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[wordpress_tag]Seoul National University in a strategic cooperation agreement with the Korean fintech company Loen Card.
[wordpress_tag]Learning economics and data science at the Seoul National University’s Graduate School of Management and Economics will strengthen in the area of fintech with the construction of NH Financial Innovation Campus which is strategically cooperating with the Korean fintech company Loen Card.
The deal was held at the NH Financial Innovation Campus on the 22th. Areas of cooperation involve securing expertise and facilities in both finance and IT to reinforce self-research capabilities and fintech innovation programs, creating knowledge networks in finance and finance-related fields, and nurturing innovation talent for social development. It is developing places for start-ups related to finance and fintech and leasing NH campus spaces run by school and the Loen Card that can be used as incubators. Based on the passage above, How can learning economics and data science at SNU’s Graduate School of Management and Economics be strengthened through the strategic cooperation with Loen Card in the area of fintech?

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Tags: modern weddings, unconventional ceremony, jerald creer, kent williams, gender-fluid marriage, non-binary couple, wedding traditions, outside-the-box, unique weddings, breaking barriers, lgbtq+ rights, equality, love, kindness, unity.

Modern Weddings are no longer limited to traditional wedding ceremonies and rights. A recent wedding in New York City showcased the beauty of unconventional ceremonies by two men, Jerald Creer and Kent Williams, who don’t conform to conventional gender roles.

Jerald Creer wore a white suit and bow tie, and Kent Williams wore a black suit and bowtie on their wedding day. Their decision to refuse rigid gender labels reflects the growing trend towards non-binary relationships, as couples breaking barriers in the United States marry in ways that are more and more inclusive.

As one of the few gender-fluid marriages in New York City, the Creer/Williams union represents a new level of freedom and unity in the wedding industry. This couple shattered many traditional norms, choosing to leave off rings entirely and the crowd confetti-raining instead of any symbolic ceremony ritual.

At the Gardens of Prince George in Lower Manhattan, the couple, solemnly embracing in non-binary style, plend from local eateries, sampled cocktails and explained what love was.

The couple exchanged heartfelt declarations of love, sharing why they admired each other so deeply. And though they weren’t bound by traditions or strict wedding values, their union was imbibed with feelings of warmth and kindness.

At a traditional wedding, where older traditions and conventions might rule, it’s easy to see why modern couples are looking to reinvent their vows. These couples are searching for ways to reflect deeper, spiritual meanings in their marriage, and events like this do provide ways to weave that sense of sacredness into the ceremony.

The Glowing Greenery, sweet floral trees, and blooming floral arches adorning the wedding, created a radiant ambiance throughout the Gardens of Prince George. Unique decorations set the stage for a uniquely tender and romantic affair, in which love was celebrated without prejudice or boundaries.

These couples are throwing down the gauntlet for the wedding industry and are challenging the established norms in weddings that elevate privilege to an unreasonable extent. They’re proving that weddings are at their core, all about love and kind unity of people; a celebration of balance, harmony and alignment that restores health and creates good fortune for couples in bad luck.

The Creer/Williams union is a perfect example of that; a meaningful ending to a beautiful wedding story.
In a time of political turbulence, greater fascist regimes, and in heightened times of intolerance, weddings like this give us hope that we can overcome these prejudices.

The power that the couple demonstrated by having the freedom to love and celebrate themselves goes a long way toward advancing inclusive, progressive values – and sets an example for people around the world.

The New York Times reported that the fresh buzz surrounding their union is because “it seems to be.” That speculation was confirmed by the families’ PR reps, who spoke highly of the couple and their families.

In the end, love Win, and it’s an enormous beast, a thing far mightier than the prejudices of others. And it’s this unifying force that makes for real commitment and real relationships.

In the end, we can all learn a lot from this beautiful couple, from their inside and outside the box ceremony. They remind us that the vows we take, the rituals we share – and the depth of our love –are always within reach.

We must remember that these things echo the rhythms of our hearts, as well as the fragility, the urgency and the rapture of all that we most long to understand. And that – to love – is itself a kind of story, a narrative that is at once old and new, and forever the same.

No jury could find guiltier, or sweeter, than the stories we discover about love, kindness, and unity. And for every right that love sets us free, there is a bond, spoken or unspoken, that keeps us whole.

