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Blockchain has been around for some time now, yet it still remains mysterious to many. Most people assume it is a disruptive technology to the current monetary system. However, in a vastly digitalized world where data is a valuable, fungible resource that brings endless innovations, blockchain tops the list as the game-changing technology. It can revolutionize nearly all industries such as finance, pharmaceuticals, and entertainment. Furthermore, blockchain can transform all company's value chain activities from manufacturing, logistics to sales.

Among many benefits for adopting environmental, social and governance factors, the two main areas of promise are the blockchain's transformative role in catalyzing corporate Korea toward protocol economy and circular economy. Blockchain can complement platform system by allowing users to equally share the benefits through its encrypted protocol system. Lastly, blockchain is likely to catalyze the circular economy substantially which is based on the three R principles (reduce-reuse-recycle).

Blockchain is the 1990s' internet - It impacts every business activity

For some, blockchain may be an intimidating technology. The price fluctuations in the cryptocurrency market had evoked great social panic due to its scale of volatility. The price bubble hit the large crowd of fast movers severely. The financial experts and policymakers could barely explain the phenomenon, and equivocal economic outlooks only complicated the confusion. Due to these past events, blockchain often resonates with cryptocurrency to many people, which signals a red alert as a dangerous scam.

It's unfortunate that blockchain earned this reputation because it has far greater functionality than delivering monetary value to our world. In fact, blockchain should be considered a foundational technology. It is a digital ledger or recording technology. As every business keeps a record of inventories and transactions, blockchain technology can be used and adopted in nearly all human and business activities such as supply chains, digital contents, patents, smart contracts, governance, and e-voting.

An easy way to understand blockchain is to remember the three keywords: recording, blocks, and chain. Simply put, it is a technology that "records" all transactions that occurred at a point in time into a "block." Each block is then encrypted, hashed, and linked into a "chain." Thus, blockchain is a chained (recorded) data block encrypted by sophisticated computer programs, the artificial intelligence. This AI factor is what makes blockchain anonymous, decentralized, secure, immutable, and less bias-free.

Those who believe in blockchain technology's potentials affirm that we should treat blockchain like the internet of the 1990s. The scale and gravity of the impact the internet had brought were revolutionary. It was a foundational technology that transformed the entire social and business activities. Likewise, the influence of blockchain on people's daily lives and companies will be immense as well. And just as we comfortably use the internet without knowing how the internet technically works, we could be using the technology sooner than we expect.
Blockchain as the enabler of protocol economy
Among many properties of blockchain technology, three unique features are traceability, transparency, and trust(less). These three traits blend in together as benefits of blockchain since the recording feature of blockchain improves information asymmetries, thus allowing members to have equal access to information such as inventories volume, time, quality, or price. Based on blockchain traceability and transparency properties, there is no need for trust.

Regardless of the company size, everyone can equally participate and monitor the process. There is enhanced coordination and control mechanisms among stakeholders while goods and services are mobilized faster and more cost-efficiently. Famous examples include how Walmart and IBM joined in pilot projects by utilizing blockchain to speed up the farm-to-table process for their pork in China and mangoes in the US. Reports show that mango tracking time reduced from 7 days to 2.2 seconds with the blockchain platform.

Another interesting case where blockchain benefits stakeholders is detecting counterfeit products. For example, a London-based digital transparency company called Everledger keeps track of diamond supply chains among other luxury goods and gemstones and confirms the source and location of each item to detect counterfeits.

Similar blockchain platforms in the pharmaceutical distribution segments detect counterfeit pills which cause serious health risks for consumers annually across the world by 10-30 percent. By using blockchain technologies, companies track the pharmaceutical supply chain to prevent such hazards. This type of supply chain management in the health care sector also allows institutional monitoring of medication supply, which is critical in the times like COVID-19.

Although blockchain does not require trust since transaction records are traceable and transparent, it still reinforces mutuality, interdependence, and trust among stakeholders. There is a certain "protocol" which lies at the heart of blockchain technology, enabling information to be shared automatically across the crypto-network securely and reliably. Therefore, the protocol-based blockchain technology functions more fairly than the non-blockchain platforms operated by humans, which can easily become biased and monopolistic.

