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Wed, November 30, 2022 | 10:39

. Jason Lim

Korean Weltschmerz

It was the mid-1990s. It was the first time that I ever went to Korea by myself. It was right after college graduation, and I hadn't been back to Korea since I had left when I was nine years old. Since my family didn't go to church, I hadn't even had a lot of contact with Korean Americans while growing up. But there is something akin to a pilgrimage for a Korean American in w...

2022-11-13 14:03

Kim Sung-woo

2050 Presidential Commission on Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth kicks off

On Oct. 26, the Presidential Commission on Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth officially started its work. Unlike its predecessors, the National Council on Climate and Air Quality and the Carbon Neutrality Committee, the commission has its foundation under the Framework Act on Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth for Coping with Climate Crisis, which came into force last March....

2022-11-13 13:59

COP27 is about Africa and action

COP27 is about Africa and action

After last November's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26), Egypt took the COP baton from the United Kingdom, and now it is hoped that COP27, already hailed as “the first COP for Africa,” will also be a “COP for Action.” I believe these two concepts - delivering pragmatic climate action and putting Africa at the heart of the global climate debate - are ...

2022-11-13 13:58

Troy Stangarone

Going nuclear wouldn't be without costs

Should South Korea acquire its own nuclear weapons? This question tends to arise periodically whenever Pyongyang significantly ups the pace of its nuclear and ballistic missile tests. With North Korea growing increasingly provocative with its ballistic missile tests and adopting a policy that allows for preemptive nuclear strikes, it is not surprising that the issue has surfa...

2022-11-10 13:34

Establishing North Korean human rights foundation for both Koreas

Establishing North Korean human rights foundation for both Koreas

Since the current government came to power, discussions about creating a North Korean human rights foundation have been rekindled. The North Korean Human Rights Act was narrowly enacted in 2016 when the ruling and opposition parties finally reached an agreement, after repeated proposals and rejections over the previous 11 years. According to Article 10 of the act, the governm...

2022-11-10 13:33

Netanyahu's Pyrrhic victory

Netanyahu's Pyrrhic victory

Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud-led bloc of Jewish supremacists, messianic nationalists, and ultra-Orthodox theocrats has won Israel's general election after suffering four consecutive defeats in less than four years. None of these elections was about ideology or policies, but rather about Netanyahu's own fitness to serve as prime minister. Netanyahu succeeded this time for two re...

2022-11-10 13:31

. Robert Atkinson

Beware of tech principles in sheep's clothing

In the last few years, a growing movement has advocated “responsible” technology development and use, particularly for artificial intelligence. With monikers like “human-centered AI” and “responsible technology” these sound, as we say in America, like “motherhood and apple pie.” Who can be against human-centered and responsible technology?

2022-11-10 13:24

Afraid of missing out on Veterans Day?

Afraid of missing out on Veterans Day?

Murphy's Law being what it is, whether you're talking about a surprise party, a romantic getaway or visiting an acquaintance in the hospital, good intentions don't always pan out. The same goes for the intention to carry out a proper observation of Veterans Day.

2022-11-10 13:23

Chyung Eun-ju, Joel Cho

A controversial mission to bring AI to all: a public good or ill?

A prevalent question that has been around for decades is what happens when we have democratized expression? When tackling this question, we found ourselves debating on Stability Diffusion, a generative AI project that has been recently causing controversy, due to its approach to trust the public and make its technology open-source and free to use (anyone can view the code and...

2022-11-09 17:40

. John J. Metzler

UN panel slams Beijing's rights abuses in Xinjiang

A high-level U.N. panel has slammed Beijing's ongoing and egregious human rights abuses in the western Xinjiang regions of the People's Republic. China's human rights violations have been committed through the use of “severe and undue restrictions” that are “characterized by a discriminatory component, as the underlying acts often directly or indirectly affect Uyghur and othe...

2022-11-09 14:29

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