“Don’t Just Run During Games but Look Around While Thinking”
Hong Myung Bo Coach’s (Photo: Krix Min) Hong Myung Bo Coach’s Leadership, “Important to be Considerate of Players Who Don’t Get Playing Time” Hong Myung Bo, the national team’s captain who determined Korea’s semi-final qualification for the 2002 Korea-Japan world cup with his penalty shoot-out. Now he stands as South Korea’s Olympic team head coach […]
Many Dimensions of Perversion and Self-Contradiction
The Top of Civil Service or the Chief Secretary gets a pay packet of Nepalese rupees of 33,000 per month. The Commander in Chief Draws 30,000. But in this vary country, some heads of a commercial bank gets a salary of 1.9 million monthly. Instead of controlling general expenditure, why such things are being done? There […]
Bipolar Perspectives in Asian and American Community Journalism
As I sit down to write this requested little piece, it dawns on me after half a century in journalism and journalism/mass communication teaching in Asia and the United States, that I have essentially lived in two journalistic worlds—the American and Asian. Translating this into community journalism, one can say that I have been exposed […]
DMZ: Land of Life and Hope
There are many places on earth where people cannot dwell in, but Korea has a unique piece of land where no man can live in. It’s not because of pollution or lack of drinkable water. It’s because it is a demilitarized zone, the product of the 21st century cold war, a place where no civilian […]
Meditation on Happiness
The purpose of our life is to achieve happiness; please look at this simple statement, which can be used as powerful tools helping us navigating our daily life’s problems, let us meditate on this purpose in the following few lines: – From time to time, we are facing pivotal decisions that can affect the entire […]
Can China Manage North Korea?
The recent news about the establishment of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) on the Sino-North Korean border has once again attracted much attention to the relations between the two countries. The remarkable prominence of China in North Korean economy has led to a great deal of speculation pertaining to China’s alleged leverage over Pyongyang. It is […]
Asian Market-places Compete–S.African Perspective
Apart from the beautiful and unique tourist attractions and the amazing natural environment, tourists visiting Asia do not only enjoy the scenery, culture and food. Asia is also known as a shopping hub where tourists can stock up on beautiful items of clothing, shoes, jewelry and other crafts to take home, at a fraction of […]
Singapore’s 2011 Election: Its Political Implications
The 2011 Singapore election results was a sobering experience for the ruling People Action Party (PAP), the only Party in power since 1959 and one that Singapore’s populace have grown to equate with government, nationalism and Singapore. This reflection however is not concerned with a critical analysis of why the PAP lost its Group Constituency […]
South Korea, Saudi Arabia need to be open-minded: Chung Un-chan
Former PM of South Korea Chung Un-chan delivered a speech on 6th GCF (Global Competitiveness Forum) organized by SAGIA (Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority) exhorting both countries to be more open . He said that for entrepreneurs to emerge, the mindset of the society has to be open enough to accept new ideas. He said […]
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