This is why the South Korean government, with the leadership of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, is actively promoting the Protocol Economy with national ESG goals. In an era where information or data is a valuable resource, platform owners can store and use consumer data to show individualized recommendations and customize advertisements. Utilizing consumer data will equip the company with user-friendly services and help the platform grow exponentially, however this comes at the cost of creating huge entry barrier for others. Blockchain resolves this issue by disallowing exclusive data ownership by the platform owners.

Early in 2021, the South Korean government announced the final approval of the "MyData (personal data transaction)" that uses blockchain technology at its core. Sejong Telecom is planning to expand its business by integrating its BlueBrick blockchain platform with other industry segments such as finance, media, logistics, public sector, health care, and utilities as part of the company's new blockchain platform. For example, BlueBrick's health care platform will allow users to store their medical data more securely, save costs on receiving medical examinations in different hospitals by granting access to the patient's self-medical records, and earn money from selling data. Thus, everyone in the blockchain platform, not only the owner, will benefit from exchanging data.
Blockchain as the enabler of circular economy
An essential theme in ESG is the circular economy, and many companies have embodied this concept into their ESG practices and reports this year. Blockchain technology allows us to trace the lifecycle of goods and services. In addition, as mandates and policies around climate change are enforced with the Paris Agreement fledgling and green initiatives increasing in 2021, businesses are at stake to reduce their carbon footprint.

Blockchain's key features of recording, tracing, and exchanging can be applied directly to track, monitor, and manage waste (reuse-repair-recycle) to reduce carbon emissions and even for carbon trading. For example, companies can allow consumers to access records on which goods or services are purchased from where, along with environment-specific information such as carbon emissions and biodiversity.

Companies can now utilize this information to enhance ESG-friendly consumer habits if data are analyzed more accurately, visualized effectively, and provide pragmatic details and solutions for a sustainable lifestyle. By engaging people to make more sustainable life choices and by helping companies improve their sourcing and recycling practices, blockchain can truly enable social transformation at full impact.

As a nascent technology, blockchain has yet many areas to explore and expand. Blockchain can address environmental challenges such as climate change, biodiversity, and energy scarcity while self-managing its own carbon emission challenge in the future. There will be tremendous potential to ignite ESG in digitally advanced Korea. As an enabling technology, blockchain will change the landscape of our world toward ESG's critical agenda, such as the circular economy, within a matter of time.

Lee Yeon-woo
Lee Yeon-woo is an expert adviser at Korean law firm Bae, Kim & Lee. -- Ed.

By Korea Herald ( koreaherald@heraldcorp.com)

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Blockchain has been around for some time now, yet it still remains mysterious to many. Most people assume it is a disruptive technology to the current monetary system. However, in a vastly digitalized world where data is a valuable, fungible resource that brings endless innovations, blockchain tops the list as the game-changing technology.

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The Seoul Metropolitan Government on Wednesday announced new measures to increase the number of late-night taxis to cope with a worsening cab shortage, after the government lifted social distancing rules last month.

The city plans to add around 3,000 taxis that run from 5 p.m. to 9 a.m., 2,700 of which will be operated by independent drivers, and another 300 from Seoul-based taxi firms.

To secure more late-night taxi drivers, authorities have announced a raft of changes to existing rules, such as temporarily extending the operating hours of late-night taxi drivers to between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. Previously, they could only operate from 9 p.m.

They will also be able to operate seven days a week, including Sundays, which was not allowed previously. Independent taxi drivers, who could only switch from being on day shifts to night shifts once a month, can now swap schedules at any time.

The city government expects the change in rules to boost taxi driver numbers, attracting those who are hoping to make some extra cash by running services at night.

Independent late-night taxi drivers will be able to make an additional 1.5 million won ($1,186) a month, under the extended operating hours, the city government estimated.

Seoul City expects to secure the additional 2,700 late-night taxis by Friday next week.

The extra reinforcements would help bring the total taxis available between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. to around 25,000, which would be enough to cover the current demand, officials said.

