The Korea Herald

[Lee Mun-ki] Citizens bring life to park

Aug 12, 2020

Couples taking a walk with their dogs in the neighboring park after work, parents vigorously riding bicycles with their children in the fresh air at a lake park on weekends, neighbors occasionally wa...
[Kim Seong-kon] Memorable phrases in films

Aug 12, 2020

We tend to think that movies are merely a form of entertainment, but this is only partially true. In fact, a film is an excellent cultural text and an important social document. Furthermore, a film i...
[Shang-Jin Wei] The US may lose in Trump’s TikTok war

Aug 11, 2020

Following US President Donald Trump’s vow to block US access to TikTok, the popular short-video app’s Chinese parent company ByteDance has been in frantic talks with Microsoft, presumably to sell its...
[J. Bradford DeLong] Morgue testing the US economy

Aug 11, 2020

US national income and output in the first quarter of 2020 was 1.25 percent below what it had been in the fourth quarter of 2019, but still 9.5 percent above what it would be by the second quarter of...
[Sarah Halzack] Summer of COVID-19 marks the end of office clothes

Aug 10, 2020

Professional attire has been evolving for decades into ever more casual modes. For men, suits gave way to blazers and slacks, then blazers and dark jeans, and then just jeans and a button-up. For wom...
[Tyler Cowen] Coronavirus moralizing has to stop

Aug 10, 2020

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[Seth G. Jones & Juan C. Zarate] US faces new threats, but we have failed to adapt

Aug 7, 2020

It has now been more than five months since a US intelligence assessment included in President Donald Trump’s Daily Brief suggested that Russia was paying bounties to Taliban fighters for attacking U...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Europe’s vulnerable ‘last dictator’

Aug 7, 2020

In an era of authoritarian populists, at least one iron-fisted leader is looking more vulnerable than he has in decades. Yes, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko will claim another resounding vic...
[Digital Simplicity] Lost in translation due to raging dispute over mobile game

Aug 6, 2020

Once in a while, a well-made game hits the market, gets mostly positive reviews from gamers and rakes in handsome profits over an extended period. To achieve this daunting goal, it must have two main...
[Eli Lake] Biden should give Maduro reason to worry

Aug 6, 2020

One of the defining features of the Trump years has been the collapse of bipartisan consensus on foreign policy. There is at least one notable exception, however: support for a democratic transition ...
[Noah Smith] Developing nations are dealt a one-two hit to growth

Aug 6, 2020

Recent decades have been glorious for developing countries, where rapid growth has lifted millions of their citizens out of crushing poverty. But the coronavirus pandemic is threatening to halt their...
[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...
[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 ...
[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...