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Here’s an article from the December 20, 2010 issue of the Korea Times: Chinese investor pulls out due to tension By Cathy Rose A. Garcia Some prospective foreign investors are increasingly becoming concerned about the escalating tension on the Korean Peninsula, with one Chinese investor already postponing plans to invest...
I'm reading Under the Loving Care of the Father Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty, by Bradley K. Martin. Here's an account of the composition and first singing of the hymn to Kim Il-sung on his 60th birthday, as told and interpreted for Kim Jong-il's official biographers. Apparently Kim...
I remember where I was when I first heard that the US Space Shuttle Challenger had exploded (in typing class, 11th grade – Lomalinda, Colombia), that the Ceausescu regime had fallen in Romania (backpacking – Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh) and about the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks (living room at home...
The Lost Tribe of China There’s a lot of talk in Korea about the way Korean history is being taught in Japan. The two countries don’t usually see eye-to-eye about Japanese colonial rule of Korea between 1910 and 1945. Lately, the debate around whether or not Japan had an official...
The Korea Business Interview Series continues at Korea Business Central (KoreaBusinessCentral.com). The latest interview was held with Dr. Victor Cha, former Director for Asian Affairs in the White House’s National Security Council and current Director of the Asian Studies Program at Georgetown University. Dr. Cha is author of Beyond the...
We hosted another installment of the Korea Business Interview Series at Korea Business Central a couple weeks ago. This time, our very own Tom Tucker discussed the North Korean economy with author and economist Marcus Noland. Here’s the link to the 29 minute podcast interview: In addition, the discussion at...
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This event is being celebrated around the world as the symbolic beginning of the end of the Cold War. But to Koreans, the Cold War hasn’t fully ended yet as the separation between the two Koreas at the...
Take a close look at the following photo of Kim Jong-Il embracing the Chinese premier in Pyeongyang this week. Considering that the border with North Korea is just a short drive from Seoul (indeed, I used to have a view of the mountains of North Korea from my desk...
After sending yesterday's post to my friend Dan, he replied, "As I suspected – It's quite a different story than the fear-mongering in the news [here in the US]". And that got me to thinking… Interpreting the situation in the North is just not so easy and I was worried...
A friend emailed me today asking for my opinion on the "real" climate in the South Korean community regarding North Korea. I had a little more to say than I expected when I first started replying. Here's what I wrote: Hi Dan, Nice to hear from you. Koreans are so...