The taxi shortage has been exacerbated as the government lifted nearly all COVID-19 social distancing rules last month. An outburst in late-night gatherings sparked an upsurge in demand for taxi rides as Seoul Metro halts operations of subway trains at midnight and late-night buses run at long intervals.

The local taxi industry, which has taken a hit over the last two years because of COVID-19, has struggled to keep up with the high demand.

The city government said the combined number of drivers working at Seoul-based taxi firms decreased by 33.7 percent to 20,640 in March, from 31,130 in January 2019.

To solve the shortage, the Seoul city government first stepped in last month, temporarily lifting operating restrictions on privately owned taxis under which drivers were required to take every third day off.

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Teachers are worried about the effects the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic has on their students, a survey showed, as class disruptions continue to take a toll on educators' well-being.

With the 40th Teacher's Day coming up on Saturday, the Korean Federation of Teachers' Associations conducted a survey on 7,991 teachers at kindergartens, elementary, middle and high schools and universities across the country from April 26 to May 5.

Asked about the worst problem that public education faces in times of the coronavirus, 35.1 percent of the respondents said it was the "lack of face-to-face interaction between students and their peers, reduced social skills and lowered community awareness."

Some 27 percent chose "a loss of learning opportunities for those more vulnerable and a widening education gap," while 21.6 percent picked students' declining academic performance and increased number of students without basic education.

"Since students come to class every other week, there is an awkward atmosphere in the classroom," Heo Yoon-je, a high school teacher in Seoul, told The Korea Herald. "Students usually become friends at the beginning of the semester. This puts the classroom atmosphere at ease and allows smoother interaction between the teacher and students."

The high school teacher explained that many students now tend to ask questions privately after class because they feel uncomfortable speaking up in front of their classmates.

The pandemic has affected not only students but also teachers, according to the survey. At least 85 percent of the respondents said they have dealt with more stress and difficulties than they did before the virus outbreak.

The teachers chose running remote classes and trying to reduce the education gap as the biggest adversities, followed by implementing quarantine measures at school and having more workload related to taking anti-virus precautions.

"Half of teachers are concerned about the education gap and reduced academic ability after the coronavirus," said Ha Yun-su, president of the Korean Federation of Teachers' Associations.

"In order to move toward post-virus education such as protecting students' health and offering customized education, we cannot solely rely on teachers by imposing unlimited responsibility on them," he said. "The government should expand the number of full-time teachers to cut down the number of students per class and reduce the amount of administrative work for teachers so they can put all their efforts into education."

On evaluating the government's education policies in response to the pandemic, such as launching remote classes and providing quarantine support, 43.2 percent said there was a lack of response from authorities, while 32 percent said the government handled the pandemic well.

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Hyundai Motor's first all-electric vehicle Ioniq 5 is set to hit some 90,000 unit sales globally since its launch a year ago.

According to the carmaker on Thursday, the electric midsize crossover utility vehicle sold 88,871 units - 33,212 units at home and 55,658 units abroad - as of March this year.

The Ioniq 5 made its debut in April last year, becoming the first car to be running on Hyundai's own EV platform, called the Electric-Global Modular Platform, or E-GMP.

Symbolizing Hyundai's transition into electrification, its style was inspired by the carmaker's first production car Pony rolled out back in 1974.

The car is also the first in the world to be equipped with the ultra-fast 800V charging capability for a 10-80 percent charge in just 18 minutes. On a single charge, the car can drive up to 429 kilometers, one of the longest in the market.

At home, the car is the best-selling EV, making up 31.59 percent of the total sales of 22,587 units last year.

Its competitiveness has also been recognized globally by winning numerous accolades, including the World Car of the Year by the World Car Awards, German Car of the Year, UK Car of the Year and Auto Express Car of the Year.

"Innovative design, outstanding interior space, and various advanced features are what entices customers to buy Ioniq 5," said a Hyundai official.

By Hong Yoo ( yoohong@heraldcorp.com)

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When the Taliban was last in control of Afghanistan, the world used cellphones for voice calls, the Internet was accessed from desktop computers over copper phone lines, and digital photography was in its infancy.

