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[Contribution] Health communication and COVID-19 pandemic

World NewsNov 9, 2020

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has changed all of our lives forever. Just a year ago, none of us would have thought that the world would have to face this unbelievable reality. Nonetheless, here we ar...
[Jan-Werner Mueller] Truth and de-Trumpification under a Biden presidency

ViewpointsNov 9, 2020

Among Democrats and many Republicans, there is a great temptation to dismiss US President Donald Trump’s administration as a bizarre aberration. Just as Republicans may try to blame the many transgre...
[Eric Posne] Joe Biden’s precarious victory

ViewpointsNov 9, 2020

Joe Biden has survived a grueling election campaign and a cliff-hanger election. Next, he must fend off legal challenges from US President Donald Trump’s campaign. While he will most likely enter the...
[Editorial] Principled stance

EditorialNov 9, 2020

With US President-elect Joe Biden set to enter the White House on Jan. 20, calls are rising here for Seoul to craft an approach befitting his emphasis on “principled diplomacy.” Under a Biden admini...
[Photo News] Luminous, luxurious Christmas tree

IndustryNov 8, 2020

Italian luxury fashion brand Fendi’s chandelier-concept Christmas tree is lit up in front of the Galleria Department Store’s eastern Luxury Hall in Apgujeong-dong, southern Seoul. (Yonhap) ( khnews...
[Diana’s Table] Fried chicken wings with ginger soy sauce

Food&BeverageNov 8, 2020

I start this series with my favorite fried chicken recipe because people of all ages love it. Anything fried just tastes better, but it is more than that. Fried chicken is arguably one of the most p...
[Monitor] Online shopping transactions in Sept. biggest on record

IndustryNov 6, 2020

According to Statistics Korea this week, the volume of transactions made via online shopping reached 14.72 trillion won in September, marking the largest since the agency began collecting relevant da...
[Editorial] Tax politics

EditorialNov 6, 2020

The government is planning to reduce property taxes for individuals who own one home valued at 600 million won ($530,000) or less. Earlier, the ruling Democratic Party of Korea -- mindful of the mu...
[News Focus] How will Korean industries fare with new US president?

IndustryNov 5, 2020

Uncertainty hangs on the hook for the telecommunications equipment sector in Korea, as local network equipment providers will have to observe how the new president will push ahead with policies regar...
[Monitor] Rise of women in C-suite, still long way to go

IndustryNov 5, 2020

Among 6,871 executive-level members of South Korea’s top 100 companies by revenue, 286 of them are women, according to a report by global headhunting firm Unico Search on Wednesday. This accounted f...
[Advertising Awards] Seoul Foreign School carries on century-old legacy of educational excellence

EducationNov 5, 2020

It is a privilege, on behalf of Seoul Foreign School and our Communications and Marketing team, to accept this honor from The Korea Herald celebrating our efforts in educational advertising. Seoul F...
[Shin Yeol-woo] Korea’s fire service has no nationality and border

ViewpointsNov 5, 2020

Defining the modern society as a risk society, risk management scholars insist one of the visible characteristics of the risk society is unidentified risk factors increasing while borders between cou...
[Editorial] Thorough scrutiny

EditorialNov 5, 2020

The National Assembly this week undertook deliberations on the government-proposed budget for 2021, which is set at a record 555.8 trillion won ($489.2 billion), up 8.5 percent from this year. On Mo...
[Advertising Awards] What makes a digital marketer shine?

IndustryNov 5, 2020

This is the era of fourth industrial revolution. Traditional marketing platforms are rapidly receding in their stature now that we have big data-based artificial intelligence entering the realm of de...
[Monitor] Contrasting sales performance of Korean carmakers

IndustryNov 4, 2020

Korea’s five finished automobile companies showed contrasting sales performance results in October compared to their respective reports in the same month last year. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic’s crip...