Would you care if a store used facial recognition to track you as you shopped? If it could link your face to your credit card and know not just what you bought, but also what you looked at? Data I’ve gathered on consumer sentiment suggests that many people do mind being tracked through their biometrics. In one study I conducted, 77 percent of people expressed interest in a coffee shop customer loyalty program that worked by ID card, but only 47 percent were interested if the same program tracked

What’s urgent Moon-Trump talks fall short of creating fresh momentum for US-NK denuclearization talks The latest talks between President Moon Jae-in and US President Donald Trump showed that the two have -- for now -- few means to accelerate the US-North Korea negotiations on denuclearization. In other words, the future developments of international efforts to disarm the rogue regime will depend on what course of action its young leader Kim Jong-un takes in the weeks or months to come. The M

The government and the ruling party are seeking a swift legislative passage of revised bills on commercial law and the Fair Trade Act.The bills have clauses that will tighten regulations on Korean companies.Under the revised bill on commercial law, cumulative voting will be compulsory and an auditing member of the board of directors must be elected separately from other members who are elected by major shareholders.　Cumulative voting enables minority shareholders or speculative capital to elect

If you don’t follow the regular trials and tribulations of technology companies or have been living in a cave for five years, it might be surprising that Microsoft Corp. is poised to surpass Apple Inc. as the world’s most valuable public company. While the baton was passed briefly on Monday, it most likely won’t be long until Microsoft is firmly entrenched again as No. 1 in the world. This won’t be surprising to regular readers, but it will be to people whose opinion about Microsoft was frozen i

Approval ratings for politicians, including presidents, tend to fluctuate. But the recent downward trend in President Moon Jae-in’s popularity should sound alarm bells. The results of the latest public opinion survey, released by the pollster Realmeter last week, showed that Moon’s approval rating fell to 52 percent -- the lowest level since he took office in May last year. It was the eighth consecutive week that it declined. A combination of factors must have worked together to bring down the p