How Post FTA Pricing Actually Works in Korea
Updates and Commentaries Coyner’s Comment As booze and babies illustrate in today’s newspapers, the consumer price impacts by the EU & US FTAs may have been blown way out of proportions by both...
View ArticleHoly [dead milk] Cow, Batman! Where are our candles?
Coyner’s Comment: As I often quote Hunter S. Thompson, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.” It is still too early to figure what’s happening in Korea regarding this issue. I have...
View ArticleWith Wal-Mart Claims, Greater Attention on a Law
Coyner’s Comment: Perhaps in a few warped ways, I have a bit of affection for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars American companies from bribing officials overseas. From a nostalgic...
View ArticleNorth Face Isn’t the Issue
Coyner’s Comment: The below is the reworked version of a recent KER message that is in today’s newspapers. Thanks must be given to a KER subscriber/attorney for giving this version a review for legal...
View ArticleR.I.P. to PTA / On back foot after Lone Star threat, gov’t readies team
Coyner’s Comment: Call them PTAs or ISDs, these clauses are critical to international trade treaties. As such, academic criticism and political protests about these mechanisms strike at the core of the...
View ArticleW2 mil. per share for Samsung Electronics myth or foresight?
Coyner’s Comment: Apologies if the reproduced tables are difficult to read, but I’ve hot linked the news article’s URL and I invite the curious reader to follow the link to The Korea Times web site....
View ArticleSamsung tops Apple, Sony, HP as most preferred consumer electronics brand
Coyner’s Comment: Samsung by all accounts is a remarkable success story – albeit with flaws like any other organization. As the below points out, the story is all the more amazing is how fast the...
View ArticleAfter Verdict, Assessing the Samsung Strategy in South Korea
Coyner’s Comment: Observers on both side of the Pacific are trying to digest the back-to-back Apple vs. Samsung court decisions. Almost immediately, everyone seems to have forgotten the Seoul judicial...
View ArticleGangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea’s Music...
Coyner’s Comment: To paraphrase an old saying, “You can always tell a Gangnam-styled young person – but not very much,” since they listen only to their own narrow crowd. While we can rationalize why...
View ArticleMaking the same political mistakes
During the past five years, voters have been regularly reminded of conservatives’ corruption and cynicism. by Tom Coyner Korea JoongAng Daily November 29, 2012...
View ArticleS Korea cuts rates to 2.5% to boost growth – Japan overtakes S Korea in...
If one needs a couple of case studies on the impact of foreign exchange fluxions of trade, here are two sterling examples. Most of the examples may be expected but you may find a minor surprise here...
View ArticleSouth Korea says U.S. must consider global effects of QE exit
The likely reaction by most people watching the global stock markets to South Korea’s below reported intent is “Duh!” Whenever the Fed’s Bernanke says or suggests anything about the eventual stopping...
View ArticleU.S.-ROK transfer delay inevitable
Surprisingly, perhaps, most Korean officers seem quite comfortable with the current arrangement. by Tom Coyner Korea JoongAng Daily July 30, 2013...
View ArticleTime for command transfer is now
In the spirit of giving a multi-viewed perspective on this issue, I’m forwarding the below op-ed piece that advocates immediate wartime control to the ROK. As much as all sides south of the DMZ desire...
View ArticleAsia’s real problem is boosterism
Coyner’s Comment Recently, when Asian senior financial bureaucrats met with their American counterparts in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, they asked the US for better coordination with the Feds future changes...
View ArticleCan Japanese firms compete in global markets?
Coyner’s Comment This is another marketing analysis from my recent find, Beacon Reports. There is some really exceptional stuff there. I have purposely hot linked the URL to encourage web visitors to...
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