The Korea Herald

[Kim Seong-kon] Coronavirus resembles a corrosive ideology

May 20, 2020

The global pandemic called COVID-19 is now ruthlessly invading the world, devastating all the infected nations and still causing untold numbers of deaths. Humans cannot but shudder at this never-befo...
[Doyle McManus] Welcome back, Barack. What took you so long?

May 19, 2020

It’s about time. After more than three years of relative self-restraint while President Donald Trump lambasted his character and eviscerated his policies, former President Barack Obama has waded bac...
[Lionel Laurent] The perfect coronavirus refuge

May 19, 2020

The world’s tourism hot spots are gradually reopening after the great lockdown, but they don’t look very alluring. Going to the beach will require spacing out parasols and forgetting about the drinks...
[Byoung-chul Min] How Korea is fighting against COVID-19

May 18, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic had initially shaken South Korea. In the beginning, as we struggled to contain the virus, the number of infections rose quickly, just as other countries later experienced. Howev...
[Trudy Rubin] Swedish model holds coronavirus lessons for America

May 18, 2020

As a partisan debate rages over whether and how to reopen the country, America is drifting, with no coherent strategy from the White House. States are opening up helter-skelter. President Donald Trum...
[Lionel Laurent] COVID-19 vaccine fight getting ugly

May 18, 2020

An effective COVID-19 vaccine, if it ever arrives, should be treated as a public good for the whole of society. Every continent has been struck by the virus, bar Antarctica. But the combination of n...
[Digital Simplicity] Why font matters in an era of multiple digital screens

May 17, 2020

I had nearly perfect vision. I had no problem reading fine print. I was able to read paperbacks whose font size was deemed too small for average readers. I often read books on the bus or in rooms wit...
[Therese Raphael] Boris Johnson’s reopening strategy confuses Britain

May 14, 2020

Boris Johnson’s much-anticipated address to the nation Sunday night left many feeling unsatisfied, and others infuriated. For a political team that has often used pithy slogans to devastating effect,...
[Andreas Kluth] EU entering constitutional crisis

May 14, 2020

You might have been under the impression that the European Union has quite enough problems to manage. For one thing, there’s a pandemic going on, causing a recession and a debt crisis that might blow...
[Kim Seong-kon] Be grateful and modest in these challenging times

May 13, 2020

Amid the ever-widening spread of the novel coronavirus, we realize things that we normally would not. For example, we realize we should be grateful to doctors, nurses and health care workers who are ...
[David Ignatius] Russia’s scavenger diplomacy

May 13, 2020

While most of the world has been on lockdown from the novel coronavirus, the wars and political machinations of the Middle East have continued. Amid this turmoil, Russia appears to be making steady p...
[Alex Soohoon Lee] Imagining a South Korea-US-ASEAN tripartite partnership

May 12, 2020

The world highlighted the success of the Republic of Korea in dealing with COVID-19, and President Moon Jae-in recently shared South Korea’s strategy with leaders from the Association of Southeast As...
[Noah Smith] US states must maintain lockdowns

May 12, 2020

Many states in the US are racing to reopen their economies before measures such as testing, contact tracing and full-time mask-wearing are in place. But one of biggest economic effects of a hasty end...
[Trudy Rubin] Trump’s virus blame game can’t disguise failures

May 12, 2020

For critical weeks in February and early March President Donald Trump claimed COVID-19 would magically disappear by itself or with warmer weather. That didn’t work. So, with the death toll at more t...
[Arvind Subramanian] The threat of enfeebled great powers

May 11, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis augurs three watersheds: the end of Europe’s integration project, the end of a united, functional America, and the end of the implicit social compact between the Chinese state and...