The Korea Herald

[Lee Kyong-hee] Nurses recount battle against COVID-19

Apr 1, 2021

On the last morning of February 2020, South Korea awakened to the news that Daegu had the largest number of COVID-19 cases outside of China and the city didn’t have enough medical personnel to cope w...
[Kim Seong-kon] The society that induces us to become a snitch

Mar 31, 2021

In civilized countries, tattling on others is a despicable act. At home and school, children learn not to tell on others. If you become a snitch, you lose respect and integrity. It is an honor code f...
[Doyle McManus] Biden‘s revolution of modest expectations

Mar 31, 2021

If the Biden White House were a factory, management would post a sign at the front gate: 68 days without a presidential gaffe. What has come over Joe Biden? His first two months as president haven’t...
[George Magnus] China’s go-it-alone 5-year plan

Mar 30, 2021

This year’s meeting of China’s legislature, the National People’s Congress, was one of the most important in recent times. China is facing its most hostile external environment in decades, with a gro...
[Andreas Kluth] We must start planning for a permanent pandemic

Mar 29, 2021

For the past year, an assumption -- sometimes explicit, often tacit -- has informed almost all our thinking about the pandemic: At some point, it will be over, and then we‘ll go “back to normal.” Th...
[Jeffrey Frankel] Biden administration’s sensible stimulus

Mar 29, 2021

The United States and the world entered recession a year ago. Normally, economists can’t predict the onset of a downturn. But because this recession stemmed from the COVID-19 pandemic, they could rel...
[Robert J. Fouser] South Korea should join the Quad

Mar 26, 2021

On March 18, the US and China met in Anchorage, Alaska, for the first time since Joe Biden took office in January. The two days of talks between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Communis...
[Eli Lake] Biden makes Afghan problems worse

Mar 25, 2021

When President Joe Biden took office, he inherited a foreign policy disaster in Afghanistan. A year ago, his predecessor‘s envoys negotiated an agreement with the Taliban that said the last US troop...
[Kim Myong-sik] A flop in leftists’ ‘save Han Myong-suk’ crusade

Mar 25, 2021

Han Myong-suk was the indisputable symbol of the feminist movement on the left side of politics in this country. A daughter of a war refugee family from North Korea, she started as a student activist...
[Pankaj Mishra] Joe Biden’s own culture war

Mar 24, 2021

Comparisons of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus bill to the New Deal are flourishing. They obscure the fact that Biden’s achievement -- passing reform legislation against an intransigent ...
[Kim Seong-kon] Parental love takes various forms

Mar 24, 2021

A week ago the world was horrified to learn that a 21-year-old American opened fire in three massage parlors in Atlanta and killed eight people, four of whom were Korean women. Many Koreans and Korea...
[Elizabeth Drew] Can Biden show America is governable?

Mar 23, 2021

The most significant thing that President Joe Biden said in his first prime-time address, on March 11, was that in recent years, “We lost faith in whether our government and our democracy can deliver...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] How to conquer vaccine skeptics

Mar 23, 2021

Ask on the street in Hong Kong if passers-by will get the COVID-19 vaccine, and you may hear what I did: “Sometime.” “Maybe.” “No.” Combating this hesitancy here and elsewhere will take more than op...
[H.R. McMaster, Jonathan D.T. Ward] Look to Reagan administration for the answer to the China challenge

Mar 22, 2021

Among the best remembered summits of the 20th century are those of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. Reagan’s commitment to dialogue with America’s primary adversary and what then-Secretary of Sta...
[Mary McNamara] If killing of six Asian women isn’t hate crime, what is?

Mar 22, 2021

If anyone was still “uneducated” about the insidious and brutal nature of racism in this country, the recent contemptible slaughter of eight people, including six Asian women, in the Atlanta area, al...