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[FOUNTAIN]Golf as political albatross
The attraction of golf is in the harmony of the flight of the ball, created through human skill and the unavoidable winds of fortune. People heading to golf courses become excited from the anticipation of erasing everything from their minds and becoming totally engrossed in nature. In May, golf courses, touched by the season’s blessing, are a display of mature natural beauty befitting the queen month of the seasons. Brilliant solid green hues, …
May 07,2003
[GLOBAL EYE]Why nobody understands us
Is the Roh Moo-hyun government a leftist government? A dispute has risen over the personnel appointed by Mr. Roh to the National Intelligence Service, which is traditionally supposed to be the most conservative government agency of them all. But it is not the political color of the Korean government that is of interest to the outside world. It is the government’s perception of reality. The public concern over dealing with North Korea’s nuclea…
May 07,2003
[CULTUAL DIMENSIONS]Curbing the new totalitarians
Education has become the latest battlefield in the deepening ideological conflict in Korea. Feeling that its time has come, the Korea Teachers and Educational Workers Union has become more active in asserting a liberal, if not left-wing, ideological agenda. The union has moved from advocating teachers’ rights to asserting a liberal interpretation of history and current events in classes. In the lead up to the war in Iraq, special “anti-war” cl…
May 07,2003
[FOUNTAIN]Intelligence reform
U.S. intelligence agencies have experienced three major pressures for reform. The first one occurred in 1941 right after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The second one came in 1991 after the demise of the Soviet Union, and the last one in 2001 after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The first and the third pressures for reform took place after the U.S. intelligence agencies experienced fatal breakdowns, and the second came following the end of…
May 07,2003
[OUTLOOK]For immigrants, persistence pays
There is a European myth about a long-lost relative who emigrated to America to find his fortune. As the myth goes, the “American uncle” always struck it rich, and would one day return to set everything right. The difference is that in the case of Korea, the myth -- or at least the first part of it -- is real. Koreans who began arriving in the United States 100 years ago initially were recruited as strikebreakers on the pineapple plantations …
May 06,2003
[VIEWPOINT]Where’s the Samsung Lions’ line score?
Korean English language dailies are really doing the expatriate a disservice by not offering local sports coverage. As an avid fan of professional baseball in the United States, I appreciate that coverage, but find it nearly impossible to get involved in local baseball because I cannot read and understand the Korean sports dailies. I am ashamed to know the names of only a couple of Korea’s sports stars performing in this country. I have seen m…
May 06,2003
[A LETTER FROM BEIJING]Worse than SARS is fear virus
Well, you know the story. Schools have been sealed off. Hospitals and residential areas are quarantined. At the city’s railway stations and airport, rafts of people are lined up to escape the deadly virus. Most of my expat friends have fled the city. Some of my Chinese friends have stopped going to work because their companies encourage them to work at home. You know this city. It is Beijing. And that’s where I live now. Worse, I live …
May 06,2003
[OUTLOOK]Roh wobbles on a 3-legged perch
Despite South Korea’s exclusion from the Beijing talks, President Roh Moo-hyun has embraced the three-way meeting in Beijing over North Korea’s nuclear program. Fanfare for a “peaceful prosperity policy” was set to ring out, complete with the overhauling of the National Intelligence Service. The talks in Beijing, however, ended in dismal tones, with North Korea admitting that it possesses nuclear weapons. Plans also fell apart in Seoul for Mr. …
May 05,2003
[NOTEBOOK]Pride in ethics is a road to ruin
In March 1993, during his first press conference after being sworn in to the office, President Kim Young-sam emphasized that his political funds were clean. The wave of “ethical politics” launched by the chief executive led to the practice of disclosing the assets of top government officials and policies to make financial markets transparent. The general public, fed up with highly-publicized corruption scandals reaching all the way up the chain…
May 05,2003
[FOUNTAIN]Dressing down
On Oct. 23, 1991, when Kim Young-sam, later to become President, was the chairman of the Democratic Liberal Party, President Roh Tae-woo hosted a dinner at the Blue House in honor of the president of Mongolia, Ponsalmaagiyn Ochirbat. Political leaders from both sides of the aisle were invited, including Mr. Kim. Mr. Kim’s assistant, Kim Ki-soo, who was handling the future president’s schedule, assumed that the dress code would be formal; the …
May 05,2003
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