What, exactly, is real? It’s a seemingly simple question, but philosophers have been thinking on it for millennia. That’s because there’s no right answer.
RNAGene Inc., a South Korean biotech which specializes in the development of mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid)-based therapeutics, announced today that it has signed a Collaborative
South Korean leveraged and inverse (L&I) products’ share of the exchange-traded fund market has dropped since the financial regulator imposed restrictions, including a minimum trading deposit, to guard against risk to retail investors.
Seong Gil Lee, director general of securitised product at Korea Exchange (KRX), says L&I ETFs have been gaining popularity as more Korean investors use them to hedge against market volatility through the coronavirus crisis.
“The Covid-19 pandemic caused substantial market volatility in Korea,” Lee says in an interview with
Asia Asset Management. “But the low interest rate environments created by the coronavirus stimulus packages around the world have encouraged retail investors to move their assets from savings account to stocks or ETFs with relatively high risks.”
Boston’s Korean American community was already reeling, Linda Champion said.
Racist attacks tied to the pandemic were sparking fear within Asian American circles, and Champion, a Black and Korean attorney, said those in the Korean American community had been talking about how they could keep one another safe.
Then in late February, they got wind of a paper from a Harvard University law professor that had angered Korean American students on campus, Champion said. Written by J. Mark Ramseyer, a professor who specializes in Japanese law, the paper argues that Korean women enslaved by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II had chosen to become sex workers, or as the Japanese euphemistically referred to them, “comfort women.”
Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside Johnston Gate Saturday afternoon in a protest organized by the Korean American Society of Massachusetts against Harvard Law professor J. Mark Ramseyer, calling for him to apologize for his recent controversial paper on âcomfort womenâ and for the publishing journal to retract the article.
Ramseyerâs paper âContracting for sex in the Pacific War,â which will be published in the International Review of Law and Economics, stoked international controversy last month by claiming that sex slaves under the Imperial Japanese military, known as âcomfort women,â were voluntarily employed. Many of the comfort women were from Korea, and Ramseyer has faced significant backlash in South Korea since the paper was widely publicized in late January.