The Korea Herald

[Lee Jae-min] Stay vigilant when exports hit record

ViewpointsFeb 8, 2011

Korea’s annual exports set a new record of $466.4 billion last year and semiconductors did it again. Statistics just released by the Korean Customs Service listed semiconductors as the country’s No. ...
[Chris Monday] The paranoid style of U.S. foreign policy

ViewpointsFeb 8, 2011

Inspired by Tom Paine, Americans have fermented revolution around the globe. From Prague to Tiananmen, expanding the will of the people has been a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy. But this princip...
[Anne Michaud] The world has passed U.S. students by

ViewpointsFeb 8, 2011

In these days of tiger-mother hysteria about raising children with academic backbone, President Barack Obama has weighed in with yet another cause for paranoia. The president dropped India and China ...
[Kim Seong-kon] What to do with bullies around us?

ViewpointsFeb 8, 2011

Koreans are very proud of the recent successful rescue of the sailors of the Samho Jewelry by the UDT (Korea’s equivalent of the U.S. SEAL team). Instead of yielding to the Somali pirates’ demand for...
[Editorial] Amending basic law

EditorialFeb 7, 2011

Changing the republic’s Constitution needs a national consensus. As we perceive it, what stands in the way to constitutional amendment now is national indifference. In his televised roundtable a week...
[Editorial] Science belt project

EditorialFeb 7, 2011

It is regrettable that President Lee Myung-bak’s remarks on the “science-business belt” plan in his New Year roundtable brewed strong protests from the Chungcheong-Daejeon region. The live-televised ...
Fairer economic growth to escape income trap

ViewpointsFeb 7, 2011

With its per capita gross domestic product rising to about 30,000 yuan ($4,500), China is at a critical point if it is to avoid the middle income trap and push living standards closer to those of ric...
Change and continuity in Egypt after Mubarak

ViewpointsFeb 7, 2011

No sooner had President Hosni Mubarak announced that he wouldn’t seek re-election than the protesters who brought him low rejected his gesture. As a result, it’s still unclear whether Mubarak will le...
[David Ignatius] Egypt seen through Obama’s lens

ViewpointsFeb 7, 2011

WASHINGTON ― As President Obama watched events unfold this past week in Egypt and the surrounding Arab world, he is said to have reflected on his own boyhood experiences in Indonesia ― when the count...
[Brian W. Walsh] No tolerance on U.S. school property

ViewpointsFeb 7, 2011

“Zero tolerance” policies continue to result in injustices to our nation’s public school students. In one of the latest examples, a North Carolina school district’s application of zero tolerance may ...
[John R. Bolton] Lebanon, not Egypt, may determine fate of Mideast democracy

ViewpointsFeb 7, 2011

Despite the media’s recent focus on Egypt, events in Lebanon may well tell us more about the troubled prospects for Middle Eastern democracy. The fall of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s governm...
[Meghan Daum] In praise of snail mail in an era of e-mail

ViewpointsFeb 7, 2011

I’ve always loved mail. By that I mean the mail that arrives in a physical mailbox six days a week, not e-mail. Well, I love that too, but it’s a cheap thrill. My heart belongs to snail mail. This l...
[Yuliya Tymoshenko] Ukraine’s desire for democracy and revolution betrayed

ViewpointsFeb 7, 2011

KYIV ― From snowy Kyiv, I have watched the revolutions in Cairo and Tunis with joy and admiration. Egyptians and Tunisians are right to be proud of their desire to peacefully overthrow despotic gover...
[Editorial] Delayed session

EditorialFeb 6, 2011

The National Assembly is required to open an extraordinary session on each even-numbered month. As such, it should have opened a session on Feb. 1, then gone into recess for the Lunar New Year holida...
[Editorial] It’s jobs, stupid

EditorialFeb 6, 2011

After a long lunar New Year holiday, ranging from five days to nine days, corporate enterprises are returning to business as usual. But some of them may have to brace for disruptions on their work si...