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[Kim Seong-kon] Good intentions may bring bad outcomes

ViewpointsAug 5, 2020

We tend to believe we are doing the right thing when our intentions are good. Often enough, however, we realize in retrospect that we were wrong at the time despite our good intentions. This is espec...
[Editorial] Looming conflict

EditorialAug 5, 2020

Forced labor issue should not be let to further worsen ties between Seoul, Tokyo
[Clara Ferreira Marques, Matthew Brooker] Hong Kong takes the zero-risk poll option

ViewpointsAug 4, 2020

Hong Kong’s decision to bar a dozen pro-democracy candidates from contesting legislative elections and then to postpone the vote by a year won’t leave its economic prospects unscathed. It’s a strikin...
[Faye Flam] US can control COVID-19 without second lockdown

ViewpointsAug 4, 2020

Rising COVID-19 case counts across the US have made a second lockdown seem almost inevitable. It is likely to be months before a vaccine could end the coronavirus pandemic, and the US is also months ...
[Editorial] Vanishing jeonse

EditorialAug 4, 2020

Revised lease act entices landlords into shifting to monthly rent
[Kwon Soon-yong] Telemedicine in the era of post-COVID-19

ViewpointsAug 3, 2020

As the coronavirus crisis emerged, South Korea distinguished itself on the global stage on the basis of its excellent health care system, quality of medical staff and personnel, and most of all, the ...
[Editorial] Unexpected rebound

EditorialAug 3, 2020

Positive data for June can barely be taken as indicator of economic recovery
[Serendipity] Turn crisis into opportunity for arts

ViewpointsJul 31, 2020

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has raged on for more than seven months now, it was said that there would be a plethora of books about the time of the novel coronavirus in the years...
[Robert J. Fouser] Sejong City back in limelight again

ViewpointsJul 31, 2020

Sejong City is back in the limelight. Politicians of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, are rallying behind a proposal to move the president, the National Assembly, and government ministries from ...
[Editorial] Stop shaking BAI

EditorialJul 31, 2020

Ruling party pressures Choe before release of report on Wolsong Unit 1
[Jean Pisani-Ferry] Challenges of post-pandemic agenda

ViewpointsJul 30, 2020

There is a growing possibility that the COVID-19 crisis will mark the end of the growth model born four decades ago with the Reagan-Thatcher revolution, China’s embrace of capitalism, and the demise ...
[Kim Myong-sik] Pandemic provides excuse for return to nuclear energy

ViewpointsJul 30, 2020

Former Korea Exchange Chairman Hong In-kie devoted his life after public service to research on international energy issues. While teaching at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, ...
[Editorial] Controversial appointment

EditorialJul 30, 2020

Clarification needed on authenticity of an alleged secret accord with Pyongyang
[Michael R. Strain] Keep your eye on the ball, Republicans

ViewpointsJul 29, 2020

Senate Republicans are in conspicuous disarray following last week’s failed effort to unify behind a package of economic recovery measures. In part, that’s because Republican senators are too defere...
[Kim Seong-kon] Waiting for Korea’s ‘New Mutants’

ViewpointsJul 29, 2020

In 1964, Leslie Fiedler, a distinguished American literary critic, announced the advent of the Age of the New Mutants. In his monumental essay, “The New Mutants,” Fielder envisioned the American yout...