K-pop group

Low key to H1-KEY: Resilience and hope of rising K-pop group

“Yeokjuhaeng” literally means “driving in reverse” in Korean. However, this term has started to make its way into the Korean music scene. It refers to albums that initially do not perform well and are outside of the charts but slowly gain popularity and gradually rise in the charts, eventually reaching the top. For Korean artists, reaching the top of the charts upon release i...

2023-04-02 16:45

Where is Global South's rescue brigade?

Where is Global South's rescue brigade?

Over the last few months, a G7 economy (the United Kingdom), a midsize US bank (Silicon Valley Bank), a small African economy (Ghana), a lower-middle-income South Asian economy (Pakistan), and the fastest-growing global services sector (technology) have all faced short-term cash constraints. Monetary-policy tightening in the United States - where the Federal Reserve raised in...

2023-04-02 16:25

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