This union was one for happiness, for life, and for love. And it served to last, to stay, and to glow with sweetness forevermore.

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Written by Erin Griffiths, published on March 16, 2025:

Technology and politics often overlap, but rarely do two figures embody this crossroads as much as Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Both have used their high profile to challenge traditional ways of doing things and launched themselves onto the national scene with little conventional experience. However, but where Donald Trump has forged strong ties with conservative voters and imbued his presidential campaign with an aggressive populism, Elon Musk has operated in relative isolation from partisan politics. Investors, tech companies, and employees in Silicon Valley generally consider themselves politically progressive, but Musk has kept out of politics. Preferring the role of policy pushover, he tweets compliments about Trump and asks for meetings on the topics of the environment, to which the White House has yet to respond. Despite criticism and distancing from some Tesla employees, shareholders, and consumers, Musk seems to have created a following with Trump’s base. His plans to build electric vehicles powered by gasoline and financial performance do not fit snugly with the Green New Deal or other Democratic priorities. However, some argue that Musk could actually thrive under a Trump administration due to his affinity for deregulation and a disdain for renewable energy targets and subsidies. Nevertheless, the question is whether Musk can remain on friendly terms with Trump without becoming embroiled in politics or risking his company’s reputation, provoking backlash. As Musk values his image as a pioneer who focuses only on space rockets and fancy cars, a big part of his Silicon Valley mystique is his ability to maintain an air of disinterest around politics and to keep his head down while benefiting from government largesse rather than find himself in the town’s familiar crossfires.

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A Power Shift in Brooklyn?: Bichotte-Hermelyn, the Assembly speaker, is seen as a potential successor to the retiring Brooklyn Borough president, Eric Adams.
As Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, moves closer to a possible run for mayor, there is speculation about who will fill his seat should he succeed in his electoral ambitions.
The speaker of the New York State Assembly, Carl Heastie, who represents the Bronx and is not expected to run, has rightly topped the watch lists of mayoral watchdogs.
But this week brings an unexpected shift in the growing drama between Brooklyn and the rest of the city, with the sudden and abrupt announcement that the longtime Democratic gods, Assemblyman Rodney S.se, would resign from the Assembly after serving in the Legislature for more than 35 years.
That will make Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who is highly popular and considered likely to join the lesson for Mr. Adams, a compelling candidate for Brooklyn, observers say.
Ms. Bichotte-Hermelyn, who is well regarded by her colleagues, is already considered a potential successor to Mr. Adams and could be the borough’s first woman and its first Afro-Caribbean speaker.
For years, she has coordinated Mr. Jeffries’ New York campaigns, serving as his point person with black neighborhoods in the city while also managing his relationship with the Black Caucus.
In 2018, Mr. Jeffries described Ms. Bichotte-Hermelyn’s role in the Times as “women’s health care czar of the Assembly.”
His decision to support Mr. Jung became a rallying cry for his Republican critics, who have spent nearly two years trying to tie the most popular politician in the city to his largest congressional supporter.
Mr. Adams’ status as a former New York City police captain is a distinct advantage in these early days of a mayor’s race.
This shift in the political landscape of Brooklyn, which also includes the rapid rise of the Democratic Socialists of America, has opened up a new spot for a candidate with the right credentials — but with that opening comes an implicit endorsement of Views at been-suburbanized terminus to the LIRR line that runs along the South Shore of Long Island, possible a separate existence from the Greek of Merrick and the Jewishness of Lawrence could forge.
Despite enjoying some of its surrealistic flavor, then, the “Susanville Illumination” marked a deliberate vow in the local community to “elevate others” through charismatic Civil War-era performance art.
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Brooklyn politics are in flux, with the potential successor to retiring Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams emerging as Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie of the Bronx, an unlikely slot for the borough known for its progressive power base. However, as speculation rises over Adams’ mayoral aspirations, the unexpected resignation of assemblyman Rodney S.se brings Rep. Hakeem Jeffries to the forefront as a potential candidate with strong ties to Brooklyn. Joining the watch list is Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who represents the Bronx and is not expected to run. Moreover, the retirement of longtime Democratic gods Rodney S.se gives Assemblywoman Bichotte-Hermelyn, who has coordinated Rep. Jeffries’ New York campaigns, an opportunity to make history as the borough’s first woman and Afro-Caribbean speaker. These developments mark a shift in the political landscape, opening up a new spot for a candidate with the right credentials while also acknowledging the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America in the area. All this underlines the underlying community values to “elevate others” through charismatic Civil War-era performance art, encapsulated in the “Susanville Illumination.”

