Space Internet Competition: AST SpaceMobile Takes on Starlink, Aiming for 2.6 Billion Users with Direct-to-Phone Service Last September, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket carrying five AST SpaceMobile satellites was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Founded by Abel Avellan, a Venezuelan-born American…
한국어 Three months ago, before President Lee Jae-myung’s meeting with Donald Trump at the White House, Trump posted on social media accusing the Korean government of carrying out a purge (of Christians) and trying to start a revolution. It was…
한국어 The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to writers for the breadth and depth of their lifetime achievements rather than for a single book, unlike the Pulitzer or Booker prizes. When the Swedish Academy announced the award for the…
한국어 In the late 1990s, even as the aftershocks of the IMF financial crisis still hung heavily over the nation, President Kim Dae-jung launched a national strategy to transform Korea into an Internet powerhouse. His focus on building fiber-optic networks,…
한국어 The Ambitions of Korean-American Billionaire Michele Kang Among Korean American men, the wealthiest individual is Michael Kim, founder and chairman of the private equity firm MBK Partners, whose estimated net worth is about 10 billion dollars. Among Korean American…
While sharing my thoughts on the Korean alternative rock band The Rose a few weeks back, I mentioned that Korea is producing some fantastic bands. Thanks in part to BTS’s global popularity, folks in other countries are beginning to explore…
