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  1. A Chuseok Carol

    On The Lee presidency

    A cabinet reshuffle is the strongest and clearest signal a government can send. Whom you appoint says more than any glib promise.

  2. Korea is running through its security inheritance

    On Foreign and security policy

    Korea’s security posture still relies on alliance, diplomatic, and military institutions accumulated under more favorable conditions. Conservative governments failed to renew them; the Lee administration is politicizing them just as Washington becomes less reliable and Beijing and Pyongyang gain room...

  3. The institutions Korea is spending down: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

    On Prosecution reform

    Korea’s ruling camp is spending down institutional capital it did not build and cannot quickly rebuild — packing the Supreme Court on a compressed timetable while stripping the criminal justice system of its second look, just as the public discovers...

  4. Does Pres Lee dream of Putin? - Weekly Kontext

    On The Lee presidency

    President Lee’s constitutional-reform feelers look less like a Putin-style bid to entrench himself than like the familiar last resort of a president whose approval has collapsed — and the leadership Minjoo has just elected leaves him weaker inside his own...

  5. KOSPI 5000, Again; President’s Private Mortgage

    On Economy and markets

    The scorching heat in Seoul continues even as the sun reaches “start of autumn立秋” — but tending my garden yesterday, I could feel the evening cooling down, unlike the day before.