The Korea Herald

The use of yuan as international currency

Jan 18, 2011

The dazzling steps China has taken recently to expedite wider and better use of the yuan in cross-border trade and investment mark the country’s latest efforts to make its currency truly internationa...
A new culture of giving as a social movement

Jan 18, 2011

The year of the rabbit has just begun, but in the first few weeks of 2011, it has been the tiger gaining all the attention. In a spontaneous Tiger Mask movement, anonymous citizens throughout Japan h...
[Matthew Lynn] Portuguese bailout will make euro crisis worse

Jan 18, 2011

New year, new crisis. No sooner had Europe’s bond traders, politicians and central bankers gotten back to their desks than it was time to begin tussling over the fate of a small economy on the periph...
[Aryeh Neier] Is blasphemy a form of hate speech?

Jan 18, 2011

NEW YORK ― The assassination of Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab province in Pakistan and an outspoken critic of religious extremism, has focused attention on his country’s draconian blasphemy l...
[Albert R. Hunt] GOP’s immigration stance bodes 2012 risk

Jan 18, 2011

Republicans, riding high in Washington and in most state capitals, are sitting on a time bomb: immigration. There’s a division coursing through the party; many of the Tea Party types and social cons...
[Ann Woolner] Appealing a case against Facebook

Jan 18, 2011

In the film, “The Social Network,” one of the Winklevoss twins digs in his heels when his furious brother urges a lawsuit against a fellow Harvard student for stealing their idea and turning it into ...
[Kim Seong-kon] American counterparts to the seven enigmas of Korea

Jan 18, 2011

Reading my recent column, “Seven enigmas of Korea to Westerners,” Ogan Gurel, a medical doctor who had been affiliated with Harvard and Columbia until recently joining Samsung, sent me feedback in wh...
Obama in Arizona: A time to heal our wounds

Jan 17, 2011

There are moments in a presidency when a leader delivers a speech and everyone goes about their business thereafter as if nothing happened. Other times, a president rises to the occasion in such extr...
Tampering with legal principle on citizenship

Jan 17, 2011

Legislators from five states have unveiled model legislation with complicated provisions but a simple and pernicious premise: that children born in this country aren’t citizens if their parents are i...
[William Pesek] Death of 3.5 million makes dismal economics

Jan 17, 2011

Anyone who thinks smoking isn’t government’s business should consider one number: 3.5 million. That’s how many people in the second-biggest economy will die each year from tobacco use by 2030, accor...
[David Ignatius] South Asian tinderbox getting hotter

Jan 17, 2011

NEW DELHI ― Everything is going right these days for India, except for one big problem: They’re living next to a Pakistan that is coming apart politically, and Indian leaders insist with a tone of re...
[Terry Miller] A tale of two recoveries: Germany vs. U.S.

Jan 17, 2011

Can a nation spend its way to prosperity? We don’t have to guess. The experience of two countries over the last year ― Germany and the United States ― provides an answer. Prior to last summer’s summ...
[Sen. John Kerry] Bridging the trust deficit with China

Jan 17, 2011

China’s President Hu Jintao will make a historic trip to Washington this week, appearing alongside President Obama on a stage likely to be dominated by two issues: righting the vast U.S.-China trade ...
[Nouriel Roubini] Global risk and reward in New Year

Jan 17, 2011

NEW YORK ― The outlook for the global economy in 2011 is, partly, for a persistence of the trends established in 2010. These are: an anemic, below-trend, U-shaped recovery in advanced economies, as f...
Japan, Korea must boost security cooperation

Jan 16, 2011

The time is ripe for Japan and South Korea to enhance the quality of their security cooperation, without confining it to the field of defence exchanges. Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa and his Sou...