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July 17, 2019 Economy

[Monitor] Koreans make up 24.1% of Japan visitors: data

With boycotts of Japanese products becoming more widespread in South Korea in response to Tokyo’s export restrictions, accompanied by calls to stop visiting the neighboring country in a show of prote...

[Editorial] Be frank

Japan is taking steps to remove South Korea from a list of countries being provided preferential export treatment for Japanese-made strategic goods. Tokyo may well stop the move because it lacks legi...

July 17, 2019
Editorial
[팟캐스트] (309) 직장내 괴롭힘 방지법 시행 / 국내 기업, 일본 수출규제에 비상대책 마련

진행자: 김보경, Kevin Lee Selzer 1. Workplace anti-bullying law takes effect 기사요약: 직장 내 괴롭힘 금지법이 7월 16일 시행됐다. 이 법이 시행됨에 따라 사용자나 근로자가 지위나 관계 우위를 이용해 다른 근로자에게 업무상 적정 범위를 넘어선 신체적, 정신적 고통을 주거나 근무 환경을 악화시키는 행...

July 17, 2019
Podcast
[Editorial] Adjustments needed

President Moon Jae-in should not feel too sorry for failing to keep his election pledge to increase the minimum wage to 10,000 won ($8.47) per hour within the first three years of his five-year term....

July 16, 2019
Editorial
[Contribution] Need to make traditional liquor Korea’s representative brand

While on a plane back from an overseas trip to an exhibition on rural food, I asked without a great deal of anticipation whether the in-flight service includes Korean traditional liquor, besides wine...

July 15, 2019
Industry
[Editorial] Lax military discipline

A suspicious man spotted inside a base of the Navy’s 2nd Fleet Command in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, turned out to be one of its soldiers. Fortunately, the command had not been infiltrated. But ...

July 15, 2019
Editorial
[Markos Kounalakis] As British envoy just learned, loose lips sink diplomats

If the truth can set you free, then the British ambassador to Washington is now free as a bird. Unfortunately for him, he will no longer be soaring over America’s capital or hovering anywhere near th...

July 14, 2019
Columnists
[Editorial] Too farfetched

One good way to resolve a bilateral dispute is to leave the issue to the judgement of an independent third party. This could be applied to both individuals and nations. It is against this backdrop t...

July 14, 2019
Editorial
[Yuji Hosaka] Legitimacy of Korean Supreme Court’s verdict on former forced laborers

In October last year, the Korean Supreme Court ordered the Japanese company Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. to pay 100 million won ($85,000) each to four Koreans who were forced to work for the c...

July 11, 2019
Columnists
[Elizabeth Drew] Could the Democrats blow it?

The unprecedentedly large number of candidates -- 25 at last count -- for the Democratic nomination to take on US President Donald Trump in 2020 has led to an awkward opening to the contest. The numb...

July 11, 2019
Columnists
[Editorial] Missing role

Missing from the scene of an escalating dispute over Japan’s export restrictions against South Korea is the US role in easing tensions between its two key Asian allies. Washington’s prolonged silenc...

July 11, 2019
Editorial
[J. Bradford DeLong] Is plutocracy really the problem?

Why did the policy response to the Great Recession only partly reflect the lessons learned from the Great Depression? Until recently, the smart money was on the answers given by the Financial Times c...

July 10, 2019
Columnists
[Editorial] Pro-corporate turn

President Moon Jae-in held a meeting with heads of the country’s top 30 conglomerates on Wednesday to discuss Japan’s restrictions on exports of high-tech materials to South Korea. The meeting held ...

July 10, 2019
Editorial
Wealth of Korean rich shed amid trade woes: Forbes

Caught in the crossfire of the China-US trade war, export-reliant South Korea saw a steep decline in overseas shipments, and a consequent decline in the wealth among the members of the rich-list, For...

July 10, 2019
Economy
[Editorial] Stop the madness

The public rage over a South Korean man who has been taken into custody for beating his Vietnamese-born wife should alert government officials and lawmakers on the need to devise measures to protect ...

July 9, 2019
Editorial

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