Upon the request of the LSE media team, I had a chance to elaborate on my own thoughts regarding the recent Inter-Korea summit meeting on 27 April, and also the role of the US. The series of videos were released on 30 April, and what I said then still seems to be relevant to the […]
“The Economist house-price indices” https://www.economist.com/…/graphicd…/2018/02/daily-chart-5… The Economist has provided interesting visualisation of housing price index for 27 economies and 20 cities in the US. They have correctly identified that “FINANCIAL media focus most of their attention on stocks and bonds, but the world’s biggest asset class is actually residential property. With an estimated value of […]
Having heard about a talk that I gave at The Hope Institute (see the summary of the talk here; also my contribution to The Hope Institute blog here), an editor of a magazine called Monthly Coffee asked me if it’s alright for them to publish a one-page summary of my talk. Then, I literally re-wrote it, […]
지난 해 10월부터 12월 사이 두 차례 한국을 방문하였고, 지내는 동안 젠트리피케이션을 화두로 많은 만남을 가졌습니다. 앞서 가졌던 고민의 깊이가 더욱 깊어졌고, 답답하고 아픈 현실에 마음 아팠지만 수 많은 실천의 몸짓을 통해 긍정의 에너지도 얻었습니다. 앞으로 해야할 일을 생각하며 신발끈을 다시 고쳐 맵니다. 아래 글은 희망제작소 (http://www.makehope.org) 에 초청기고한 것 입니다. 희망제작소 웹페이지에 게시한 글은 […]
“The excessive amount of money spent on a mega event inevitably sucks up public money to address social needs – and it hasn’t gone unnoticed in Brazil.” Hyun Bang Shin explains why the world’s attention on Rio in the lead up to the 2014 World Cup may reveal more than its government desires.
서울시장 선거 열풍이 지나간지 며칠 채 지나지 않았는데, 재밌는 소식이 들린다. 안철수/박경철의 청춘콘서트, 문재인의 북콘서트 등에 시샘을 냈는지, 한나라당판 청춘콘서트인 ‘드림콘서트’가 개최된다는 것이다 (기사 참조: http://goo.gl/n7Maa). 전국 순회를 하며, 드림멘토와 오피니언 리더를 초빙해서 젊은 대학생들 대상으로 한다는 것. 며칠전 서울시장 보궐선거에서 20, 30, 40세대가 압도적으로 통합야권 박원순 후보를 지지한 것을 보고 충격 받은 한나라당의 몸부림 […]
칠레 수도 산티아고에서의 학생시위가 격화되었나 봅니다 (http://goo.gl/bDeIt BBC 기사 참조). 산티아고에서는 지난 5월 부터 무상 공교육, 교육의 질 개선 등을 내건 학생투쟁이 이어지고 있습니다. 과도한 교육비, 등록금 등이 큰 이유 중 하나로 알려져 있지요. BBC 기사에 따르면 칠레의 경우, 2007년도 기준, 전체 교육비 중 40%가 일반 국민의 주머니에서 나온다고 하는군요. OECD 국가 중 최고치라고 합니다 […]
How to name the sea between the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese islands has been subject to disputes between the concerned governments for some time now. The Japanese government prefers it to be named as the Sea of Japan, and their international dominance during its imperial expansion period from the late 19th century led to […]
Coming across with all the news reports about people’s protests against dictatorship in Egypt reminds me of South Korea’s own history of democratisation movements, which often ended in the bloodshed due to brutal suppression by the military, police or thugs. One major uprising that still haunts people’s memory in South Korea is the violent oppression […]
I still remember the pig that was being taken away from my grandmother’s house when it was sold to a butcher. This was when I was a very small child probably before schooling age. It was a big pig, at least in the eyes of a small child. Several adults had to wrestle with the […]