A friend told me yesterday that I do not exist under “news” on Yahoo, but much of my writing is featured on Google “news.”

I was astonished. Another friend told me that it is a badge of honor to be blocked by Yahoo.

 

here is my news entry on Google

风向新闻

2018-03-10

“#Metoo運動全球遍地開花　男人卻說⋯⋯我真的怕了”

 

“現居韓國首爾的美國學者貝一明（Emanuel Pastreich）解釋了這活動的效應。他表示，#Metoo就像遍地開花的炮火，一瞬間就消失了，「它被拿來操作成『終結某某人的政治或演藝前途』的工具，如今我們沒看到南韓當局對安熙正案展開調查」。

貝一明強調，#Metoo行動甚至沒有強調南韓女性在職場上的實際困境，它描繪的好像是性騷擾只會出現在壞人身上，而非腐敗的系統，因此首當其衝地就是有威望的名人。「#Metoo為女性帶來什麼實質影響？我認為沒有」”

 

https://kairos.news/100402

Korea Times

“Seoul: A Tale of Two Cities”

April 1, 2018

On an overcast February afternoon in 1991 my Korean Airlines flight landed at the dreary Gimpo Airport, and I first set foot in Seoul. The rice and vegetables in a bowl that was accompanied with a toothpaste tube full of red-hot paste had simply been mysterious.

The Koreans’ clothing looked quaintly like something out the early 1970s. The ties looked garish and the collars were enormous. The women had spread on thick mascara and wore dresses in bright solid colors that jumped out at me. The Seoul landscape I saw from the air was dominated by flat concrete surfaces punctuated by rapidly erected five-story buildings.

I had been living in Tokyo as a graduate student for four years, enjoying that pulsating metropolis at the height of the Japanese bubble. I saw smartly dressed Japanese gathering late at night in the posh restaurants that lined Aoyama Boulevard, speaking in excited tones about their new global dominance. 

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“국내외 상황, 조선 말기와 비슷…역사에서 해답”

JTBC 뉴스현장

[직격인터뷰]

이만열

지구경영연구원장 인터뷰

http://news.jtbc.joins.com/article/article.aspx?news_id=NB11611516

[김종혁 앵커]

시작하겠습니다. 이 분은 사실 한국인보다 한국의 역사를 더 잘 아는 외국인이라고 할 수 있습니다. 예일대와 동경대, 하버드대에서 동양사를 공부했는데 95년 서울대서 연암 박지원과 다산 정약용을 연구하기 시작한 이후에 ‘실학 사상’에 깊이 빠져 있는 분입니다. 임마누엘 패스트라이쉬 지구경영연구원장. 한국 이름은 이만열인데 오늘(30일) 이 원장과 인터뷰를 해 보겠습니다. 이 원장은 지금 대한민국의 위기를 실학정신으로 돌파하라고 주장해왔는데, 사실 외국인에게 이런 얘기 듣는 게 좀 쑥스럽기는 하지만 어쨌든 들어보도록 하겠습니다. 이 원장님 어서 오십시오.

 

중앙일보

“게임•성형수술•성매매 문제도 얘기하자”

2018년 3월 30일

임마누엘 페스트라이쉬

 

 

한국에서 달아올랐던 미투운동의 열기가 서서히 가라앉기 시작했다. 지금은 사람들의 관심을 끄는 사건 차원을 넘어 평범한 한국 여성들이 겪고 있는 성희롱 및 성적 학대 대응 방법에 대해 의미 있는 논의를 시작할 때다. 이러한 논의 측면에서 매우 중요한 변화가 있었다. 최근 한국에서는 이주 여성의 성적 학대에 관심을 기울이기 시작했다. 이전에는 이주자들 가운데 특히 불법체류자를 대상으로 자행되고 있는 이 문제가 거의 드러나지 않았다.

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Korea Times

“Getting “me too” right in Korea”

March 25, 2018

Emanuel Pastreich

 

Now that the dust is starting to settle after the hyped up debut of the “me too” movement in Korea, it is time to move beyond attention-grabbing incidents and start to lay the foundations for a meaningful discussion of how we can respond to the concerns of ordinary women in Korea about sexual harassment and abuse.

On the bright side, there has been an extremely important shift in the debate. For example, programs that highlight the sexual abuse of immigrant women in Korea have been produced recently. This widespread problem for immigrants, especially the undocumented, was previously practically invisible.

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I had the chance to see the both touching an brutal film about a 19-year old single mother who tries to survive in the South Bronx working as a stripper. The film was outstanding, and compact. It raised the critical question of whether it is possible to make films and news reports about real life, rather than fantastic PR material. These days, even the so-called progressive media is touched up to avoid the ugly and the cruel. Yet only with such media will be start to confront the truth and launch into a positive cycle.

“Hold Me Down”  is filmed in the locations where the events depicted actually occurred; in the Mott Haven Housing Projects and in an actual brothel, and features a cast of non-actors / women survivors of sexual exploitation and domestic violence.

Produced by More Media (moremedia.tv), The Collectif, and Bob Film Sweden with support from IFP, the Swedish Film Institute and Sveriges Television.

지구경영원

아시아인스티튜트

“한국의 미래 외교안보:

역사적인 전환에 대하여 어떻게 대응 할까?”

2018년 2월 14일

정래권

전 기후변화 대사

정우진 교수

경희대학교

아시아인스티튜트 이사

사회:

이만열 (Emanuel Pastreich)

지구경영원 원장

아시아인스티튜트 이사

Call for a Global response to the oil spill in the East China Sea

 

The oil spill in the East China Sea is evolving into one of the greatest ecological disasters ever to hit East Asia, and it will destroy much of the fragile ocean ecosystem that we so depend on over the next year. This is happening at a time when we are distracted by North Korea and the decay of government, media and other institutions that we previously counted on to respond to this sort of a crisis. We must quickly reinvent citizenship, Earth Citizenship, and reinvent government, real government, to respond to this crisis. It is also an opportunity for the United States to do something that is actually helpful in the region.

We must immediately draft a long-term plan for a global response to this catastrophe which will engage people at all levels of society in Korea, China, Japan the United States and Southeast Asia so that we can create a team to investigate the crisis according to the scientific method and put forth a long-term strategy for first rebuilding the ecosystem, warning citizens of the region of the dangers and helping those whose careers are destroyed. Working with scientists and other experts we will come up with a long-term system to respond and finally lay down clearly that we will move beyond oil and conquer our addiction to fossil fuels in a short period of 2-5 years. We must also change our culture and our habits so that we move beyond consumption and growth and embrace meaningful lives based on the search for truth and to promote cooperation between citizens of the community at the local, national and global levels.

Finally, we must admit that the expensive hardware that the militaries of the region have procured are useless in addressing this crisis. We must decisively redefine “security” for our time, move beyond the limited and confrontational concept of “alliance” and embrace the United Nations charter once again as we move to transform our militaries into transparent and effective parts of society which respond to the ecological crisis, above all, to climate change.

The Earth Management Institute and the Asia Institute invites all concerned citizens of the world to join us in this effort.

Reference

 

Please contact:

 

Emanuel Pastreich

President

The Earth Management Institute

(Director of the Asia Institute)

epastreich@asia-institute.org

https://www.facebook.com/epastreich