The Korea Herald

[Mohamed A. El-Erian] Trump illness exposes underlying market tension

ViewpointsOct 7, 2020

Losses in the main US stock indexes on Friday will go down in history simply as small ones in an otherwise choppy week. But assessed in more detail, they provide a remarkable example of the intense t...
[Kim Seong-kon] Things that make us ashamed these days

ViewpointsOct 7, 2020

Shame, though painful or unpleasant, is an integral virtue of human beings. Human decency and integrity stem from a sense of shame. If we are shameless and brazen, we are no longer human and reduced ...
[Editorial] Hypocritical virus control

EditorialOct 7, 2020

Kang’s hubby travels despite advisory; Lee visits Bongha, neglects guidelines
[Elizabeth Drew] Is US facing next civil war?

ViewpointsOct 6, 2020

America’s capital is more on edge now than at perhaps any other time since the eve of the US Civil War in 1860. The city was tense during Watergate, of course. But as much as Richard Nixon tested the...
[Therese Raphael] Johnson's case has echoes for Trump

ViewpointsOct 6, 2020

When Boris Johnson announced on March 27 that he’d tested positive for COVID-19, Brits were in shock, much as Americans were Friday morning when they heard President Donald Trump was infected. The UK...
[Editorial] Calm Posture

EditorialOct 6, 2020

Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis rules out surprise breakthrough with North Korea
Belief in mission vital to entrepreneurs

ViewpointsOct 5, 2020

The world as we know it has changed. I have lived through three different crises in my life. The first one was the Indonesian political turmoil in 1998 that coincided with the Asian financial crisis...
[Andreas Kluth] Europe can have stimulus or rule of law, not both

ViewpointsOct 5, 2020

More by carelessness than design, the European Union has conflated two of its biggest problems into what last week became one hot mess. To get out of it, the bloc may have to make the Brussels equiva...
[Editorial] Sophistry or lies?

EditorialOct 5, 2020

Choo sent phone number to aide, but argues it was not instruction to call
[Lee Kyong-hee] A land developer’s passion for Korean script

ViewpointsSept 30, 2020

Tourists flock to Bukchon Hanok Village, perpetuating the must-see reputation of the Seoul enclave. The small Korean-style houses lining narrow alleyways are cultural magnets, pulling in sightseers f...
[Kim Seong-kon] Learning from inspirational phrases on internet or in films

ViewpointsSept 30, 2020

Recently on the internet, I came across a rather penetrating passage that says, “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every frag...
[Tyler Cowen] Will pandemic normal become normal?

ViewpointsSept 30, 2020

One feature of the COVID-19 era is how much the standard ways of seeing and doing things have been remixed and turned upside down. The obvious question is then whether people will decide to make thes...
[Editorial] Strategic path

EditorialSept 30, 2020

Planned visits by Pompeo and Wang will highlight Seoul’s tricky position
[Andreas Kluth] If we can’t ban nukes, let’s stigmatize them

ViewpointsSept 29, 2020

There are potential catastrophes so dire, only an approach that blurs the realist and the utopian seems appropriate. Take for example the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Adopted by the ...
[Trudy Rubin] Trump’s ‘big lie’ echoes autocrats

ViewpointsSept 29, 2020

In the 1920s Adolf Hitler coined the term “the big lie,” meaning the use of falsehood so huge no one would believe a leader could dare promote it were it not true. From then on the phrase “the big l...