The Korea Herald

[Robert J. Fouser] Lessons from the Spanish flu

Mar 10, 2020

Since March began, the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19, has spread rapidly around the world, causing broad disruption in its wake. The speed of the spread has caught leaders and public health of...
[Kim Seong-kon] Korea’s image battered by coronavirus outbreak

Mar 10, 2020

Until the recent outbreak of the new coronavirus, South Korea’s reputation in the international community could not have been better. For the past few decades, Samsung, LG, and Hyundai have significa...
[Nisha Gopalan] SARS lessons inoculate HK against epidemic

Mar 9, 2020

Hong Kong has fewer coronavirus cases than the US, Singapore or Italy. That might seem surprising for a city that sits on the doorstep of mainland China and has intertwining business, tourism and per...
[Kevin Rudd] COVID-19 trumps nationalism

Mar 9, 2020

I was recently walking along East 29th Street in Manhattan, after visiting a friend at Bellevue Hospital, when I was roused from my thoughts by a middle-aged white male screaming at an old Chinese ma...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Coronavirus is human credit crunch

Mar 8, 2020

It is the flow of people, as much as money, that keeps the global economy ticking over. It follows that a sudden halt to the movement of workers, shoppers and tourists should worry us just as much as...
[Gregory A. Maniatis, Monette Zard] COVID-19 blame game threatens us all

Mar 8, 2020

As the new coronavirus, COVID-19, nears pandemic status, a second scourge has followed in its path: a virulent racism that scapegoats refugees, asylum-seekers and foreigners more generally as the cau...
[Digital Simplicity] Working from home brings its own challenges

Mar 6, 2020

As the novel coronavirus spreads, a growing number of office workers in South Korea and elsewhere are being pushed out of their cozy cubicles and forced to work remotely. However, if you’re working r...
[Andy Mukherjee] Hong Kong’s helicopter money struggles for lift

Mar 5, 2020

If you’re raining cash on people and want them to spend it, you have to convince them that the benevolence is being financed by printing money. Nobody wants to worry about being taxed more in the fut...
[Faye Flam] How to prepare (rationally) for coronavirus

Mar 5, 2020

About a month ago, I prepared for COVID-19, then just known as the coronavirus, by refilling some essential heart medications I was worried might run out if there were serious supply chain disruption...
[Anjani Trivedi] We need to prepare for pandemics. They’ll keep coming

Mar 4, 2020

When it comes to infectious disease outbreaks, we just haven’t learned. It’s not as if we weren’t warned. Last year, a report by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, a body put together by the ...
[Ferdinando Giugliano] Italy shows how to tackle coronavirus impact

Mar 4, 2020

The Italian government has announced a stimulus package of 3.6 billion euros ($4 billion) to help the economy cope with the Coronavirus outbreak. The response appears timely and proportionate. Rome c...
[Eli Lake] Why Taliban is hailing US peace plan

Mar 3, 2020

On the eve of the ceremony to sign an agreement with the US to begin peace negotiations, the Taliban declared it had already won. “This is a day of victory,” said Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, a Tal...
[Kim Seong-kon] Between Seoul and Granada: Memories of Alhambra

Mar 3, 2020

Ostensibly, the Alhambra Palace does not seem to have anything to do with the “fourth industrial revolution.” The former is a famous 13th century Moorish palace located in Granada, Spain and the latt...
[Ferdinando Giugliano] Europe’s coronavirus plan is not enough

Mar 2, 2020

The economic damage from the coronavirus epidemic has prompted calls for Europe to relax its fiscal rules to allow governments to cut taxes and increase spending. The European Commission seems to agr...
[Letter to Editor] Redefining DMZ as contact zone of hope

Mar 2, 2020

On cold winter evenings, I watched drama series “Crash Landing on You.” Although this romance drama has been assessed by some critics as a pure fantasy, it has achieved great success by vividly featu...