viernes, 31 de octubre de 2014

Korea Focus

What does the Presidential Committee for Unification Preparation need to prepare? The 81-member group, which includes 30 academics and eight cabinet ministers, was launched on July 15 and had its first formal meeting on August 7 with President Park Geun-hye in attendance. The second meeting, a workshop, was held in early September, just before the Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving) holiday period, to discuss medium and long-term plans for the committee. It is difficult to judge the committee after only two months, but I can`t help but feel frustrated when I hear about its initial activities.
Politics
Politics
“They have no interest in transforming society. They are interested only in
doing their own work and discovering themselves. They want ‘revelation,’ not ‘revolution.’” This is what Saul Alinsky, an American community...
Economy
Economy
We have an inborn capacity to forget painful past experiences and
become complacent. That is when financial crises creep into an economy. Few developed nations have avoided this process. “This Time Is Different...
Society
Society
The Park Geun-hye administration has finally shifted its direction to back tax
hikes. It is as if the administration has opened a sluice gate. Of course, it should first put out a fire ― a financial shortage caused by the expansi...
Culture
Culture
The main principle of protecting customer privacy is keeping personal information
confidential. However, this principle is based on information being collected and processed on a one-to-one basis. Thus, it’s hard to apply when th...
Essays
Construction of the Kaesong (Gaeseong as spelled in South Korea) Industrial Complex started in June 2003 and the first stage was completed in October 2007, covering 3.3 square kilometers, or 1 million pyeong, near the North...
Previous research on factors that affect life satisfaction has largely omitted the relationship between class consciousness and life satisfaction. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (2013a, 2013...
Features
Features
It seems there won’t be a second “My Love From the Star.” Online video streaming
platforms have played a huge role in the explosive popularity of the hit Korean TV miniseries in China this year. But the drama about an alien fro...
Bookreview
Bookreview
Capitalism is nearly the de facto single economic system accepted and
sustained in the world. In Korea, modern capitalism turned into pariah capitalism once the economic hegemony was channeled away from the market to the...
Interview
Interview
There were many topics I wanted to discuss when I met Professor Ahn
Hwi-joon, 74, chairman of the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation. Topping the list was the current controversy surrounding...
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