The Korea Herald

Egypt is the next Iran? Utter, total nonsense

Feb 9, 2011

Events in Egypt are seesawing so quickly it is difficult to assess if the current trajectory points toward gradually escalating violence or a more orderly transition that will end President’s Hosni M...
Battle lines between ‘clean’ and ‘dirty’ energy

Feb 9, 2011

During the State of the Union address, President Barack Obama challenged the nation to invest in clean-energy technologies so the U.S. would “out-compete” and “out-innovate” the rest of the world. I...
[William Pesek] ‘Goldman Sachs with guns’ joins sumo on ropes

Feb 9, 2011

Events in Egypt have journalists around the world asking: Hmmm, could that happen here? In Tokyo, the answer is no. The student riots of 1968 remind us never to say never. The thought of today’s you...
[Shashi Tharoor] The Arabs and the democratic choice

Feb 9, 2011

NEW DELHI ― Egypt’s fate has had the world riveted in recent days to newspapers and televisions, as the unfolding consequences of Tunisia’s “Jasmine Revolution” seem to portend a wave like the libera...
[Frida Ghitis] Where’s the revolution’s silver lining?

Feb 9, 2011

The revolution unfolding in Egypt and other Arab lands has set Israeli hearts racing with anxiety. There are so many ways in which regime change in Egypt could prove calamitous for Israel that it’s h...
[Kevin Hassett] M.E. freedom carries cost we all might pay

Feb 9, 2011

For the most part, economic markets have shrugged while the turmoil in Egypt has escalated. If President George W. Bush was right about the long-term impact of the Iraq War, that might change. We ma...
[Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Michel D.Kazatchkine] Withdrawing from the war on drugs

Feb 9, 2011

GENEVA ― Switzerland’s direct democracy allows citizens who have gathered enough petition signatures to challenge government policies and laws in nationwide referenda. After a spate of AIDS deaths du...
Japan needs social security reform proposals

Feb 8, 2011

The government and the ruling coalition parties on Saturday launched a new panel of experts chaired by Prime Minister Naoto Kan to discuss social security reform. We will wait and see how detailed a...
Brave people put Egypt on path to freer society

Feb 8, 2011

We should all be Egyptians today. We should all be in solidarity with those thousands of courageous people who exercised fundamental rights to speech and assembly and moved a dictator to declare that...
[Kavi Chongkittavorn] Can U.S.-led drill be expanded?

Feb 8, 2011

From a humble beginning as a joint military exercise between Thailand and the U.S. involving selective personnel of the Marine Corps in 1982, the Cobra Gold has become the world’s largest operation o...
[Lee Jae-min] Stay vigilant when exports hit record

Feb 8, 2011

Korea’s annual exports set a new record of $466.4 billion last year and semiconductors did it again. Statistics just released by the Korean Customs Service listed semiconductors as the country’s No. ...
[Chris Monday] The paranoid style of U.S. foreign policy

Feb 8, 2011

Inspired by Tom Paine, Americans have fermented revolution around the globe. From Prague to Tiananmen, expanding the will of the people has been a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy. But this princip...
[Anne Michaud] The world has passed U.S. students by

Feb 8, 2011

In these days of tiger-mother hysteria about raising children with academic backbone, President Barack Obama has weighed in with yet another cause for paranoia. The president dropped India and China ...
[Kim Seong-kon] What to do with bullies around us?

Feb 8, 2011

Koreans are very proud of the recent successful rescue of the sailors of the Samho Jewelry by the UDT (Korea’s equivalent of the U.S. SEAL team). Instead of yielding to the Somali pirates’ demand for...
Fairer economic growth to escape income trap

Feb 7, 2011

With its per capita gross domestic product rising to about 30,000 yuan ($4,500), China is at a critical point if it is to avoid the middle income trap and push living standards closer to those of ric...