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Air pollution in South Korea: a long way to go

By Antony David Antoniou South Korea's air quality is notoriously bad at certain times of the year, specifically winter and spring when citizens...

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Time to ease tensions

By Kang Seung-woo There are no signs yet of efforts in the Yoon Suk Yeol administration to de-escalate rising tensions with North Korea despite...

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aespa: shaping new wave of K-pop and shattering global records

By Kevin Kim Korean girl group aespa is rewriting the rules of K-pop. With their third EP "My World" smashing records, an invitation to the...

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Fundamental solution for Fukushima contaminated water: Atomic stabilization

By Lee Eun-jae Today, the contaminated water problem at Fukushima is challenging the field of science. Fukushima has been pumping in 180 tons...

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How much work is enough?

Anne-Marie Slaughter Autumn McDonald By Anne-Marie Slaughter and Autumn McDonald WASHINGTON, D.C. ― The COVID-19 pandemic might be...

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AI and future of South Korea

By Sean O'Malley The release of ChatGPT last November kicked off a race for artificial intelligence (AI) supremacy among global tech giants. The...

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Creeping toward dystopia

By Robert Skidelsky LONDON ― With investors pouring billions of dollars into artificial intelligence-related startups, the generative AI frenzy...

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Walking our talk on climate action

By William Ruto NAIROBI ― Last year in Berlin, the great Kenyan long-distance runner Eliud Kipchoge broke the world marathon record, clocking...

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World Taekwondo marks 50th anniversary of founding

By Chungwon Choue World Taekwondo (WT) marked the 50th anniversary of its founding on May 28. WT is the organization that administers the...

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Time to ease tensions

By Kang Seung-woo There are no signs yet of efforts in the Yoon Suk Yeol administration to de-escalate rising tensions with North Korea despite...

yesterday 10

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How much work is enough?

Anne-Marie Slaughter Autumn McDonald By Anne-Marie Slaughter and Autumn McDonald WASHINGTON, D.C. ― The COVID-19 pandemic might be...

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AI and future of South Korea

By Sean O'Malley The release of ChatGPT last November kicked off a race for artificial intelligence (AI) supremacy among global tech giants. The...

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Creeping toward dystopia

By Robert Skidelsky LONDON ― With investors pouring billions of dollars into artificial intelligence-related startups, the generative AI frenzy...

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aespa: shaping new wave of K-pop and shattering global records

By Kevin Kim Korean girl group aespa is rewriting the rules of K-pop. With their third EP "My World" smashing records, an invitation to the...

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Fundamental solution for Fukushima contaminated water: Atomic stabilization

By Lee Eun-jae Today, the contaminated water problem at Fukushima is challenging the field of science. Fukushima has been pumping in 180 tons...

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US-South Korea nuclear agreement and its impact on the Korean Peninsula

By Simon Hutagalung The possibility of a nuclear attack by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as well as his promise to "exponentially" grow his...

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World Taekwondo marks 50th anniversary of founding

By Chungwon Choue World Taekwondo (WT) marked the 50th anniversary of its founding on May 28. WT is the organization that administers the...

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Can free and unified Korea create economy aimed toward its youth?

By Emanuel Pastreich It has become a common practice for Koreans trying to explain their country to foreigners to remark that young Koreans are...

25.05.2023 20

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Walking our talk on climate action

By William Ruto NAIROBI ― Last year in Berlin, the great Kenyan long-distance runner Eliud Kipchoge broke the world marathon record, clocking...

25.05.2023 20

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China and India have fewer people than UN thinks

By Yi Fuxian MADISON, WISCONSIN ― In April, the United Nations estimated that India had overtaken China as the world's most populous country....

25.05.2023 20

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Why US tech giants need Africa

Nate Allen Nanjira Sambulli By Nate D.F. Allen and Nanjira Sambuli WASHINGTON, DC/NAIROBI ― Last year, Google's Equiano undersea...

25.05.2023 20

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Macron's Gaullist foreign policy

By Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV ― Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year galvanized the West against not only the Kremlin, but also other...

24.05.2023 20

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Will Europe be the world's biggest loser?

By Joschka Fischer BERLIN ― The post-1945 era of global stability is over and gone. From the bipolar world of the Cold War to the...

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High stakes of NATO's Vilnius Summit

By Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM ― With NATO's mid-July summit in Vilnius fast approaching, the question on everyone's mind is how to avoid another...

22.05.2023 20

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Shifting the inflation goalposts

By Gene Frieda LONDON ― As the most aggressive wave of monetary tightening in four decades slows the world's largest economies, a growing number...

