The Korea Herald

[Brian Blase] Repealing new entitlements to reduce deficit

Feb 1, 2011

In his State of the Union address, President Obama said that repealing his health-care law would increase the deficit by $230 billion. While technically true according to Congressional Budget Office ...
[Kim Seong-kon] Funny car names and awkward titles

Feb 1, 2011

Cultural differences often inspire harmless laughter among individuals. For example, rumors say that the Americans’ favorite car, the Chevy Nova, did not sell in South America because Nova literally ...
Welcome policy of checking housing prices

Jan 31, 2011

China’s State Council document released on Thursday to further check housing prices reflects the central government’s determination to deflate the property market bubble and stabilize or even lower r...
Information glitch for bullet-train operation

Jan 31, 2011

The suspension of all bullet train service Jan. 17 on JR East’s five shinkansen lines ― Tohoku, Akita, Yamagata, Joetsu and Nagano shinkansen lines ― reminds railways and any organization, for that m...
[Trudy Rubin] Old order finally ending in Mideast

Jan 31, 2011

For years, many Middle Easterners have operated on the premise that things could continue as in the past. Arab autocrats assumed they could rule forever, and many Israelis thought they could occupy f...
[Steven Hill] China’s baby steps for democracy

Jan 31, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. ― During the state visit to the United States of Chinese President Hu Jintao, President Barack Obama pressed Hu on human rights. He probably should have asked more about spreading de...
[Meghan Daum] ‘Skins’ MTV episodes pass an ick test

Jan 31, 2011

Even if you haven’t watched MTV since Duran Duran broke up, you’ve probably heard of “Skins.” It premiered on Jan. 17 amid a fanfare of anticipation after the Parents Television Council pronounced it...
[Jeb Bush and Newt Gingrich] States should have option of bankruptcy protection

Jan 31, 2011

During the 2008 financial crisis, the federal government reacted in a frantic, ad-hoc fashion, tapping taxpayers for bailouts galore, running roughshod over the rights of bondholders and catching the...
[Kavi Chongkittavorn] Can withering Taiwan engage ASEAN?

Jan 31, 2011

The mood in Taipei today is of concern and anxiety. Why? The Taiwanese lai bai xing (commoners) feel quite strongly that the world’s soon-to-be largest economy will eventually usurp up their island, ...
Stuxnet signals start of new kind of arms race

Jan 30, 2011

The tale of the Stuxnet worm is one of those seemingly good-news stories that grows more worrisome over time. Security experts first became aware of the mysterious Stuxnet malware last summer, but i...
[James M. Banner Jr.] Amendment rooted in past failures

Jan 30, 2011

There’s a move afoot to give the states the authority to repeal measures enacted by Congress and signed by the president. It’s a bad idea. It’s also dishonorable. The measure, led by Republican Rep....
[DAVID IGNATIUS] Keeping a guarded eye on Arab revolt

Jan 30, 2011

DAVOS, Switzerland ― It’s a sign of the times that some Arab journalists attending the gathering of international power brokers here were spending their free time scanning Twitter messages about poli...
[Yves Mersch] Seeking to prevent the euro’s next crisis

Jan 30, 2011

LUXEMBOURG ― Much dedication and energy are currently being devoted to institutionalizing a crisis-management mechanism for the euro area. This is a good and important goal. But a far more significan...
[Bogdan Kipling] Intrusive screenings are necessary for our overall safety

Jan 30, 2011

WASHINGTON ― Just like children forced to take castor oil hated the experience, millions of Americans loathed the intrusive body-scan and pat-down security measures imposed at U.S. airports last fall...
[Robert B. Reich] The sorry state of U.S. economic union

Jan 30, 2011

In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, the president talked at length about the economy. What he failed to point out is that America now has two economies, and only one of them is recoverin...