The Korea Herald

[Editorial] N. Korea and talks

Feb 10, 2011

North Korea’s military said Thursday that it would not engage in dialogue with its South Korean counterpart any longer, laying the blame for the collapse on Wednesday of the two-day working-level mil...
[Editorial] A losing war

Feb 9, 2011

The administration is holding a series of meetings on soaring prices ― ministerial-level policy coordination on Wednesday, policy consultations with the ruling party on Thursday and price checking by...
[Editorial] Action on FTAs

Feb 9, 2011

In Korea, the Cabinet has recently approved a free trade agreement with the United States ― a formality undertaken before the bilateral pact is sent to the National Assembly for ratification. On the ...
[Editorial] Tricky politics

Feb 8, 2011

The term “summit talks” has made a comeback in Korean politics. It refers to a meeting between the president and the head of the main opposition party aiming to settle pending political issues in one...
[Editorial] Korean model for Egypt

Feb 8, 2011

The situation in Egypt remains hazy after two weeks of protests while a caretaker vice president is announcing a series of concessions on behalf of President Hosni Mubarak. The cabinet was replaced, ...
[Editorial] Amending basic law

Feb 7, 2011

Changing the republic’s Constitution needs a national consensus. As we perceive it, what stands in the way to constitutional amendment now is national indifference. In his televised roundtable a week...
[Editorial] Science belt project

Feb 7, 2011

It is regrettable that President Lee Myung-bak’s remarks on the “science-business belt” plan in his New Year roundtable brewed strong protests from the Chungcheong-Daejeon region. The live-televised ...
[Editorial] Delayed session

Feb 6, 2011

The National Assembly is required to open an extraordinary session on each even-numbered month. As such, it should have opened a session on Feb. 1, then gone into recess for the Lunar New Year holida...
[Editorial] It’s jobs, stupid

Feb 6, 2011

After a long lunar New Year holiday, ranging from five days to nine days, corporate enterprises are returning to business as usual. But some of them may have to brace for disruptions on their work si...
[Editorial] U.S. dilemma, again

Feb 1, 2011

By all accounts, Hosni Mubarak’s days are numbered in Egypt. The outside world sees two possibilities about the future of the largest country in the Middle East: It could become a second Iran, a nigh...
[Editorial] Trial and error

Feb 1, 2011

In January 2008, when the transition committee for president-elect Lee Myung-bak decided to abolish the Ministry of Science and Technology to put his campaign pledge of small government into practice...
[Editorial] Lee and media

Jan 31, 2011

When he faced a high wave of public protests over the U.S. beef import issue in 2008, the just-inaugurated President Lee Myung-bak vowed to enhance “public communication.” The president had a painful...
[Editorial] FKI chairman

Jan 31, 2011

The Federation of Korean Industries, the lobbying body for larger businesses, has been virtually headless for the past seven months since its chairman, Cho Suk-rae, 75, of the Hyosung Group, expresse...
[Editorial] Emissions trading

Jan 30, 2011

The government has hinted at a delay in launching a greenhouse gas emission trading system. A government bill put on public notice last November set the start date on Jan. 1, 2013. The Presidential C...
[Editorial] Lessons from Japan

Jan 30, 2011

The decision by Standard & Poor’s to cut Japan’s sovereign credit rating by a notch to AA minus has again highlighted the fiscal mess that the Tokyo government has gotten itself into. Japan’s public...

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