The Korea Herald

[Herald Interview] ‘Safety is taking a back seat in Korea’s vaccine rollout’

Social affairsMay 10, 2021

South Korea’s COVID-19 vaccination program has on critical occasions disregarded evidence-based approach and principles of safety first, a top infectious disease epidemiologist and vaccine expert sai...
[Herald Interview] Cosmetic surgery review app aims to capitalize on K-beauty boom

TechnologyMay 10, 2021

When walking into a restaurant, people usually have a sense about how expensive the food would be. But when it comes to cosmetic surgery clinics here, it is a different story. Not many -- perhaps no...
[Herald Interview] Anyang’s ‘Iron Man’ mayor charts ground-breaking path

Social affairsMay 9, 2021

Choi has been pushing for the completion of a smart city without hesitation. With the fourth industrial revolution introducing cutting-edge technologies like AI, big data, IOT, 5G and more, his dream...
[Herald Interview] How banking giants can survive the disruption of digitalization

MoneyMay 6, 2021

The digital transformation with purpose, however, appears to be a tall order to legacy players, as they face various constraints from the inside. Given the highly regulated nature of the financial s...
[Herald Interview] American Manganese on lookout for opportunities in Korea

IndustryMay 6, 2021

American Manganese, a Vancouver-based critical metals company, is seeking to tap into the South Korean battery market with its exclusive technology to extract key metals from defective batteries. In...
[Herald Interview] Open, inclusive Indo-Pacific is common goal: Australian envoy

Foreign affairsMay 6, 2021

Meanwhile, Raper discussed building on long-standing economic cooperation between Korea and Australia, referring to a recent forum on hydrogen energy, which was attended by key policymakers and indus...
[Herald Interview] AI inevitable force to shape education: Riiid

TechnologyMay 5, 2021

Education has always been slow to adopt new technologies. But with the COVID-19 pandemic and schools forced to move online over infection risks, the time has finally come for it to embrace the artifi...
[Herald Interview] Chun Woo-hee says she was thirsty for bright, down to earth character

FilmMay 5, 2021

“I took an online course and practiced my handwriting. So-hee writes letters backwards and in reverse order. The director saw my work and I guess he didn’t like it,” she said while laughing softly. “...
[Herald Interview] ‘Father’ director talks about the ‘invisible’ poor in Serbia

FilmMay 4, 2021

The director and Bogdan, who played Nikola, said they made sure to tread carefully while dealing with such a sensitive topic. “The biggest challenge for us was that both of us had never been in touc...
[Herald Interview] COVID-19, a perfect storm for Lime Korea

IndustryMay 3, 2021

A blessing in disguise. No other idiom can better describe what the coronavirus outbreak has meant for Lime, the world’s leading operator of rented electric scooters and bikes. When the pandemic fir...
[Herald Interview] Jeon Yeo-been thanks ‘Night in Paradise’ director for taking a chance on her

FilmMay 3, 2021

During the interview, Jeon emphasized that “Night in Paradise” is special because her character Jae-yeon is not depicted as weak and reliant on male characters. “If Jae-yeon was a character that we ...
[Herald Interview] Soprano Im Sun-hae still thirsts for the stage

MusicApr 28, 2021

In the Korean-language version of the licensed musical, Im plays the innocent, gifted soprano Christine Daae. Similar to Andrew Lloyd Weber’s hit musical “The Phantom of the Opera,” the musical is ba...
[Herald Interview] Pernod Ricard’s fight for millennials’ hearts comes with whisky and art

RetailApr 27, 2021

For the latest project with local artists, the company released a teaser in December and opened pop-up art exhibitions in February and March that mixed art and whisky, before holding an auction previ...
[Herald Interview] ‘Education should be a balanced combination of teaching and coaching’

IndustryApr 26, 2021

The education business is often equated with “teaching” -- that is, delivering facts and figures to students to advance their academic output. But according to the founder of an education-based busi...
[Herald Interview] Kang Ha-neul says he enjoyed filling in blanks in ‘Rain and Your Story’ script

FilmApr 25, 2021

Actor Kang Ha-neul said he liked the script of “Rain and Your Story” because it had blanks that he could fill in. “I like that the script did not have precise directions about the character‘s emotio...