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Tue, May 30, 2023 | 14:33

Why US tech giants need Africa

Why US tech giants need Africa

Last year, Google's Equiano undersea cable began conveying terabytes of data per second to and from African shores. Valued at $1 billion, Equiano stretches from Western Europe to South Africa and has 20 times the capacity of the previous cables that served the continent. According to Google projections, the new cable has the potential to transform Africa's economy by creating...

2023-05-25 16:20

Kim Rahn

Gratitude for safe return

It is the season of school excursions. My 13-year-old daughter also went on a school field trip for three days last week. She and her friends went to a training center situated in the middle of a mountain area in Wonju, Gangwon Province, about two and a half hours away from Seoul.

Kim Rahn | 2023-05-24 17:17

Eugene Lee

What makes it so difficult for Japan to apologize to Korea

Even if it has been a year since President Yoon Suk Yeol's inauguration and the media is trying hard to find his “achievements,” my rationale for criticism has been replaced by something more significant.

2023-05-24 16:10

Macron's Gaullist foreign policy

Macron's Gaullist foreign policy

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year galvanized the West against not only the Kremlin, but also other rivals, especially an increasingly assertive China. But last month, French President Emmanuel Macron headed to Beijing, where he declared that, on sensitive matters like Taiwan, Europe should not simply follow America's lead. The United States was not pleased, bu...

2023-05-24 16:05

. Daniel Shin

Web 3.0: Empowering creators to thrive

Web 3.0 is a blockchain and cryptocurrency-related concept that came into use from 2013. It really took off during the pandemic when early-stage investors and media outlets started pushing the subject along with the related concept of metaverse.

2023-05-23 16:30

. Donald Kirk

Bracing for nuclear war

The gaunt ruin of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial formed a stark backdrop to the G7 summit as leaders of the seven major industrial democracies and observers from other nations met to fend off wars that could trigger the next nuclear conflagration.

2023-05-23 16:30

Will Europe be the world's biggest loser?

Will Europe be the world's biggest loser?

The post-1945 era of global stability is over and gone. From the bipolar world of the Cold War to the American-dominated unipolar world that replaced it, we have long benefited from a sense of strategic order. Though there were many smaller wars (and even some larger ones), from Korea and Vietnam to the Middle East and Afghanistan, the international system remained generally ...

2023-05-23 16:20

. Andrew Hammond

Biodiversity challenge 'flashing red'

This year's International Day for Biological Diversity is perhaps the most important ever with an increasing number of scientists highlighting a sixth great extinction facing the planet.

2023-05-22 16:30

Peter S. Kim

Retail investors prefer financial assets to residential property

Another painful lesson in stock investing was observed last month when Korean retail investors learned a bitter lesson in momentum trading after a group of stocks dropped more than 50 percent in just a few days.

2023-05-22 16:30

High stakes of NATO's Vilnius Summit

High stakes of NATO's Vilnius Summit

With NATO's mid-July summit in Vilnius fast approaching, the question on everyone's mind is how to avoid another debacle concerning Ukraine's prospective membership in the alliance. When NATO leaders addressed the same issue in Bucharest 15 years ago, they failed to reach a credible agreement about how to address Ukraine and Georgia's aspirations for membership. We have all b...

2023-05-22 16:20

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