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JunYoung So

JunYoung is a U3 student at McGill University, majoring in Economics, and minoring in Law and Math. His writing interests include Korean politics (or East Asian politics) as well as economic law & policy such as the cartel leniency policy.

Power Over Weakness: A Pipe Dream of East Asian Union

JunYoung So Apr 5, 2015

Last Saturday in Seoul, three East Asian nations’ (Korea, China, Japan) foreign ministers agreed to hold summit at ‘the earliest convenient time’, marking a thaw in relations that had been chilled by lingering disputes over wartime…
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One law for the Rich and Another for the Poor?

JunYoung So Mar 6, 2015

A common rhetoric that says that “If Steve Jobs was born in Korea, Apple would not have been existed,” demonstrates one facet of many structural problems in Korea-one of which is cartel regulation. The present situation in Korea looks…
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“On the Verge of Freedom of Expression and National Security”

JunYoung So Jan 31, 2015

A former lawmaker of the United Progressive Party (UPP) Lee Seok Ki’s sabotage plan against the government in the event of war with North Korea initiated the trial on disbanding the UPP. On December 19th 2014, the Constitutional Court…
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