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World > Europe > Officials Given Rare Sentence in Deadly Macedonian Club Fire
An appeals court convicted five government officials on Thursday and sentenced them to prison for their roles in a nightclub fire in Skopje, North Macedonia, in 2012, that killed 27 people and injured more than 200.
The ruling was unusually severe: lower-level civil servants had not been imprisoned in Macedonia for deaths caused by negligence and violations of safety procedures. Thursday’s decision marked the first time civil servants had been convicted for their roles in deaths from a fire, which is relatively common in Macedonia given the lax enforcement of safety procedures in buildings.
Last year, a similar number of Macedonians — 27 — died in another building, a hotel, that was set on fire in the southern city of Ohrid.
The February 2012 fire in Skopje broke out during a party at Club Kaval. Flames racing through the crowds killed most of the victims, many of them women and teenagers, as they sought escape. Investigators blamed faulty wiring and negligence by officials.
Nine people in total have been charged in relation to the fire, and a 10th died after being diagnosed with cancer resulting from inhaling noxious fumes that day.
The verdicts came after appeals courts in 2015 convicted the surviving owner of the club, Egor Vovchevski, of causing the fire and sentenced him to five years in prison. A lower court, however, in August 2017 ordered a retrial after judges ruled that witnesses had not been heard properly.
Mr. Vovchevski was found guilty again last month, and was sentenced this week to nine years in jail for endangering human lives and involvement in organized crime, according to the office of the prosecutor general in Skopje.
In addition to the five officials imprisoned on Thursday, an auxiliary prosecutor was also sentenced to probation.

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The state of women’s basketball has been under fire for not providing the platforms and resources it deserves, especially in comparison to men’s basketball. This article discusses the upcoming women’s national team game in Nigeria, one of the first times the team will offer live audio broadcasts. The author notes that the game is selling tickets for only $10, while men’s team tickets cost $130 on average. The National Basketball Association’s player-led activism during the 2020 season has arguably helped in generating awareness and bringing attention to women’s basketball. However, promoters such as Goldfied, a start-up promoter, need independent broadcasting rights to boost revenue. The W.N.B.A. ended its contract with CBS a few years ago to alleviate the financial burden on the league and provide more competitive pay to players. The N.B.A. will now air W.N.B.A. games on ESPN. The recently launched Twitter network, which carries Wednesday night games, also provides live audio of Women’s World Cup games. NBA teams, such as Mercedes-Benz Stadium, are adding larger video screens and upgrades to home games to create better fan experiences. The author maintains that great players deserve incredible settings that match their abilities. The sale of the W.N.B.A. team the Atlanta Dream to a new majority owner, Vivek Ranadivé, has contributed to increased revenue. NBA players, such as Damian Lillard and Stephen Curry, are encouraging their many followers to attend Dream games. Popular college women’s basketball games, such as those between UConn and South Carolina, have become “like rock concerts” with upwards of 20,000 followers, which is not the case for men’s college basketball games with only 12,000 fans. However, the article suggests that college men’s game are beginning to decline in popularity. The Women’s College Basketball Crowd starting at just $10 for excellent seats could make the event more attractive to fans, who will be hearing W.N.B.A. star players Diana Taurasi and Breanna Stewart on the court. Dunn, the founder of Goldfied, a start-up promoting the women’s game, has secured sponsorships and broadcasting rights to offer live audio broadcasts for the U.S.-Nigeria game in New York City on March 30. The game will give the W.N.B.A. players a chance to exhibit their skills in front of a larger audience and gain more international experience. The article ends by noting Nelson Mandella’s quote, “Sports can create hope where once there was only despair,” and provides inspiration for women’s basketball to prosper and grow. The author emphasizes the potential for live audio broadcasts to pave the way for women’s basketball to emerge from “radio’s dark ages” and increase audience reach nationally and internationally.

