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SaKong Il talks new book, Xi and Trump at the G-20
“At the 2019 Osaka G-20 summit, U.S. President [Donald] Trump has to get at least a small political trophy [to show off] and Chinese President Xi Jinping has to maintain his dignity.” SaKong Il, the chairman emeritus of the Institute for Global Ec…
June 21,2019
Elderly YouTuber’s wit carries her to stardom
YouTube star Park Mak-rye is enjoying the prime of her life at age 72, as her channel has become a hit for her straightforward and often snappy remarks. Park goes by the handle “Korea Grandma” and has over 900,000 subscribers to her YouTube channe…
June 15,2019
University of Seoul head believes in big data and global campuses
Suh Soon-tak, the president of the University of Seoul (UOS), thinks the school needs to approach big data in a comprehensive way. Suh said he was inspired by the book “Scale” by the British theoretical physicist Geoffrey West. He thought West…
June 15,2019
‘The driving force to amend the Constitution has disappeared’
Lee Bu-young, 77, the chairman of the organizing committee for the International Conference for Peace in East Asia and an independence movement activist, offers insightful analysis of the current administration and its relationship with the North. He…
June 14,2019
Nordic ambassadors talk welfare, North Korea
Transparency and trust in the government are the keys to becoming a successful welfare state, according to Jakob Hallgren, the Swedish ambassador to Korea. He added that if people trust their government, it helps people accept high tax rates, as …
June 08,2019
Game company chair says addiction claim is nonsense
Gaming addiction will eventually be deleted from the disease classifications like how being a transgender was removed from the list of disorders, argues Chang Byung-gyu, the chairman of the board of Krafton, parent company of video game developer…
June 07,2019
Italy is not just about ruins, museums, things of the past
The National Day of Italy, commemorated today, is a day to remember a break from the past, says Federico Failla, ambassador of Italy to Korea. “It was the second of June in 1946 when Italians passed a referendum deciding on the future of Italy,” …
June 03,2019
Excavation expert looks for civilian war remains
Park Sun-joo, an honorary professor at Chungbuk National University, has excavated the remains of around 5,000 people over 20 years. When the JoongAng Sunday met with Park, 71, he was excavating a site with volunteers at a hill beside a national h…
June 01,2019
Choson Exchange founder says North Koreans can be entrepreneurs
North Korean people can be trained to think like entrepreneurs, said Geoffrey See, the founder of nonprofit organization Choson Exchange, which has organized meetings between more than 2,000 North Koreans and international entrepreneurs. One North…
June 01,2019
Social welfare guru extols EITC over wage increases
Neil Gilbert, a world-renowned professor of social welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, thinks Korea’s recent minimum wage increase is a bad idea. He said that he would instead choose to expand the earned income tax credit (EITC). “…
May 31,2019
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