The Korea Herald

[Editorial] Smartphone suits

Apr 25, 2011

A week after Apple Inc. filed a patent lawsuit with a California court against Samsung Electronics, the latter came up with countersuits against Apple at courts in Korea, Japan and Germany. While the...
[Editorial] Rain tops Time 100

Apr 25, 2011

Singer and actor Rain was chosen as the most influential person in the world in a Time magazine poll for the third time since 2006. Rain, 28, with the Korean name Jung Ji-hoon, took the top spot in t...
[Editorial] Localization of parts

Apr 24, 2011

Domestic companies are stepping up efforts to localize some of the parts and materials they import from Japan as their suppliers in the neighboring country are in trouble due to the March 11 earthqua...
[Editorial] Card crisis deja vu

Apr 24, 2011

Korea suffered a severe credit card crisis in 2003 that not only disrupted the financial system but hit the real economy with a body blow. The crisis followed a massive credit card lending boom, whic...
[Editorial] Union demand

Apr 22, 2011

If a company is to prosper, one of the first things it must do is hire people with skills, knowledge, capacity and other qualifications that can be put to good use. It goes without saying that no res...
[Editorial] Reform in jeopardy

Apr 22, 2011

Cronyism in the legal profession is set to be weakened, if not removed, with the National Assembly scheduled to act on a bill to restrict the practice of law by judge- and prosecutor-turned lawyers t...
[Editorial] Checks on reactors

Apr 21, 2011

Concerns about the safety of the nuclear reactors in Korea are growing as problems arise in succession at the reactors of the Gori nuclear power plant near Busan. The Gori-1 reactor, the oldest in K...
[Editorial] Defusing debt bomb

Apr 21, 2011

The Korean economy is sitting on a ticking time bomb ― household debt that has topped 800 trillion won. To figure out the risks that this huge debt bomb poses to the national economy, one has only to...
[Editorial] Bad bank

Apr 20, 2011

The proposed establishment of a bad bank is set in motion by the financial regulators, who are worried that soured project financing loans, if not dealt with appropriately, could cause a financial cr...
[Editorial] Overeducating

Apr 20, 2011

The number of people who are highly educated but economically inactive has been increasing at an alarmingly high rate during the past decade ― surely an unwelcome reminder to parents that the costly ...
[Editorial] 6 parties, 6 dreams

Apr 19, 2011

The six-party talks for the denuclearization of North Korea may be resumed sometime this spring after a hiatus of more than two years. South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan and U.S. Secretary o...
[Editorial] Return of artifacts

Apr 18, 2011

Yet another joint government-civic committee is about to be formed to take charge of identifying Korean cultural articles overseas and start working for their return home. President Lee gave the inst...
[Editorial] By-elections

Apr 18, 2011

The April 27 by-elections to pick National Assemblymen for three districts in Gyeonggi, South Gyeongsang and South Jeolla provinces, the governor of Gangwon Province and to fill vacancies at several ...
[Editorial] On the mend

Apr 17, 2011

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, driven into chaos by four student suicides this year, now appears to be recovering from the initial shock and looking for solutions to stressful ca...
[Editorial] Judicial reform

Apr 17, 2011

When asked about judicial reform last week, Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik was noncommittal. He apparently did not want to be drawn into a conflict over the thorny issue when he said, “There is no righ...

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