International law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced this week the opening of a new office in Tokyo, Japan. The Tokyo office is the firm’s third in the Asia region and will work collaboratively with existing teams in Shanghai, China and
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South Koreans Expected to be Extinct by 2075
By John Kang
So suggests the Korea Herald. The fertility rate (or lack thereof) among South Koreans is owing in part to the class inequality in the country and the demands of an industrial nation-state. South Korea’s low birthrate is generating deep…
Seoul To Slow Down Traffic Signals For Elderly
By Kim Dayton
Via the Wall St. JournalAs South Korea ages more quickly than most other countries on the planet, it’s doing something new to help those in the twilight of their lives: slowing down changes in traffic signals to allow…
Letter From the Editor: Algorithms and Analytics
By Dan Flynn
Most people probably don’t buy more than about one refrigerator every decade or so. This past summer, for reasons too long to explain, I bought a couple of big ones within a couple days of each other. It was after…
Jang: 'The Very Definition of Korean Culture'
By Dan Flynn
We are sitting in one of the thematic conference rooms at the Sempio Foods Company research and development (R&D) center in Osong, south of Seoul, South Korea. Byung-serk Hurh, Sempio’s research director, is drawing a large cooking vessel on a…
South Korea Building National Food Cluster Around New Food Safety Center
By Dan Flynn
Two hours south of Seoul by comfortable and quiet train ride is Iksan City, where the Korea National Food Cluster is being built just east of town. JD Kim, assistant manager for the investment promotion team of the agency for…
Letter From the Editor: Food as Medicine
By Dan Flynn
Writing this week from Seoul, South Korea, where I’ve been the guest of the Korea National Food Cluster known as Foodpolis, the government-sponsored food industrial complex being built east of Iksan. My visit to South Korea actually began with a…
Architecture Moment of the Day: 20 Awesome Urban Bridges
Rich Heap at Future Cities puts together a list of 20 fascinating bridges in city centres.(Image: Banpo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea)
The Transformative Power of Education
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday highlighted education as a powerful tool to advance development worldwide and encouraged academic institutions to collaborate with the United Nations to accelerate progress. Speaking at a UN Academic Impact event in Seoul, Republic of…
New Seoul International Dispute Resolution Centre
As part of South Korea’s ongoing efforts to establish itself as an international arbitration destination to rival Hong Kong and Singapore, the new Seoul International Dispute Resolution Centre opened at the end of May.
The new centre, which has four…