Writings and Talks for the General Audience
Selected Interviews/Media Coverage
“Trump wants to create manufacturing jobs. His tech allies invest in robots to do the work.” ABC News (May 24, 2025).
“Notre Dame economist explores how using robots in nursing homes affects workers and patients.” Notre Dame News (January 2025).
“Japanese Nursing Homes Using Robots Had Better Care Outcomes,” Open Minds Weekly News Wire (February 2025).
“Future of Work.” Think ND Podcast (December 14, 2023).
“Exploring the AI Effect.” WSBT-TV Town Hall Meeting (December 14, 2023).
“AI can alert urban planners and policymakers to cities’ decay.” Notre Dame News (October 26, 2023).
“Generative AI to usher in new workplace reality for white-collar workers.” S&P Global Market Intelligence (October 5, 2023).
“How information about regulation can change managers' feelings toward AI.” Charter (July 31, 2023).
“AI drive-thrus may be good for business, but not for the rest of us” CNN (June 17, 2023).
Will a Robot Take My Job? Notre Dame News (May 29, 2023).
From the Future – Philosophical, Political, Practical Issues. The Observer (January 31, 2023).
Detecting Signs of Urban Decay. Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute (October 24, 2022).
The Dutch Tax Authority Was Felled by AI – What Comes Next? IEEE Spectrum (May 9, 2022).
Rise in trust of institutions led to boos in entrepreneurial intent, especially among STEM undergraduates. Notre Dame News (April 6, 2022).
Freakonomics Radio. How to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot Apocalypse. May 20, 2021.
Let's Talk AI Podcast. The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs. September 19, 2020.
Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute. Why Robots and AI May Not Herald a Job Apocalypse. Aug 19, 2020.
Oliver Wyman Forum. Robots may be the right prescription for struggling nursing homes. June 10, 2020.
KQED Newsroom interview on Trump-Kim Summit and North Korea sanctions and development, March 1, 2019.
KCRW To the Point. October 11, 2017.
KBS News. June 16, 2016.
VoxEU. November 6, 2014.
Peterson Institute North Korea Blog. November 5, 2014.
Stanford News. October 27, 2014.
NK News. 2014.
Covid-19 Related
U.S. Tech Companies Can Do More During the COVID-19 Outbreak. FSI Medium, March 30, 2020.
What South Korea’s Case Informs Us About the Infection Fatality Rate of Covid-19. mimeo, April 30, 2020.
Asia Related
Analyzing the Structure and Performance of Kim Jong-un’s Regime (with Thomas Fingar, Kwan-jin Kim, and Hyeong-seog Lee). Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and the Institute for National Security Strategy. June 2017.
Trade Policy with Asia by the Next U.S. Administration. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, November 1, 2016.
Reflections on the Seventieth Anniversary of the End of the Pacific War: Eight Stanford Scholars Write Their Own August Statement (with Alberta Diaz-Cayeros, Peter Duus, Thomas Fingar, David Holloway, Takeo Hoshi, Henry S. Rowen, and Daniel C. Sneider). Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. 2015
Opinion Pieces
The Chemistry Between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. Op-Ed in The Diplomat, February 27, 2019.
Happiness and Productivity” Op-Ed in The Korea Times (in Korean), March 21, 2019.
What Would and Aged Society Look Like” Op-Ed in The Korea Times (in Korean), January 23, 2019.
Rethinking North Korean Economy?” Op-Ed in The Korea Times (in Korean), November 29, 2018.
Helping the Career Choices of Our Children in the 4th Industrial Revolution” Op-Ed in The Korea Times (in Korean), October 18, 2018.
Should We Encourage Kids to Learn Coding?” Op-Ed in The Korea Times (in Korean), August 6, 2018.
A Grand Bargain between the US and China Seems More Likely than Ever. Op-Ed in Maeil Business Newspaper (in Korean), December 25, 2017.
New North Korea Sanctions a Plausible Step yet Unlikely to Break Deadlock. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, July 20, 2017.
Technological Change: Why Korea Needs a Longer Term Perspective on Job Creation. Op-Ed in Maeil Business Newspaper (in Korean), June 27, 2017.
Technology, Not Trade, Will Affect Jobs in U.S., South Korea. Op-Ed for the Pacific Council of International Affairs, May 2017.
Labor Market by the Youth, and for the Youth. Op-Ed in Maeil Business Newspaper (in Korean), January 30, 2017.
Is Korea Ready to Accept Failure? Op-Ed in Maeil Business Newspaper (in Korean), June 21, 2016.