Jason Lim

The Korea Times columnist since 2006. Brain, mind, leadership. Biometrics and Digital Identity SME. Views expressed are most definitely my own.

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https://t.co/YBUELpxCIs After nearly 20 years and hundreds of essays, this is the final one I will write for The Korea Times. I did not choose this ending for dramatic effect; it simply arrived, as transitions do, alongside all the others.

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https://t.co/AXJMKfRZNy What happens if the problem is not merely external circumstances, but our attachment to expectations themselves?

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https://t.co/pK20b1pZJ0 Starbucks Korea apologized, the CEO was fired and the controversy reignited a broader discussion about collective memory, historical trauma and the boundaries of humor.

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https://t.co/Aj9lcZ1XpL This is where AI politics becomes inevitable. A future of abundance without distribution is not stability; it is grievance with better tools.

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https://t.co/oaBhANjeP1 In Korea, Valentine’s Day became White Day, then Black Day — a further evolution in a long chain of reinterpretations.

The story continues because we continue to believe it. Like love.

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https://t.co/W0hhZQJmmQ What’s important here is that there are no independent shapes any longer in a fused marriage. What was two is now one; however, marriage is now expected to be a persistent state of 1+1.

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https://t.co/5ref8NLwul What we are witnessing is not simply technological misuse, but the collision of human cognitive vulnerability with a profoundly isolating social structure.

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https://t.co/7eydwJWDIS Cars, once symbols of youthful optimism, now wear the colors of an era marked by pessimism masquerading as calculated pragmatism. If Korea is Hell Joseon, then hell has frozen over in a humorless shade of ice.

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https://t.co/p2phZO9Cq5 What used to be meritocracy based on an individual’s talent and efforts has now become meritocracy based on parents’ resources and support. In other words, meritocracy has become hereditary.

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https://t.co/9W7i5j49ha What is certain is that her existence forces us to reconsider assumptions about creativity. If an AI can deliver a moving performance, does that lessen the artistry of human actors—or does it remind us why human artistry matters all the more?

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https://t.co/QzR2fMlOAe "I get anxious whenever things are going well.” That was the candid confession of a young woman to Ven. Pomnyun, the Korean Buddhist teacher known for his ability to distill life’s anxieties into practical wisdom through his hugely popular 'Dharma Talk.'"

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https://t.co/ydXix6wFha The result is what could be described as a consumerist theater of intimacy. Everyone appears kind, attentive, and harmonious. But when the transaction ends, so does the relationship.

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https://t.co/OJA95JCyLs What was once ephemeral and localized is now persistent and global. The moment is dissected in comment threads, parodied in memes and algorithmically amplified until it becomes a cultural flashpoint.

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https://t.co/VHScJrWq9L Perhaps the illusion is not merely about cognition but about conscience. And perhaps, to think in a truly human sense is to think within a moral framework.

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https://t.co/BhOFp0BCWb More than anything else, death is what makes us human. At its core, grief tech touches on that very humanity: to love, to lose, to remember and to forget.

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@musk_news13 Yes

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Into the new world … separately? https://t.co/TLDLM5x1ZY In Korea, young men and women see the world in fundamentally different ways, both feeling victimized and aggrieved by each other. No wonder they are choosing to not get married. They can barely stand each other.

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'Deny, Defend, Depose' https://t.co/coHKSL6cbR The demand to depose is also a demand for more certainty and fairness in the system that treats each patient as individuals.

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Goodbye Romeo and Juliet; Hello Heathcliff and Catherine https://t.co/OyVSTN8cDW Young men with decreasing economic prospects are facing ever-diminishing chances of even matching on a dating app, let alone actually physically meeting a woman for a date.

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@elonmusk I am an insider struggling with this. How do you innovate and change when the whole system is incentivized for compliance, which is the nature of the government?