The Korea Herald

[Gregory Rodriguez] A conglomeration of U.S. tax incentives

Mar 6, 2011

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what your country has done for you lately. With apologies to John F. Kennedy, that’s what concerned citizens should be doing to get their heads around t...
[Yuriko Koike] Asia’s chains that bind manufacturing

Mar 6, 2011

TOKYO ― Asian manufacturers have always migrated in search of cheaper labor. Until recently, China seemed their ultimate destination, claiming an ever larger share of investment by Asia’s huge produc...
Push for energy-efficient growth in China

Mar 4, 2011

As the world’s second largest economy, China’s continuous and concrete efforts to raise its energy efficiency are important not only for itself, but for the world. That China has managed to cut ener...
Take a no-fly zone in Libya off the table

Mar 4, 2011

No one doubts the importance of U.S. action to end the regime of Moammar Gadhafi. Unlike Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whose overthrow inspired a resistance movement in Libya, Gadhafi has made wa...
[Khaled Mattawa] Shaking off the fear in Libya

Mar 4, 2011

On April 7, 1977, members of the revolutionary committees had plastered a poster of Moammar Gadhafi’s image on my father’s car. On that same day they had, under the dictator’s direct supervision, pub...
We are suffering pain without purpose

Mar 4, 2011

BERKELEY ― Three times in my life (so far), I have concluded that my understanding of the world was substantially wrong. The first time was after the passage in 1994 of the North America Free Trade A...
Beyond Gadhafis, revolts

Mar 4, 2011

Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi remains an obsession for advocates of decency. He personifies what is unknowable about the uprisings roiling the Arab world. What does the revolution mean, besides being...
Japan’s 2011 budget faced with hurdles

Mar 4, 2011

The Democratic Party of Japan and its junior coalition partner People’s New Party managed to pass the fiscal 2011 92.411 trillion yen budget through the Lower House early Tuesday morning. The opposit...
Taiwan needs diplomacy to get U.S. visa-waiver

Mar 4, 2011

As of January this year, Taiwanese travelers can visit the Schengen Area visa-free, marking yet another step toward the island’s goal of acquiring wider visa exemption privileges for its passport hol...
[Martin Khor] Blame game stalls Doha trade talks

Mar 4, 2011

Few really wanted it started, and now no one knows how to end it. In between there’s been almost a decade of roller-coaster of the Doha negotiations at the World Trade Organisation. Many political l...
Making the most of educational investment

Mar 3, 2011

Korean college system needs market forces The following was contributed by Daniel E. Suh, professor of economics and finance, Graduate Program for Technology and Innovation Management, Pohang Univer...
Feckless inaction on piracy off Somalia coast

Mar 3, 2011

The Obama administration put out a disturbingly weak statement last week after the latest piracy outrage off the coast of Somalia. Four Americans vacationing on a 58-foot yacht died during a standoff...
Libya uprising requires low-key U.S. response

Mar 3, 2011

The Obama administration predictably is taking heat from conservatives about its restrained response to the crisis in Libya. There are even calls for a U.S. military response to hasten dictator Muamm...
[Edward Glaeser] China: Not a carbon copy of the U.S.

Mar 3, 2011

If per capita carbon emissions in China and India rose to car-happy U.S. levels, global emissions would increase by 127 percent, according to the International Energy Agency. If their emissions stopp...
[Peter Singer] Global justice and military intervention

Mar 3, 2011

MELBOURNE ― The world has watched in horror as Libya’s Colonel Muammar el-Gadhafi uses his military to attack protesters opposed to his rule, killing hundreds or possibly thousands of unarmed civilia...