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Category Archives: Image of the Week
Image of the Week: US-Korea Free Trade Protests
The issue of free trade is a contentious one in Korea. The passage this past week of the US-Korean Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was a win for the sitting presidential administration and the conservative Grand National Party, but led to … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Economics, Features, Foreign Affairs, Image of the Week, Korea, Politics, United States
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Image of the Week: Incredible Photos from the Seoul Lantern Festival
Normally when I write these Image of the Week posts, I include some snarky comments about random things I have seen/taken photos of in Korea. This week, in unusual form, I am going to avoid making any comments on these … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Features, Image of the Week, Korea
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Image of the Week: Stanford’s Influence in Korea
KAIST (which, like the SAT, officially means nothing, but at one point meant the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) was originally proposed as part of a US Agency for International Development mission back in 1970. That committee was chaired … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Education, Features, Higher Education, Image of the Week, Korea, Stanford
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Image of the Week: The Multifunctional Administrative City™
At one point, Sejong City – the new Multifunctional Administrative City™ of Korea – was going to be the capital of the country. That is not going to happen now, even though dozens of agencies and government ministries are … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Economics, Features, Image of the Week, Industrial Policy, Korea, Politics
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Image of the Week: Finding the Lost Arc in the Strangest Korean Ghost City
Last week, I displayed photos from my trip to Songdo, the new Free Economic Zone city built on the outskirts of Seoul near the Incheon International Airport. As I noted before, the city is something of a ghost town, an … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Features, Image of the Week, Korea
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Image of the Week: Urban Development and The World Without Us
A few years back, I read an interesting and at times provocative book called The World Without Us. In it, the author describes what would happen if humans suddenly vanished from the world, how the world would slowly encroach and … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Economics, Features, Image of the Week, Industrial Policy, Korea
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