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Yeonpyeong: Tiny South Korean island watching the horizonSubin Kim BBC News KoreanBBC, 22 December 2019Trump-Kim summitImage caption On a clear day you can see Haeju city in North Korea with the naked eye Two-and-a-half hours by ferry from Incheon, South Korea, is the small island of Yeonpyeong. It looks from the ferry like any South Korean island, until you notice the heavy mi..

from the magazineBarbarians and the CivilizedThe spirit of critical examination remains the West’s best defense against fanaticism and brutality Pascal Bruckner City Journal, Winter 2017 It is by now a familiar cliché, long propagated by Western thinkers and the media, that Europe and European culture are responsible for a multitude of ills. Europeans have been raised to d..

Behavior & SocietyEmotional Words Such as “Love” Mean Different Things in Different LanguagesAn analysis of more than 2,000 languages reveals differences in the way feelings are conceptualized among cultures By Diana Kwon The Science on December 19, 2019 Weltschmerz. Credit: Maria Dubova Getty Images Humans boast a rich trove of words to express the way we feel. Some are n..

On former leper colony in South Korea, hopes grow for Nobel Peace PrizeBy Thomas MarescaUPI, Dec. 17, 2019 Nurses Margaritha Pissarek (L) and Marianne Stoeger (R) treat a patient with Hansen's disease on Sorok Island. Photo courtesy of Marianne and Margareth Association Chung Bong-up and Lee Gong-soon, former Hansen's disease patients, at their home on Sorok Island, South Kore..

Review Essay Unmerited Inequality and the New Elite By Nicholas LemannForeign AffairsJanuary/February 2020 NICHOLAS LEMANN is Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism at and Dean Emeritus of the Columbia Journalism School. His books include Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream and The Big Test: The Secret History..

아시아 네마리 용(한국·대만·싱가포르·홍콩), 어디로 가고 있나 이코노미스트 스페셜리포트 한국과 대만 싱가포르 홍콩은 '아시아 네마리 용'으로 불렸다. 초고속 경제 기적으로 한때 전 세계를 경탄케 했다. 1960년대 초부터 1990년대까지 이들 4개국은 두자릿수 경제성장률을 기록했다..

(1970년대에 1년에 몇차례씩 드나들었던 나라여서 감상이 없을 수 없다.... 팔레비王政에 대한 일부 국민들의 원성이 없지 않았으나, 그대로 유지되었다면 지금쯤 이란은 중근동 의 정치.경제 대국이 되었을 것이다. 시대착오적인 神政이 이나라를 발전시키기는 커녕 오히려 뒷걸음질 치게..

How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition Meritocracy prizes achievement above all else, making everyone—even the rich—miserable. Maybe there’s a way out. Daniel MarkovitsThe Atlantic, September 2019 Issue Daniel Markovits Professor at Yale Law School and the author of The Meritocracy Trap Edmon de Haro Updated at 4:38 p.m. ET on September 4, 2019. In the summer o..

50살된 한국 자존심, 기뻐할 틈도 없다 조선일보 새너제이=박순찬 특파원 김성민 기자 강동철 기자 입력 2019.11.01 03:08 [삼성전자 오늘 창립기념식] 이재용 참석 없이 조용히 치뤄 - 고비마다 과감한 결단이 만든 50년 직원 36명에서 31만명으로 매출액 244兆 세계 15위 - 불확실성 커지는 '앞으..

Paying the Piper Acquiring an acquaintance with nature when capitalism has put its future at risk. By Lewis H. LaphamLapham's Quarterly Winter 2019 The Course of Empire: Destruction, by Thomas Cole, 1836. New-York Historical Society, Gift of The New York Gallery of the Fine Arts. <![CDATA[/* ><!]]>*/ It is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine..