Unification Of The Two Koreas: An Economic Approach
Unification of the two Koreas entails an integration of two extremely divergent political systems. As Article 1 of North...
The Mekong River – Environment and Economic Impacts of Dam Building in Southeast Asia
Dam building in Southeast Asia has had detrimental impacts on the environment and economies of communities that rely on...
The Olympics’ Toxic Relationship: Examining S. Korea’s Issue With Food From Fukushima
The Olympics as a Political Platform If you had billions of eyes on you from around the world for...
Will We be Hired? (우리가 취업할 수 있을까?)
지난 1년 동안 교내의 일명 ODAR (Office of Development and Alumni Relations)에서 사무조교로 일하면서 어떤 동문을 학교로 초대할 것인지는...
Nexus between the Tokyo Olympics, Coronavirus, and Politics
The COVID-19 pandemic has been making global headlines. Also commonly referred to as the coronavirus, the rapid spread of...
The Quest for Perfection : Women and the Beauty Myth
In 1990 Naomi Wolf published “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women” to a polarized...
Korean Economic Blues: Can Sticking Together Save us This Time?
I still clearly remember my daily effort to collect discarded papers, even asking my neighbors to share their paper...
True Tales of Korea’s Foreign Labourers
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” -Rudyard Kipling. Indeed, it is impossible to...
The Decade of Acceleration
Senior Editor Joel Petersson Ivre looks back at a decade that promised to deliver humanity to greatness but only...
What 10 Countries in Asia are doing (or not doing) about the Climate Crisis
The effects of the climate crisis on our ecosystems becoming terrifyingly apparent by the day. A fundamental change in...