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Transparency International Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index 2015 (regional results only)
Transparency International’s regional results for Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index 2015 has been released. To which I contributed as a country assessor for South Korea. The full country result is yet to be released but soon. Here’s the result in English. 국제투명성기구의 2015년 국방 분야 반부패 지수의 아태지역 보고서(영문판/한국어판)가 나왔습니다. 저는 한국 국방 분야에 대한 평가자로…
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How corporate-friendly newspaper abused Nobel Prize winner’s work
[box title=”Update (Oct 27, 2015)” box_color=”#777777″]Korea Economic Research Institute—sister organization of Hankyung is going to hold a symposium entitled What Angus Deaton’s winning of Nobel Prize in Economic Science means and Its Implication to Korean Economy on November 3. With the speakers including Jung Kyu-jae and Hyun Jin-kwon. The host, head of the institute Kwon…
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How North Korean state media sounds different in Korean and English
The house that is North Korea doesn’t have many windows. Its representative state media Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) is one of the few windows it has. Beginning North Korea watchers often find themselves astonished by KCNA’s reporting tone. A banquet of grandiose, emotionally charged words—a friend of mine once told me that its choice…
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Tradition, already, was dead dead.
“Do many people still believe in the idea of reincarnation in Asia?” After explaining what the enormous picture on the ceiling, in a great hall of Goetheanum, mean and Steiner’s idea of reincarnation, she asked me, who happened to be the only Asian in the group. “No, they are now out of fashion,” I answered. Although…
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A note for May
Coincidence sometimes can be so uncanny that could be called synchronicity. I lost touch with him after the last meeting in Gwangju, 2011. Out of four year’s muteness, he sent me a message that he’s now living in Germany—while I was in Germany! We met and talked a lot: from (as usual) Gurdjieff and Ouspensky…