21.05.2023 20

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Kevin McCarthy's embrace of Benjamin Netanyahu ignored his war on Israeli democracy

By Trudy Rubin JERUSALEM ― When Kevin McCarthy visited Israel May 1, he aligned himself with a would-be autocrat who is assaulting Israel's...

18.05.2023 20

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G7 Hiroshima Summit: An opportunity to advance nuclear disarmament

By Hidehiko Yuzaki Hiroshima stands as a powerful symbol of both the devastation of war and the potential for prosperity through peace. It stands...

17.05.2023 20

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Curing our loneliness epidemic

By Tom Purcell There is a loneliness epidemic in the United States, but there are some simple ways we can address it. A few weeks ago, the...

17.05.2023 20

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The Ukraine war and European identity

By Mark Leonard BERLIN ― The European Parliament elections are still a year away, but political parties across the European Union have already...

16.05.2023 20

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North Korean policy for reunification and future of the regime

By Simon Hutagalung The reunification of North and South Korea is a longstanding issue that has been the subject of international debate and...

16.05.2023 20

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2023, exceptional year of 60th anniversary of ROK-EU relations

By Maria Castillo Fernandez Ambassador of European Union to Korea Maria Castillo-Fernandez The year 2023 is a special year for the...

15.05.2023 30

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ChatGPT's lessons for economic development

By Ricardo Hausmann CAMBRIDGE ― Spoiler alert: I am not going to talk about how ChatGPT responds when prompted about economic-development...

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Dilemmas of deterrence

By Joseph S. Nye, Jr. CAMBRIDGE ― We live in a world where geopolitical stability relies largely on deterrence. But how can we prove that...

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Saving Earth from plastic waste

By Lee Eun-jae The oceans are in a state of death. Like the Amazon Rainforest, which have played the role of lungs regulating the climate of the...

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This joint Memorial Day ceremony for fallen Israelis and Palestinians overcame hate

By Trudy Rubin TEL AVIV, Israel ― Memorial Day used to be Israel's most sacred secular holiday because it honored those who died in wars or...

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At 1, Yoon's challenges and responses

By Shim Jae-yun President Yoon Suk Yeol marked the first anniversary of his inauguration, Wednesday. What awaited the prosecutor-turned -head of...

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Silent majority

By Sean O'Malley South Korea is politically polarized. There is no doubt about that. A recent poll by Kookmin Research Group and Ace Research put...

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Recharging Europe's Franco-German engine

By Joschka Fischer BERLIN ― Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Europe has undergone a radical transformation. Both the...

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Sometimes less is more: The most important 26 words of ROK-US summit

By David Maxwell By all measures the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the United States (ROK-U.S.) summit and state visit by President Yoon Suk Yeol...

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The man who made food shopping fun

By Peter Funt When Stew Leonard opened what he dubbed a "dairy store" in Norwalk, Conn., in 1969, it was a wonder of marketing, with a petting...

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How Europe's carbon border tax could help Africa

By Carlos Lopes JOHANNESBURG ― As the European Union pursues vigorous efforts to achieve its targets under the Paris climate agreement, the...

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Let me tell a story about Tucker Carlson

By Dick Polman I want to tell you a story about Tucker Carlson, the serial liar and useful Putin idiot who has now pulled off the hat trick of...

04.05.2023 40

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Thailand: Another round?

By Gwynne Dyer There have been occasional violent episodes in Thai politics and one recent massacre (2010), but the struggle for a genuine...

04.05.2023 40

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On mega-regional trade agreements - why they make sense

By Faisal Ahmed With the United Kingdom reaching an agreement to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership...

04.05.2023 60

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Wisdom of 'Cheugugi' in weather forecasting

By Yoo Hee-dong Korea has long been an advanced country in meteorology, taking changes in weather seriously and making efforts to...

03.05.2023 50

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Korea and US: partners in war and peace

By John Alderman Linton Dr. Hyun Bong-hak, a graduate of Severance Medical College (today, the Yonsei University College of Medicine), is...

02.05.2023 20

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Global health institutions need Africa

By Ahmed Ogwell Ouma ADDIS ABABA ― Public-health policy has adopted an increasingly expansive perspective in recent years, reflecting a growing...

01.05.2023 10

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For Fox News, the cost of doing business

By Dick Polman If we conjure the spirit of Pollyanna, if we look on the bright side of life, we can probably convince ourselves that Fox News has...

30.04.2023 3

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Our transgender friends and neighbors are wide awake

By John L. Micek Let's get a few things out the way right now. Transgender rights are human rights. Transgender women are women. Transgender...

30.04.2023 8

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Korea and India as catalysts for Indo-Pacific era

Following is the keynote address of Dr. Hyun Jin Preston Moon at the recent Global Peace Leadership Conference Indo-Pacific 2023 in New Delhi....

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