But within a few years of defeat by the US military in 2001, the militant Islamists who'd once eschewed technology were deploying makeshift surveillance drones and coordinating their political and operational messaging through a network of mobile handsets. The decision to embrace, rather than reject, the trappings of the 21st century went on to become a key to the movement's survival and eventual retaking of the landlocked central Asian nation.

"They moved into much greater technology sophistication by about 2007. It's a sign of the group's capacity to adapt and learn and that's one of the reasons why they won," said Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow and director of the Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors at the Brookings Institution. "One of the things that they learned was to focus on communications, and away from the model of the 1990s, which was to move the country away from any kind of modernity."

The organization originally emerged in the country's rugged, rural heartlands and fought to the top of Afghanistan's power struggles in 1996, advocating a return to the 7th century, when Islam was founded. It envisioned a nation of self-sufficient peasant farmers, ruled under Shariah, and rejected any need for modern technology. There wasn't much, anyway: Afghanistan's development was pulverized during the Soviet occupation and fighting between rival warlords.

Yet by 2007 and deep into insurgency against the Americans, the Taliban were using monochrome flip-phones bearing names like Nokia and Motorola to push propaganda and keep tabs on people. Felbab-Brown recalls visiting Afghanistan around that time, when the movement was sending both mass and targeted text messages. They included reminders to pay zakat (religious tax), and that the group knew where you lived.

One irony is that this broad rollout of telecommunications was enabled by US and international companies, with NATO forces building the pylons that would hold cell phone antennas. Before long, Taliban spokesmen fluent in English were regularly updating Western media directly over text and voice, answering questions, and claiming victory in battles that journalists didn't even know had happened.

The early Taliban were viewed by foreign powers, and perhaps even themselves, as a fast-moving light military force equipped mostly with rifles and RPGs. But with a more modern foe in the US and its allies came the need to add psychological operations. "That's where technology is crucial, there's no way around it," notes Kamran Bokhari, director of analytical development at the Newlines Institute for Strategy & Policy. "Previously they were able to do without it, but after 9/11 the world changed."

The Taliban needed to catch up with innovations on the battlefield, and learned fast. Around 2005, Bokhari recalls, a jerry-rigged drone -- a camcorder strapped to a toy remote-controlled aircraft -- was discovered near the border with Pakistan. And they weren't learning only from their enemies. Fellow jihadists, such as al-Qaida, ISIS and Hezbollah, had discovered the power of digital technologies to recruit members, threaten opponents and control messaging. The Taliban benefited from a cross-pollination of tradecraft in propaganda and information warfare.

These groups followed the arc of technology in the wider world. Early on, they engaged in a cat-and-mouse game of using websites to claim responsibility for attacks and to distribute messages and videos before foreign governments knocked them offline. That gave way to more sophisticated handheld devices and faster networks that meant a video could be shot on a cellphone and emailed directly to supporters or international media. The Taliban and their ilk became early adopters of platforms that made sharing information even easier -- YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Telegram and WhatsApp. A key strategy was to not only win battles, but shape perceptions of strength and capabilities, Bokhari notes. As the US went deeper into its second decade of occupation, the Taliban kept up a steady drumbeat of messaging across all mediums, targeting local Afghan forces and overseas governments. The aim was to create the belief that the movement's ascendancy was inevitable and resistance futile. The perception helped bring US administrations to the table and may have fed the collapse of the military.

Western governments and corporations weren't blind to the online threats. Facebook and Alphabet say they have long-held bans on the group, while Twitter chose to take down individual pieces of violent content. But the Taliban's flexibility in shifting messages and platforms made stamping out all presence impossible.

By the time they took Kabul, the Taliban had upped their presence on Twitter and taken to Whatsapp and text messages to engage with the local populace and outsiders. Spokesmen have used Twitter in recent weeks in an attempt to ease concerns about human-rights violations, forcing US tech giants to reiterate their policies.

"The Taliban is under US sanctions, which means that due to our dangerous-organization policies, we don't actually allow any presence" by them on Instagram or any of the Facebook apps, Adam Mosseri, head of the company's photo-sharing service told Bloomberg Television this week. WhatsApp banned a helpline the Taliban had set up to allow Afghans to report violence and looting.

