The Korea Herald

[Trudy Rubin] Trump’s support for West Bank seizure disastrous

Jun 19, 2020

Under cover of COVID-19 and the US convulsion over racism, the White House is promoting a policy that spells disaster for Israel. Too few are paying attention. As part of President Donald Trump’s “p...
[Kim Myong-sik] Balloons expose North’s leadership in jitters

Jun 18, 2020

North Korea’s demolition of the South-North Liaison Office building in the border town of Kaesong this week was outrageous, but it also showed Pyongyang’s limitations in its actions against Seoul in ...
[Jeffrey Frankel] What’s in a recession?

Jun 18, 2020

On June 8, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research declared that economic activity in the United States had peaked in February 2020, formally marking the start...
[Yoon Seok-jun] Post-pandemic challenges face Korea from health policy standpoint

Jun 17, 2020

The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak is causing Koreans to reflect on their way of life. Additionally, foreigners who are interested in the current status of Korea seek to understand how they are overcoming...
[Kim Seong-kon] Suddenly this summer

Jun 17, 2020

The above title is a riff and parody on Tennessee Williams’ famous play, “Suddenly Last Summer.” In this Southern Gothic play, Violet’s son, Sebastian, had died in Europe the previous summer under du...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Case study for second-wave lockdowns

Jun 17, 2020

Mexico, India and Pakistan are among the countries that have hit record numbers of new coronavirus cases in recent days, as drastic regulations that kept streets empty and people apart are lifted. It...
[Peter Singer] Is age discrimination acceptable?

Jun 16, 2020

Should we value all human lives equally? This question arose in an acute form in March, when the novel coronavirus overwhelmed Italy’s health care system. Envisaging a situation in which there would...
[Yoon Young-kwan] The shape of Asia’s new Cold War

Jun 16, 2020

In retrospect, the decision by the Communist Party of China to impose a new security law on Hong Kong seems to have been preordained. Historically, rising powers always try to expand their spheres of...
[Therese Raphael] What a slave trader’s statue says about Britain

Jun 15, 2020

If Britons wanted a reason to protest against institutional racism, or police brutality, they didn’t have to look 6,400 kilometers away. There have been plenty of local examples over the years. “I ca...
[Timothy L. O’Brien] Why Trump has trouble addressing Black Lives Matter

Jun 15, 2020

April Ryan, a veteran White House correspondent with American Urban Radio Networks and a political analyst for CNN, reported Tuesday afternoon that President Donald Trump is planning a major address ...
[Digital Simplicity] Does your refrigerator spark joy?

Jun 12, 2020

Just like the merciless ransomware which locked down my entire hard disk drive overnight, the sudden demise of my refrigerator turned a whole array of food items into something closer to trash. It ma...
[Andreas Kluth] US must not cut troops in Germany

Jun 12, 2020

It’s always interesting to see who’s celebrating. In German politics, that’s currently the Left Party, a descendant of East Germany’s former dictatorship that likes to brew anti-Americanism and Russo...
[Nisha Gopalan] The office not dead, just recovering

Jun 11, 2020

I returned to the office this week, joining thousands of bankers from Citigroup to Morgan Stanley that are trickling back to their desks in Hong Kong. After almost five months working from home, it’s...
[Andy Mukherjee] Economic nationalism a wrong turn for COVID-hit India

Jun 11, 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants all 1.3 billion Indians to be “vocal for local” -- meaning, to not just use domestically made products but also to promote them. As an overseas citizen living in Ho...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Vietnam breaks out of COVID tourist trap

Jun 10, 2020

Vietnam is pulling ahead in the race to reopen Southeast Asia to city-hoppers and sunseekers. International arrivals were down 98 percent in May from a year earlier, after a record 2019. Yet success...