The Korea Herald

[Editorial] Beyond commitment

EditorialJan 6, 2021

Amid daunting security environment, Seoul should tighten alliance with US
[Sam Fazeli] How to stay ahead of a mutating coronavirus

ViewpointsJan 5, 2021

Count 2020 as a lucky year. This may sound odd given that the world grappled with a pandemic that has killed close to 1.8 million people and crippled many countries’ economies. The “luck” relates to ...
[Martin Schram] Which is Wannabe Working Class Party?

ViewpointsJan 5, 2021

As America prepares to inaugurate Scranton Joe Biden as our 46th president, we interrupt Washington’s backslapping Democratic elites to inject a dose of realpolitik into a party that still calls itse...
[Editorial] COVID-19 negligence

EditorialJan 5, 2021

Authorities transfer nursing home patients belatedly; Infections surge at detention center
[Lara Wodtke] Doing democracy during the pandemic

ViewpointsJan 4, 2021

When COVID-19 emerged exactly one year ago, liberal democracy was in crisis. For the first time since 2001, there were more autocracies than democracies in the world. Right-wing populists were gainin...
[Joseph E. Stiglitz] How Biden can restore multilateralism unilaterally

ViewpointsJan 4, 2021

There is so much to celebrate with the new year. The arrival of safe, effective COVID-19 vaccines means that there is light at the end of the pandemic tunnel (though the next few months will be horri...
[Editorial] Due leniency

EditorialJan 4, 2021

Humanitarian, not political considerations should be given to pardoning two jailed ex-presidents
[Robert J. Fouser] South Korea’s post-pandemic future

ViewpointsJan 1, 2021

The world begins 2021 with hope amid continuing despair. The roll out of vaccines in wealthy countries offers hope that the COVID-19 pandemic will wind down as the year moves along. This hope contras...
[Editorial] Twilight of presidency

EditorialJan 1, 2021

New Year begins with eyes on vaccines, new investigation body, prosecution, presidential hopefuls
[Kim Myong-sik] Yoon Seok-youl looms large in 2021 Korean politics

ViewpointsDec 31, 2020

We are sadly sending off “Twenty-Twenty” and entering 2021 with very little hope for a better year. In the New Year, people will continue to live with the inconvenience of wearing face masks and in f...
[Editorial] Senseless scheme

EditorialDec 31, 2020

Adherence to nuclear phaseout policy makes basic plan for electricity supply flawed
[Kim Seong-kon] Reminiscing about 2020 with woe and remorse

ViewpointsDec 30, 2020

Undoubtedly, history will remember 2020 as the Year of the Global Pandemic. For the first time since the Spanish flu hit the world in the early 20th century, a worldwide disease caused society to cha...
[Shuli Ren] China shows Ma what an activist can do

ViewpointsDec 30, 2020

The rare activist moment at China’s central bank was too late and too crude. For years, when it came to innovative business ideas, Beijing’s stance has been to let them flourish -- there’s always ro...
[Editorial] Emotional legislation

EditorialDec 30, 2020

Democratic Party must stop venting anger over Yoon, focus on changing policies for people
[Therese Raphael] Now we know how Boris Johnson’s movie ends

ViewpointsDec 29, 2020

Now we know how this movie ends. “Brexit means Brexit,” Theresa May declared in those electric but mystifying opening scenes after the referendum back in 2016. It wasn’t clear then or for a long whil...