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Elon Musk’s America Party: A Disruption or a Symbolic Gesture?

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1. Background of the Founding / 2. Core Ideals and Policy Platform / 3. Current Status / 4. Future Prospects / 5. Projected Impact on South Korea On July 5, 2025, Elon Musk declared the founding of a new political organization, the “America Party.” This announcement came on the heels of rising tensions within U.S. politics—particularly in response to the controversial “Big Beautiful Bill,” growing ideological distance from the Republican Party, and an increasingly public rift with former President Donald Trump. Musk positioned his party as a pragmatic force representing the disenchanted center, aiming to gain strategic footholds in both houses of Congress. Yet despite its bold rhetoric, the movement faces steep institutional, legal, and perceptual barriers, leaving its future highly uncertain. Although the party may not directly impact South Korea, its ripple effects could still shape areas like global technology policy, platform regulation, and alliance diplomacy. 1...

Birth Rate?

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Videos glorifying the joys and fun of raising babies are everywhere. While the intent may be to boost the birth rate, they seem to lack seriousness and sensitivity, which is disappointing. Even when adopting a pet, one must consider whether they have the means and mindset to care for it, and whether they can take full responsibility to the end. Then how much more thought and care should be given when welcoming a human life? The babies who bring such joy and laughter will grow into children, teenagers, and eventually adults. Yet these videos promote only brief moments of happiness, with no regard for the many challenges of living as a child, adolescent, or adult in today’s deeply troubled society. I can’t help but ask: “How many children have you actually raised?” Before promoting childbirth, we must first analyze and improve the reasons behind the steep decline in birth rates. The “next generation” is not just a private matter for families—it’s a collective responsibility of society. I...

Will There Be No Discrimination in an AI-Driven World?

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Eye-Catching Advanced Technologies The tragic death of George Floyd has ignited intense controversy over racial discrimination. Yet, I suddenly had a strange thought—that in the near future, many people might come to miss the world we live in now. A chilly fear passed through me. The point at which a superintelligence, more advanced than the combined intellectual capacity of all humans with normal brains, appears is called the “Technological Singularity.” It is casually presumed—under the guise of expert deliberation—that this will happen around the year 2040. Stephen Hawking, Nick Bostrom, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates (who in 2015 raised alarms that it would be a major threat, but from 2019 began speaking more of its positive aspects, calling it a double-edged sword and saying they would invest—why the change?) have all actively warned of the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. While Elon Musk is pouring all his efforts into developing Tesla cars, he is also working on the Neur...

Bad News About COVID-19

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COVID-19 has flipped the world upside down. Scholars everywhere are passionately—some might say rabidly—announcing the arrival of an entirely new era. And those famous investment experts (yes, the same ones who didn’t see 2008 coming) are now warning of an incoming depression so massive it might make the Great Depression look like a clearance sale. It’s an RNA virus, which means it mutates like a drama queen changes moods. It’s zoonotic, too—capable of infecting humans and animals alike. That means everyone’s a potential host, whether you walk on two legs, four, or have wings and echolocation. Vaccines and treatments? Hard-won, yes. Guaranteed? Not so much. We still haven’t figured out which creature served as the intermediate host between bats and humans. Pangolins? Raccoon dogs? Some are even whispering that this whole thing wasn’t entirely… natural. That maybe, just maybe, some mysterious group had a hand in creating and spreading it. Sounds like a bad movie plot—but here we are. ...