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Wed, November 30, 2022 | 09:37

. Jang Da-wool

Unsung climate villain South Korea

Already three decades have passed since the world decided to tackle global climate change. However, the total amount of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions emitted annually has not decreased, but rather steadily increased since the birth of the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) at the Rio Summit in 1992.

2022-10-23 17:00

. John J. Metzler

UN Assembly elects new human rights guardians

The U.N. General Assembly just concluded its election for 14 new members in the Human Rights Council. Delegates have chosen a conclave of candidates who sit in somber judgment of global freedoms and virtues, though ironically, many of these new members selected are actually among the very abusers and rights violators the Council is presumably monitoring.

2022-10-23 17:00

. Donald Kirk

Act Three for Xi in China

Xi Jinping, the strongest, most enduring Chinese leader since Mao Zedong, opens possibly the climactic act of his rule with his uncontested election to a third five-year term as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, which controls just about everything in China. No, the government does not operate independently of the party. Top government officials are party memb...

2022-10-20 14:21

Korea needs more robots to be globally competitive

Korea needs more robots to be globally competitive

For many years Korea had the honor of leading the world in industrial robot adoption (as share of industrial workers). But that lead is now in doubt, as other nations, especially China, but also Japan and the United States, saw much faster increases in robot adoption in 2021 according to the International Federation of Robotics.

2022-10-20 14:01

. Park Chong-hoon

Managing market expectations will be key

The Korean won continues to depreciate, showing no signs of improvement this year. Starting the year at the 1,190 level, the currency has reached the mid-1,400s to the dollar, down 17.2 percent year to date, largely due to a strengthening of the U.S. dollar. Furthermore, relative to emerging market countries such as India, Indonesia and Malaysia, the Korean won has declined t...

2022-10-20 14:01

Great chips war

Great chips war

In addition to dealing with the fallout from open warfare in Eastern Europe, the world is witnessing the start of a full-scale economic war between the United States and China over technology. This conflict will be highly consequential, and it is escalating rapidly.

2022-10-20 14:00

Reflections on deaths of the queen and my old buddy

Reflections on deaths of the queen and my old buddy

I'm sitting down in front of my study room PC pondering what to write of the recent passing at age 96 of England's Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in U.K. history with over 70 years on the throne, and of my old buddy John Sheridan (at 74), long-time Korea Times columnist, who I originally met in 1982 when both of us worked in Seoul.

2022-10-20 13:48

Lee Hyo-sik

Should government keep buying surplus rice?

Rice means something special to Koreans as the crop been an essential part of the nation's culinary culture for as long as people on the Korean Peninsula have engaged in agriculture. For many years, rice farming used to be the most popular occupation, before the industrialization of modern Korea, as most people lived in rural areas.

Lee Hyo-sik | 2022-10-19 15:02

Troy Stangarone

Potential for US-Korea-EU trilateral cooperation

Earlier this month, the Korea Economic Institute, along with partners in South Korea and the European Union held a conference at George Washing University to discuss the potential for trilateral trade cooperation between the United States, South Korea and the European Union. While there are obstacles to deeper U.S.-Korea-EU cooperation, the general consensus was that there ar...

2022-10-19 14:02

. Ahn Ho-young

2 'dos' and 1 'don't' for Korea and Japan

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a speech at the Japanese Diet on Oct. 3. In the speech, Kishida described Korea as “an important neighbor with which Japan has to cooperate in order to deal with many issues in the international community.” He also said, “Japan will closely consult with Korea, because we have to return our bilateral relations to a solid one and furth...

2022-10-18 18:12

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