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- Associate Prof. of Global Affairs. GMU - Director. Korean Studies Center. GMU - π: https://textvulture.github.io/ - Political Economy. Politics in Asia. #Parenting #Yonsei #Mizzou #ROKAFπ©οΈ #GSW π #AKPS #KPSC
(talking to myself too) Going over time while giving a talk/presentation is rude. Few of us have so many important things to talk about. 15 minutes mean 15 minutes.
Iran fired 1200+ projectiles at 5 countries in the first 48 hours. Most were drones. These saturation attacks aim to overwhelm air defenses and drain interceptors. $20-50K Shaheds vs. $4.19M air defense interceptors put US partners on the wrong side of the cost curve.
People say that this is a precursor of a political chaos. As Yoon will appeal for sure, narrowing the scope could help lighten the sentence in the upper courts. It's df annoying, but I am not as appalled by this as others. A recovery from backsliding ('democratic restoration) is a messy process. 2/2
Yoon is sentenced to life imprisonment. While the sentence itself is not much surprising, Judge Ji (whose political neutrality has been in question all along) pointed only to the deployment of troops to the National Assembly, not really highlighting all other aspects of the failed insurrection. 1/2
kimchi pancake
marinated steamed pork, sooyuk
marinated, stir fried pork, jeyuk
pork barbecue and egg soup
Some of the π₯ I made in the past week.
All I am thinking is that I need to up my paper title game though.
Assigning this gem by @mcopelov.bsky.social & @tompepinsky.com to my grad class. Sold on the title alone.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
WASHINGTON (AP) β Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
Cooked almost all lunches and dinners in the past 6 days. Exhausted the repertoire now.
Someone needs to decompose the rise--how much of this is 1) silver's dual purpose (industrial + precious metal) and 2) speculation/safe heaven.
To be clear, I am just as frustrated as anybody.
The latest democratic resilience of S.Korea (to insurrection) is sort of an outlier, which is why I am working on it.
Not saying they are irrelevant, of course. In fact the *conclusion* of the process is usually thru their negotiation with the outgoing elites.
In many (not sure if most) cases of democratization, the major opposition party joins the resistance very late in the process. Just an empirical statement.
When it seems like something happened and yet the post has been deleted:
In sentencing former Prime Minister Han to 23 years, a South Korean court clearly defined Yoonβs actions as an *insurrection*. There is now no need to refer to it euphemistically as βthe martial law case,β if you ever wondered.
What to know as a national security trial for former organizers of Hong Kong's Tiananmen Square vigil opens Thursday.
We are so not okay.
The first of these has been rolled out. For obstructing arrest, Yoon is sentenced to five years, which is half of what the SP asked for. Word on the ground is that it is too lenient given that he has shown no repentance at all. First of many, anyway.
I probably need to keep track of this. #SKorea
This capture image shows up everywhere and I don't think this was entirely coincidental. The text says "Yoon 'Smiled' When SP Demands Death Sentence and the Court Thrown into Turmoil" all the while Lee-Dakaichi summit was happening.
This is not the only charge that he's being tried on, though. There are others such as interfering with his arrests, corruption, and election law violations just to name a few. As news come out down the road, it's going to be important to see which is for what.
Special prosecutors demand a death sentence for Yoon on insurrection charges. Under Korean law, insurrection entails either the death penalty or life imprisonment. It seems that his consistent refusal to acknowledge wrongdoing led to the former.
Comment sections of news posts in FB are bad. So bad that your confidence in humanity is challenged.
I guess StackOverflow is done.
Things I remain shocked by:
-People in industries like journalism and education that are going to be turned upside down by AI who barely use or understand it
-People in those industries (often the same ones) who still feel comfortable making sweeping claims about AI's capabilities and limitations
All sessions are available in YouTube. Some broadcasters broke them into shorter snippets, like this one here where Lee asks why air-to-air missiles haven't been developed so far while S. Korea grew as a fighter jet exporter: youtu.be/nvbrMJ69j1Q?...
Not only the heads of these organizations attend; rank-and-file admins also show up to fill in details. It resembles an old-fashioned graduate seminar: the prez reviews pre-submitted reports and asks pointed questions as in 'on page 15, it says xyz, but wouldn't abc make more sense?' 2/3
Anybody interested in S. Korean politics or policy might have already been watching this -- the Korean government is currently hosting the National Policy Report Conference. Almost all government branches, government-sponsored projects, institutes, and public firms are subject to it. 1/3
What a week it has been. No, really.
