How does one handle office politics?
Remember these two points: 1. Wherever there are people, politics is bound to be there. Don't shy away from it and don't worry about...
Cheltenham Poetry Festival 2017
Cheltenham Poetry Festival 2017 will soon be with us, and this year Festival Director Anna Saunders and her team have put together an excep...
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...
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 ...
Private Think Tanks Are NOT Ruining Policy-Making in South Korea
Yesterday, Emanuel Pastreich published a column/op-ed in Korea Expos é , which was titled “ Tanks of Destruction: Private Think Tanks Are ...
What's going on?
In post-Brexit Britain, as political leaders tumble and old certainties are shaken, this is a question I find myself asking more than once e...
Keep That Filibuster Going!
2016 is turning out to be an interesting year. Not long into the new year and we were greeted by North Korea's fourth nuclear test , ano...