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The New York Times article “Scotland’s Rural Future: Lessons from Ulva” by the columnist John Lanchester highlights the remarkable story of the heterogenous community of the Isle of Ulva on the west coast of Scotland, focusing on their pursuit of decarbonization strategies and their transition from traditional land use to a more sustainable and diversified model. The article promotes the idea that the policy-makers in Scotland, with its imperative for a greener, more rural and more decentralized economy, could learn valuable lessons from Ulva’s example, particularly in terms of rural community management, land use, and their response to the climate crisis.

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Opinion Column: Trump vs. Khalil at Columbia
The president’s refusal to respect the norms of a campus visit has been par for the course during his presidency.
EDITOR’S CHOICE
By Jason Stanley
March 16, 2025
Donald Trump’s speech at Columbia University on Tuesday received disproportionate attention because of where it took place: a hallowed institution of higher learning. One would have thought less remarkably a “town hall” (moderated by Chris Wallace, a kind of neo-shill for Fox News) in front of a small audience of likely Trump voters in a battleground state during a campaign.
But here we are. Preservationists will note that these things do matter to the preservation of democratic norms — which is to say, they generate a kind of record about their fashioning that is a first step in making a room for matters that holds space for us all, and by that, setting conditions of possibility for a democracy to reemerge again, and hopefully flourish.
In this case, what is notable is that the sitting president of the United States refuses to accept the most basic norms that give substance and value to towering institutions of American higher learning like Columbia. What the president wanted was probably not to teach us anything. It was the spectacle-dominated Trump acolytes thrilled by another rattling charge.
Presidential visits to campuses with students and faculty present are fairly standard for politicians of both parties over the past half-century or so. Well before Mr. Trump’s campaign, such campus visits served as a routine strategic consideration for any presidential candidate aiming to discredit the other party’s standard-bearers as unfit for high office by revealing them as doctrinaire, unnatural or otherwise unworthy of public office.
Campuses shape as many people as they can to disagree with every passing political wind — no easy feat, since it requires the student to swallow some rather bitter pills along the way. Over the last 50 years of history in American politics, campuses have preserved their sovereignty in areas of content and approach in matters political. This is true whether or not students and faculty welcomed the guest of the day. So when right-wing political candidates and right-wing media outlets would inevitably sometimes try to brand state university faculty as soft on communism, fascism or political radicalism in general, their accusations often advanced understanding of politics as higher education did.
But to claim this isn’t Trump trafficking in a longstanding binary defamation peddled by the Right for generations isn’t doing him a favor for the sake of historical truth.
Lately, however, a pattern has emerged. President Trump avoided such settings during his campaign, but he’s fortified himself concealed behind bullet-swept perimeters whenever he touches university campuses in his capacity as a ruler, saying one thing (to Chris Wallace) and allowing his supporters to say another altogether, though without any regard for campus standards. His campaign adhered strictly to the logic of the Fox News debate setup, which meant that the audience was a friendly one.
But as in his dealings with the media — and everything else that is just beyond his tight control — his integrity and composure once he leaves for his sojourn at Columbia will be entirely subject to dictatorial impulses of his own choosing.
At Columbia, it wasn’t the answers Mr. Trump gave — many of which were beside the point — but his rudeness that patiently revealed the case for humility in consequence to insights of the past. His willingness to suddenly throw questions to foreground his own views whenever he feels like revealing a more interesting version of the same tells us that to tell us that Mr. Trump sees the world and communicates with others in the same way.
To his credit, Mr. Trump felt it necessary to grant a sensitivity to issues of the Palestinians as an alternative to a simpler and near-universal right-wing view against an eternal enemy that, in the minds of many Americans, are only half human. In practice this translates to a politics that has offered disproportionate economic advantages to or greater strategies against Israel — a state that is a favored recipient of untold billions in U.S. military and aid funding annually.
After the speech Mr. Trump was treated by a number of on-campus groups: Jewish Voice for Peace, the Palestinian solidarity group and the Students for Justice in Palestine, received rapturous rounds of applause as they lobbied for Mr. Trump’s departure, echoing a larger New York City coalition’s request to vacate the campus premises.
All of this is truer than true.
So who was receiving this speech? Who was in the audience? And what did his presence do to the students of Columbia? But this much we know about the audience at Columbia, who attended by choice: As expected, most were older than students at Columbia, and it is clear they were there because they are fans of Mr. Trump.
Their demonstration of approval for Mr. Trump attests to a mindset and mores that is living proof of democracy’s limitation: a democracy overwhelmed by wealth and power that win out at the ballot box. And when the president is campaigning, this diminishment of democracy is the same limitation and structure of power that prevents the fulfillment of democratic aspirations. Trump’s appearance on campus did more than other steps that dull our democracy to political triviality. It distorted more than just our college experience — it reveals how money and loyalty oppose wisdom and the search for the truth about ourselves.
Recall that in 2009, a roomful of very young, highly gifted and diverse crowds gathered during a rally in defense of a community academic center organizing under extreme duress against demolition by a dictatorsial mayor. Those folks weren’t exactly long in the tooth, nor could you say that they were in an especially comfortable living standard.
We somehow find ourselves at a point where the precious two-party system of the United States requires us to overlook familiar and ongoing incivities in unconscionable thrall to another laborious election cycle. Meanwhile, the dark reality of climate change continues to reveal its scarring designs for our landscapes, as the Koch brothers and the Republican Party continue in their quest to ignore altogether the signs of such precarity.
History won’t be kind to us for this.
Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky professor of philosophy at Yale University, specializing in epistemology, social philosophy and philosophy of language.
How does President Trump’s disregard for the basic norms of a campus visit and his relationship with the media compare to his behavior with the media during his campaign?

