DR. MOON CHUNG-IN, Special Advisor to South Korean President Moon Jae-in for Foreign Affairs and National Security. He is also a Distinguished University Professor of Yonsei University, Krause Distinguished Fellow, School of Policy and Global Strategy, University of California, San Diego, and co-Convener of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation…
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BEIJING AND SEOUL: OPENING UP SCHOOLS DURING A PANDEMIC
WILLIAM LIGHTHART WRITES — For almost every elementary school, secondary school, and institution of higher learning around the world, the last 4 months have been comprised of exclusively online instruction. Schools at all levels of education are attempting to create systems so that students can return for at least partial…
CORONAVIRUS CHRONICLES: MURPHY’S LAW SAYS …
JAEWON LEE WRITES – It is undoubtedly clear that the COVID-19 outbreak led to nothing but a series of unfortunate events that stripped away my fantasies of life after the Air Force. Just as my mandatory military service was nearing its end, my discharge ceremony was canceled, I could not…
CORONAVIRUS CHRONICLES: ‘THE NIGHT CNN DECIDED TO GIVE ME A HEART ATTACK …’
LUCIA TENSI WRITES – South Korea, 9th of March 2020 sometime around 2 a.m.: “Mom… MOM!… where are you? What is happeninng? Where is Dad? What about Leonardo and Claudio?” “Lucia do not worry, we are fine at home. Your brothers are safe in their houses. You worry about yourself.” It was…
SEOUL: THIRD TIME REALLY IS ANOTHER CHARM FOR VISIONARY YONSEI-LOYOLA MARYMOUNT SKYPE SEMINAR ON INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
ASIA MEDIA INTERNATIONAL WRITES — For the third consecutive year, South Korea’s famed Yonsei University and the USA West Coast’s celebrated Loyola Marymount University concluded a special and most innovative experiment in trans-Pacific international education, From the official AMI statement: “Sustainable and remarkable international education innovation via teamwork between Jennifer…
SOUTH KOREA: DEMOCRACY IS BORN IN ‘1987: WHEN THE DAY COMES’
ELIZABETH SOELISTIO WRITES – “A Death that Cannot be Buried” is written in one of the promotional posters for this South Korean film. But, that sentence is not only a promotion, but a statement of truth when it comes to “1987: When the Day Comes.” Based on the real-life events…
SOUTH KOREA: UNHAPPY ENDING TO “HAPPY SARA” AUTHOR
KATRINA CROSBY WRITES – On Tuesday, September 5, 2017, novelist Ma Kwang-soo was found in the depths of his apartment in Seoul, South Korea hanging from his window pane with a scarf around his neck. Police ruled suicide as the cause of the 66-year-old’s death. Ma was a poet and literature…
SOUTH KOREAN ELECTION: THE BRITISH BROADCASTING CORP. REPORT
Asia Media International proudly takes note of the South Korean election commentary of two of its star colleagues – Prof. Hans Schattle and Prof. Chung-in Moon, both members of the faculty of famed Yonsei University in Seoul. This past Spring semester – and in Spring ‘2016 as well – political…
SOUTH KOREA: MAJOR CONFERENCE AT YONSEI UNIVERSITY
FROM SEOUL, POLITICAL SCIENCE PROF. HANS SCHATTLE ON THE YONSEI UNIVERSITY FACULTY WRITES TO LMU/ASIA MEDIA INTERNATIONAL – “I hope life is good with you at this busy time of year. I wanted to let you know about a conference (see below) taking place in Seoul early next summer –…
LMU/LA: SKILLFULLY SKYPING SEOUL
Pictured above – in triplicate no less!- is well-known Prof. Hans Schattle of the Political Science Dept. of Yonsei University, one of South Korea’s best and always one of Asia’s top-rated universities. The picture was snapped during a recent Wednesday night class in the Life Science Building on the gorgeous…
FROM YONSEI UNIVERSITY IN SEOUL: CONFESSIONS OF A ‘FAILED’ PROFESSOR
Writes Kim Ji-soo of the Korea Times (courtesy of the Korea Times) – Perhaps only someone of Professor Moon Chung-in’s stature can deliver a lecture entitled “Why I’ve Failed as a Professor.” On Tuesday, the 65-year-old political science professor at Yonsei University in Seoul and political brain during the Kim…