The Korea Herald

[Ivo Daalder] What Pompeo gets right about China

Aug 5, 2020

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to the Nixon Presidential Library last week to proclaim the American opening to China a grand failure. “What do the American people have to show now 50 years o...
[Kim Seong-kon] Good intentions may bring bad outcomes

Aug 5, 2020

We tend to believe we are doing the right thing when our intentions are good. Often enough, however, we realize in retrospect that we were wrong at the time despite our good intentions. This is espec...
[Clara Ferreira Marques, Matthew Brooker] Hong Kong takes the zero-risk poll option

Aug 4, 2020

Hong Kong’s decision to bar a dozen pro-democracy candidates from contesting legislative elections and then to postpone the vote by a year won’t leave its economic prospects unscathed. It’s a strikin...
[Faye Flam] US can control COVID-19 without second lockdown

Aug 4, 2020

Rising COVID-19 case counts across the US have made a second lockdown seem almost inevitable. It is likely to be months before a vaccine could end the coronavirus pandemic, and the US is also months ...
[Kwon Soon-yong] Telemedicine in the era of post-COVID-19

Aug 3, 2020

As the coronavirus crisis emerged, South Korea distinguished itself on the global stage on the basis of its excellent health care system, quality of medical staff and personnel, and most of all, the ...
[Serendipity] Turn crisis into opportunity for arts

Jul 31, 2020

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has raged on for more than seven months now, it was said that there would be a plethora of books about the time of the novel coronavirus in the years...
[Robert J. Fouser] Sejong City back in limelight again

Jul 31, 2020

Sejong City is back in the limelight. Politicians of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, are rallying behind a proposal to move the president, the National Assembly, and government ministries from ...
[Jean Pisani-Ferry] Challenges of post-pandemic agenda

Jul 30, 2020

There is a growing possibility that the COVID-19 crisis will mark the end of the growth model born four decades ago with the Reagan-Thatcher revolution, China’s embrace of capitalism, and the demise ...
[Kim Myong-sik] Pandemic provides excuse for return to nuclear energy

Jul 30, 2020

Former Korea Exchange Chairman Hong In-kie devoted his life after public service to research on international energy issues. While teaching at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, ...
[Michael R. Strain] Keep your eye on the ball, Republicans

Jul 29, 2020

Senate Republicans are in conspicuous disarray following last week’s failed effort to unify behind a package of economic recovery measures. In part, that’s because Republican senators are too defere...
[Kim Seong-kon] Waiting for Korea’s ‘New Mutants’

Jul 29, 2020

In 1964, Leslie Fiedler, a distinguished American literary critic, announced the advent of the Age of the New Mutants. In his monumental essay, “The New Mutants,” Fielder envisioned the American yout...
[Mihir Sharma] Poor countries running out of time to get rich

Jul 28, 2020

The United Nations currently predicts that by 2027, India will overtake China as the world’s most populous country. Estimates suggest India and Nigeria will together add 470 million people in the nex...
[Philippe Legrain] Europe’s recovery fund doesn’t address deepest problems

Jul 28, 2020

After four days and nights of tough negotiations and many painful compromises, European leaders have reached a deal on a groundbreaking 750 billion euros ($868 billion) recovery fund. As a gesture of...
[Daniel Moss, Clara Ferreira Marques] Thailand needs a shake up to emerge from COVID-19 war

Jul 27, 2020

Thailand has been playing by the rules and getting little benefit from obeying economic orthodoxy. A reshuffle among top policymakers after a string of departures, just as the nation emerges from cor...
[Digital Simplicity] Paid advertisements disguised as ‘honest’ reviews on YouTube

Jul 26, 2020

Fashion stylist Han Hye-yeon and singer Kang Min-kyung recently came under a storm of criticism for their failure to reveal that what they promote on their YouTube channels are actually product place...