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[Kim Myong-sik] Han Dong-hoon, symbol of sick prosecution system

ViewpointsOct 22, 2020

An old Chinese saying goes: Cook the dog after catching the hare. This may be applied to the current turmoil in the state prosecution organization involving Prosecutor-General Yoon Suk-youl and Chief...
[Editorial] Undue shutdown

EditorialOct 22, 2020

Audit results highlight inappropriateness of reactor closure decision
[Francis Wilkinson] Paradoxical potential of Biden presidency

ViewpointsOct 21, 2020

If Joe Biden enters the White House on the afternoon of Jan. 20, there is reason to expect that intraparty conflicts will come racing to the fore: between the Democratic left and Democratic moderates...
[Kim Seong-kon] Seven baffling things in Korea

ViewpointsOct 21, 2020

There are a myriad of enigmatic things happening in Korea these days, whether in the North or the South. For example, North Korea confuses us by showing us a friendly gesture recently, while displayi...
[Editorial] Stop the death of couriers

EditorialOct 21, 2020

Ten couriers have died, apparently from overwork, this year; government should improve their working conditions
[Andreas Kluth] International law can’t solve Greco-Turkish island problem

ViewpointsOct 20, 2020

Kastellorizo is one of those places that might become a cause for war even though most people couldn’t find it on a map. The combatants would be Greece and Turkey, formally NATO “allies” but in real...
[David Fickling] Lesson in Ardern landslide victory

ViewpointsOct 20, 2020

For governments facing a growing wave of coronavirus cases as fall turns to winter, there’s a stark lesson in Saturday’s stunning election victory for New Zealand’s incumbent Prime Minister Jacinda A...
[Editorial] Sluggish exports

EditorialOct 20, 2020

Rising value of the won adds to worsening conditions faced by Korean exporters
[H.R. McMaster] US foreign policy took a narcissistic turn after the Cold War. Here’s how to set things right

ViewpointsOct 19, 2020

In 1989 I was a captain in the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment stationed in West Germany. Our regiment patrolled a stretch of the Iron Curtain that divided democracies and dictatorships. That November, ...
[Andy Mukherjee] The next China? India must first beat Bangladesh

ViewpointsOct 19, 2020

India’s COVID-19 economic gloom turned into despair last week, on news that its per capita gross domestic product may be lower for 2020 than in neighboring Bangladesh. “Any emerging economy doing we...
[Editorial] ‘Jeonse refugee’

EditorialOct 19, 2020

Deputy prime minister in trouble after revision to the law caused scarcity of homes for jeonse
[Serendipity] Magical evening at the palace

ViewpointsOct 16, 2020

An unseasonal cold snap did little to deter hundreds of people, young and old, from taking in the enchanting view of Gyeongbokgung at night on Wednesday. The colorful dancheong that decorate the pal...
[David Fickling] China’s coal import ban has more bark than bite

ViewpointsOct 16, 2020

Remember in June when China called a halt to purchases of US soybeans and then stopped buying US soybeans? Or last year, when China blocked imports of Australian coal and then stopped buying Australi...
[Editorial] OPCON transfer

EditorialOct 16, 2020

Seoul needs more caution in evaluating the fulfillment of required conditions
[Lee Kyong-hee] Legacy of a pioneer feminist thinker and activist

ViewpointsOct 15, 2020

The news of the death of famed feminist scholar and activist Lee Hyo-jae last week brought back a memory from the early 1980s. I met her briefly at the house of a friend of mine, where she was hiding...