Random Thoughts about Park Geun-hye, Her Impeachment, and What Comes Next I don’t know which honorific to use to refer to Park Geun-hye anymore. All former presidents, no matter how disgraced they later became, are...
South Korea is Marginalized and that is South Korea's Fault In my latest column for NK News, I talked about how the ROK-US alliance could be severely strained due to the toxic mix of the Trump admini...
President Park Geun-hye has been Impeached! 200 votes were needed to impeach President Park Geun-hye. 234 members of the National Assembly voted to impeach President Park Geun-hye. For...
Populism and Nostalgia: Now it's the Progressives' Turn Considering President Park Geun-hye’s dismal approval ratings , her electoral win for the presidency back in 2012 seems like more than a di...
Trump Did Not Reverse Himself on Korea It is being widely reported in news outlets around the world that President-Elect Trump seems to have reversed himself on various topics. On...
A Trump Presidency and What It Might Mean for Korea “May you live in interesting times.” And what an interesting year 2016 has been. A number of beloved celebrities have died, Brangelina has s...
Park Geun-hye the Pitiful President Park apologized a second time today for the still unraveling Choi Soon-sil scandal. It was a slightly more contrite apology than ...
President Park Geun-hye Should Resign The more details about the Choi Soon-sil scandal are revealed, the more bizarre the story seems to get. From stories of shamanistic priests ...
Constitutional Reform is a Good Idea that Likely Won’t Happen In a surprising political move that reeks of desperation, President Park Geun-hye dropped a political bombshell yesterday when she called fo...