The Korea Herald

[Editorial] Needless Big Brother

EditorialAug 24, 2020

Plan to create powerful agency to supervise housing transactions must be reconsidered
[Serendipity] Wishing it were a movie

ViewpointsAug 21, 2020

It felt as if I were a character in a zombie movie. I was driving home from the office Monday evening when, over the airwaves, I heard a crisp, measured male voice announcing the number of new daily ...
[Editorial] Consultative mechanism

EditorialAug 21, 2020

Seoul-Washington working group cannot be seen as hindering inter-Korean relations
[David Fickling] China doesn’t need 20,170 km of track

ViewpointsAug 20, 2020

The building of China’s high-speed rail network counts as one of the greatest transportation success stories so far this century. That doesn’t mean the country can repeat the trick. When plans for a...
[Mac Margolis] Latin America’s populists are ovewhelmed by COVID-19

ViewpointsAug 20, 2020

Examples abound of how reprehensible leadership has worsened Latin America’s plight during the coronavirus pandemic. After consistently flouting public health safeguards, right-wing populist Brazilia...
[Editorial] Anti-Japanese frame

EditorialAug 20, 2020

Head of Heritage of Korean Independence criticizes Rhee, Aegukga as pro-Japanese
[Editorial] Medical reform

EditorialAug 20, 2020

Doctors, government should shelve conflict amid a resurgence in coronavirus cases
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Hong Kong’s closed schools risk a lost generation

ViewpointsAug 19, 2020

Keeping schoolchildren home again this fall will come at a hefty price for families and economies around the world. In Hong Kong, authorities may be underestimating the cost. The government’s decisi...
[Kim Seong-kon] Korean ministries in the eyes of foreigners

ViewpointsAug 19, 2020

Sometimes outsiders can see what insiders cannot; that is why foreigners’ perspectives are often illuminating. Recently, foreign commentators have expressed concern and puzzlement about the policies ...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Russia’s Sputnik vaccine gamble is all about Vladimir Putin

ViewpointsAug 18, 2020

There was no clearer way of signaling how Russia sees its coronavirus vaccine: Moscow named it Sputnik, after the satellite whose launch in 1957 marked the start of the space race and forced the West...
[Editorial] Back to basics

EditorialAug 18, 2020

Infections rise sharply in Seoul area; more sickbeds needed
[Michael R. Strain] Closed schools are a national emergency

ViewpointsAug 14, 2020

Many parents in the US are coming to grips with the reality that their children may not return to their schools until the fall semester of 2021. Schools that aren’t opening this fall seem to be waiti...
[Robert J. Fouser] Is ‘Korean New Deal’ needed?

ViewpointsAug 14, 2020

A month ago, on July 14, President Moon Jae-in gave a speech outlining the “Korean New Deal.” The term takes its name from US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s sweeping response to the Great Depressi...
[Editorial] Restoration first

EditorialAug 14, 2020

Four rivers project faces reevaluation; probe must not be excuse to shift blame
[Cass R. Sunstein] Republicans’ dangerous hypocrisy

ViewpointsAug 13, 2020

The system of separation of powers is in real trouble. That’s the main conclusion to draw from President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders, attempting to circumvent Congress with actions that (h...