Given heightened tensions and strategic competition in the Indo Pacific, how is South Korea navigating its diplomatic, economic, and security relationships with the US, China, and Taiwan? In a 2023 Joint Statement, US President Joseph Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol “reiterated the importance of preserving peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait [and] strongly opposed any unilateral attempts to change the status quo in the Indo-Pacific…” thereby… Read More

The inaugural annual forum of the Startup Scene: Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow successfully provided a timely intellectual and networking platform for the Korean-American entrepreneurial community in Manhattan, NYC on May 1, 2024. Titled “Changes, Challenges, and Chances in K-Startups amid AI Era,” the forum featured stellar panelists representing the AI experts, venture capitalists, and famous Korean-American entrepreneurs from across the States. They examined the dynamic changes in the startup landscape driven… Read More

Author Photo: Studio Gaga A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in A Magical Girl Retires, a delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga by Park Seolyeon. Our protagonist is a normal girl; that is, a 29-year-old millennial woman drowning in credit card debt and unable to find a job after the pandemic rendered her unemployed. She has no family left,… Read More

In 2024, North Korea’s leadership has made a number of striking changes to its foreign policy, including abandoning its goal of unification and declaring South Korea its “principal enemy.” Pyongyang has also doubled down on its relationship with Moscow, shipping artillery and missiles off to Russia for use on the battlefields of Ukraine. Speculation has also risen that Kim Jong Un may have made the strategic decision to go to… Read More