How long tech companies keep the Taliban off their platforms may come down to US policy. Any hope of controlling the narrative and neutralizing the movement's initiatives will require coordinating with governments and corporations to curb access to technology. But the group's ability to adapt makes a full freeze-out unlikely. Even if the Taliban can't use mass outlets like YouTube, Facebook or Twitter, messaging apps such as Telegram and WhatsApp will remain an option thanks to the point-to-point nature of their service coupled with end-to-end encryption.

The digital revolution doesn't end here. With a vast country to run and disparate groups to placate, a Taliban government will rely even more on information, messaging and perception-shaping. For that, it can learn from the way neighbors like Iran, Pakistan and even China exercise control by censorship and surveillance. The latter, a global leader in facial recognition and artificial intelligence, has already made overtures to the Taliban and is likely to offer aid in the form of infrastructure that could include communications and surveillance capabilities.

Today's Taliban has fought its way back to control over Afghanistan. It'll rely on technology to stay there.

Tim Culpan is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. -- Ed.

(Bloomberg)

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In 2015, two bookworms from the US working as English language instructors in Korea, opened Itaewon Book Club in Seoul, hoping it would be a space to share their thoughts on their latest reads. Six years on, the book club is still going strong, with some 1,800 people from all over the world having trickled in and out over the years.

As the book club's name says, the usual gathering spot before the pandemic had been at one of the well-known pubs in Itaewon, central Seoul. However, the strict social distancing guidelines in place required the club to move their meetings online. Despite the less-than-favorable conditions, a biweekly book club meeting on a recent Sunday that The Korea Herald attended had a pleasant ambience, with discussions oftentimes serious but still joyful and rich.

"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" by Czech writer Milan Kundera was the book chosen for the first Sunday in August.

Ten minutes before the session officially began, members joined a private online video meeting room, where they greeted each other and shared light discussions on how they felt about the novel. A total of five members joined the two-hour session.

The readers discussed a wide range of topics related to the novel -- from guessing the author's motivation for the book, to analyzing the plot. Some 40 minutes into the session, critiques of the characters' personalities and emotions were enriched by the members' own stories.

Members were keen to share their interpretations of the text, and there was no single uniform answer to any of the questions raised during the session.

The "what if" question stood out, prompting discussions on how the story could have unfolded if the stage had been set in other countries during the same era. Different cultures and historical contexts of the members' home countries, as well as their experiences while living abroad, deepened the discussions.

"I guess there is a reason why three coffee shops exist on every street corner, no matter which city you visit," Christopher Jones, 43, the co-founder of Itaewon Book Club, said in a phone interview with The Korea Herald on the adventurous journey of hosting a book club in a foreign country. "People like to sit down, look someone in the eye, and share what they have seen, read, and experienced."

The book club members come from countries across Africa, Europe, North America and Asia. Incorporating stories from their own lives with literature, and examining them from different angles, created treasured moments that Jones and his co-founder, Jonathan Baker, value most.

Jones chooses the books for the biweekly sessions and posts them on the Meetup board as well as the club members' chat room.

"In the first year, members chose books of their own interests. But (sometimes) the person who chose them ended up quitting the club (before the session was held), and some books made others not interested," Jones said.

To fit the original intention of the book club, the two co-founders decided that choosing books as the leader would be the best option.

Unlike most book clubs today that implement strict penalties for non-attendance, which often ends up excluding those who do not participate regularly enough, the Itaewon Book Club does not have policies or obligations to abide by.

"You can show up whenever, and talk about whatever at the club, as long as you follow our one and only rule: 'Do not interrupt when someone else is talking,'" Jones said.

The co-founders learned the importance of the rule through years of experience managing the club. Heated arguments were inevitable every once in a while, but they came to realize that that single rule was what made members feel comfortable and respected throughout the session.

Itaewon Book Club has covered some 80 books so far, with most books demanding more than a single two-hour session, due to the works' length and complexity.

"Our next goal is to expose ourselves in other media platforms, like podcasts for instance, to keep record of the sessions and bring more people into what we are doing," Jones said, adding that anybody is welcome to join the book club, whether they are "hardcore serious readers," or those who simply want to practice their English.

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