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THE ENERGY crisis in Europe is growing worse day by day. The price of electricity is determined by the price of gas, a shortage of which is currently causing turmoil across the continent. As of September this year, natural gas prices in the spot market[1] increased six-fold compared to 2019[2]. In t
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Aruzhan Aimanshina
2021.12.06 01:51
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IN SEPTEMBER of 2021, Frances Haugen, a former product manager at Facebook, released thousands of documents that implicate Facebook in spreading hate, inciting violence, and contributing to negative body images and suicidal thoughts in teenagers. These documents reveal that Facebook was aware of its
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Qirrat Ahmad
2021.12.06 01:49
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SOUTH KOREA’s first domestically produced rocket took off on October 21 at 5 p.m. local time. The Korean Satellite Launch Vehicle (KSLV)-II was dubbed Nuri, which means “world” in Korean, signifying the possibility of expanding our “world” to space[1]. Nuri was unsuccessful in “reaching the space or
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Shin Soo-min
2021.12.06 01:40
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WITH THE lowered entry barrier for stock investment due to the emergence of new technologies such as smartphones, investing in stocks has become a supposedly profitable hobby even amongst Korean youth. Back in early September, 1.54 million Korean dong-hak ants[1] fell into a state of shock when the
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Shin Soo-min
2021.10.31 21:43
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AFTER STRUGGLING to secure vaccines, South Korea began its inoculation against COVID-19 only in February this year[1], whereas the United States launched its vaccine distribution program in December, 2020[2]. Now, the tables have turned; despite the slow start, Korea has outpaced the United States,
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Aruzhan Aimanshina
2021.10.31 21:43
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CHINA’S MOST recent economic pride and prowess is largely attributed to the competitiveness of its technology companies, specifically its FinTech[1] companies. Compared to their counterparts in the finance industry, these companies had considerably less financial oversight because they are not tradi
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Qirrat Ahmad
2021.10.31 21:43
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THE PRESS Arbitration Law in South Korea has recently been put on the table for amendment, resulting in great controversy. Ranking 42nd in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index[1], the highest among Asian countries, South Korea protects “freedom of the press” to a substantial degree without suppression
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Shin Soo-min
2021.10.10 00:29
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THE FANTASY of reaching space seems closer than ever before for the average person. Space travel used to be the exclusive preserve of astronauts, but the turn of the millennium marked the encroachment of civilians with help from private companies[1]. In the decades that followed, entrepreneurs embar
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Aimanshina Aruzhan
2021.09.03 00:00
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“TERRIBLY SADDENED,” is how Prime Minister Trudeau Justin described his reaction to the recent discovery of 751 unmarked graves in Saskatchewan, the site of a former residential school for Indigenous students in Canada[1]. These graves were found a mere month after the graves of 215 children were fo
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Ahmad Qirrat
2021.09.02 00:00
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THE JAPANESE government recently announced its plan to discharge more than one million tons of contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean. This immense amount of radioactive wastewater is from a nuclear accident that occurred at the Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011. The government has painted its deci
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Ahmad Qirrat
2021.06.06 00:28
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STABILITY IN Chad was precarious at best under President Idriss Déby’s reign. His sudden death exacerbated political turmoil and reignited debates about Chad’s politics. Although Chad is officially recognized as a democratic country with multiple parties and regular elections, the reality is quite d
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Aimanshina Aruzhan, Ahmad Qirrat
2021.06.06 00:27
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CYBERSPACE IS a virtual infrastructure where communication is based on the Internet and computer systems, with increasing influence on matters such as the military, the economy, and technology. As global reliance on software technology grows, however, new threats emerge to take advantage of the comp
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Aimanshina Aruzhan, Lee Ju-won
2021.05.09 01:13
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THE CHINESE electric vehicle (EV) industry is one of the largest manufacturers of EVs in the world, accounting for 1.3 million of the 3.1 million sold globally in 2020 alone. The industry is often lauded as a benchmark for other countries to emulate. Things are not that simple, however. China did no
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Ahmad Qirrat
2021.04.04 15:02
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TRUMP’S INCOHERENT ramblings on Twitter do not amount to much of a foreign policy worth analyzing. However, his administration’s disjointed collection of foreign policy choices does present an interesting point of comparison. It would be easy to assume that with Trump gone, President Biden could res
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Ahmad Qirrat, Lee Ju-ho
2021.03.07 19:08
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ALMOST HALF a year since sexual misconduct allegations against Park Won-soon became public, an investigation launched by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) concluded this January that sexual harassment did occur. After similar allegations within the Justice Party emerged days late
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Lee Ju-won
2021.03.07 18:19
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SOUTH KOREA had been praised for “successfully containing” the virus during the early stages of the pandemic. More recently, however, critics have painted a less rosy picture. While the United States had made plans to develop and purchase vaccines since April of last year, South Korea only began tal
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Park Joo-hyun
2021.03.07 18:19
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COMPARED TO the United States, Korea has been relatively free of irrational fear of vaccines—but that has been changing due to suspicions that the 2020-21 influenza vaccine is causing deaths. Although chances that the influenza vaccine might be lethal are very slim, irresponsible reporting and misco
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Kim Chae-yoon
2020.11.30 03:39
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“FOOD IS A Human Right.” On Downing Street, the residential area of the Prime Minister and the Chancellors of the United Kingdom, educators and students held up signs to criticize the government’s decision to halt a food welfare program for schoolchildren*. The public’s highly negative reception to
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Lee Ju-won
2020.11.30 03:33
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THERE ARE very few things that haven’t changed amidst the pandemic—one of them being the nine to five working hours. Although nationwide implementation of social distancing saw an increase of people working from home and longer childcare leaves to accommodate parents with young children, many still
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Lee Ju-won
2020.11.01 20:04
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"RIGHT THEN and there, I saw two men get their throat slit and fall to their knees for the uniform they wore," narrates Carolina*; what she witnessed reflects what thousands of Colombians have seen during the massacres that occur in the country every year. Although the occurrence of these mass killi
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Park Joo-hyun
2020.11.01 20:00