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Following in the footsteps of Japan’s Daisuke Takahashi, who broke the world record for the oldest figure skater to win an Olympic medal at 29 years old in 2014, a Japanese speed skater has set a new world record for the oldest athlete to win a world age-group championship title.
The gnarled hands wrapped around the medal stand out, each of their resulting wrinkles tell a story of dedication and pride. The hands belong to Hiroki Kirimoto, a 56-year-old speed skater from Nagano, Japan, who in February won a 500-meter gold medal in the men’s masters category of short-track speed skating at the World Masters Championships in Obihiro, Japan, which secured him, not only the gold, but also the title “oldest athlete to win a World Age Group Championship gold medal.”
According to The New York Times, Kirimoto’s accomplishment broke the record for the oldest athlete to ever win a world championship title, beating out a skier from Kazakhstan, Igor Mukhin, who was 55 years, 55 days when he set a gold-medal record at the 2007 International Biathlon Union World Championships for Biathlon in 2007.
Kirimoto, who lives and breathes skating, began his competitive skating career at 44 years old and never looked back. This will be his 14th season on the circuit. The athlete finished the Obihiro race in 44.5 seconds, which is no new feat considering that the veteran speed skater’s personal best was completed in 41.45 seconds in 2015 (Elite Skating, March 14 2019).
Hiroki had already added the title “oldest world skating champion” to his impressive resume before he ever set the record for the world’s oldest medalist. In 2018 he won the gold medal in the masters (over 32 years old) category at the Track World Cup, becoming “oldest world champion ever in any individual sport at any level,” according to Guiness World Records.
After qualifying for 30 marathons, skating for 20 years, and doubling five world records, being awarded Olympic bronze and being credited with a sudden rise in the sport from Japan, Kirimoto’s knowledge of the skating scene exceeds the age of most competitors.
Kirimoto hopes that this championship subconsciously sends a message to younger skaters, regardless of experience. He said:
At Turnage Training we teach our members HOW to be successful at their sport.
We don’t teach luck
No, we teach dedication and mastering your technique and strategy.
With practice, technique and training… Neake has come to be “the chill killer”.
He wins the big tournaments and gets onto the Radix Pro Malaysia Team.
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Tornado, Storm Forecast for South Raises Alert

From the text, this article addresses the forecast for tornadoes and storms in the southern region of the United States. The article begins by stating that severe weather is being forecasted for locations in the central and southern US in the upcoming days. The National Weather Service has issued tornado watches for parts of Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, with the potential for additional watches to be issued in other states. The article also notes that a storm system is expected to move eastward and bring severe weather to areas in the Gulf Coast and lower Mississippi Valley. The Weather Channel has stated that there could be up to ten tornadoes on Thursday, with the possibility of damaging winds and large hail as well. The threat of severe weather has led to the issuance of tornado warnings and the activation of emergency management crews in some locations. The article emphasizes the need for residents in affected areas to be prepared and to closely monitor the forecasts and alerts issued by local officials.

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