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[Lionel Laurent] Macron has same issue as Louis XVI

ViewpointsDec 22, 2020

When King Louis XVI, his two brothers and his sister-in-law were inoculated against smallpox in 18th-century France, the public worried about the risks. Though the experiment was a success, even spar...
[Editorial] Wrong words and deeds

EditorialDec 22, 2020

Byeon insults deceased temp, belittles tenants; Lee assaults taxi driver for waking him up
[Tim Culpan, Noah Smith] Securing supply chains doesn’t mean bringing them home

ViewpointsDec 21, 2020

While much of Joe Biden’s first term in office will involve digging out from the COVID-19 pandemic and recession, the incoming president has also vowed to change the way the US manages its supply cha...
[Trudy Rubin] What Biden needs to handle China

ViewpointsDec 21, 2020

As President Donald Trump continues to spew lies about “election fraud” and attack democratic institutions, he is handing China a huge Christmas gift. Trump touts his hardZ-line tack toward Beijing ...
[Editorial] Unnecessary price

EditorialDec 21, 2020

Ill-conceived nuclear phaseout policy pushing up electricity bills
[Digital Simplicity] What happens to users when Google suffers massive outage?

ViewpointsDec 19, 2020

A host of Google services including YouTube and Gmail were down for about an hour on Monday, leading to the trending hashtag “#YouTubeDOWN.” For those who rely heavily on Google’s productivity servic...
[Robert J. Fouser] South Korea pulls through 2020

ViewpointsDec 18, 2020

The year 2020 has been a very cruel one, as the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe. As of mid-December, 74 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported and 1.65 million people have died from the d...
[Editorial] Unwarranted punishment

EditorialDec 18, 2020

Moon OKs 2-month suspension of Yoon; court must handle appeal quickly
[Kim Myong-sik] 21st National Assembly, Behemoth of the 21st century

ViewpointsDec 17, 2020

South Korea’s 21st term of the National Assembly is the Behemoth of the 21st century -- it can do anything, bad things mostly. The Book of Job in the Old Testament describes it: “When the river rage...
[Cass R. Sunstein] Undoing Trump‘s last-minute regulations

ViewpointsDec 17, 2020

Donald Trump’s administration is doing an extraordinary amount of “midnight rule-making” -- issuing regulations at the very end of the president’s four-year term. This will cause real trouble for the...
[Editorial] Deplorable measure

EditorialDec 17, 2020

Anti-leafleting law runs risk of branding South Korea as human rights violator
[Editorial] Homes that people want

EditorialDec 16, 2020

Supply of public rental houses must be auxiliary to private-sector housing policy
[Kim Seong-kon] 'Joined in isolation’ in these troubled times

EditorialDec 16, 2020

Recently, I came across two insightful sijo poems written by Americans who won prizes at the sijo contest sponsored by the Sejong Cultural Society in Chicago. One was “Social Distancing” and the othe...
[Josef Joffe] Who will succeed Merkel?

ViewpointsDec 16, 2020

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union has ruled the 71-year-old Federal Republic for a total of 50 years. When she steps down next fall after 16 years in office, it is safe to ...
[Slawomir Sierakowski] Poland’s populist Catch-22

ViewpointsDec 15, 2020

A half-billion people across the European Union have effectively been held hostage by United Poland, a tiny Polish political party that is largely unknown even among the country’s voters. At issue wa...