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[Letter to the Editor] Please do us a favor, by not going to the Hwacheon Sancheoneo (Mountain Trout) Ice festival.

If your idea of a good holiday is taking part in the mass killing of fish, brought in from farms to be crammed like sardines into a river -- blocked and sealed solely for this purpose -- awaiting tho...

January 10, 2019
Columnists
[Editorial] Job policy backfires

Job data released by Statistics Korea on Wednesday show the employment policy of the Moon Jae-in administration has backfired. The number of jobs increased 97,000 on-year in 2018, dipping below 100,...

January 10, 2019
Editorial
Full text of President Moon's New Year speech

Fellow Koreans, Around this time last year, I visited the Jincheon National Training Center to pray for the success of the PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games. From the Opening Ceremony until the Clos...

January 10, 2019
Politics
[Editorial] Busy year

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s visit to China heralds brisk diplomatic maneuvers ahead over how to end the country’s nuclear threat. Most of all, the visit, set to end Thursday, further heightene...

January 9, 2019
Editorial
[J. Bradford DeLong] What will cause next US recession?

Over the past 40 years, the US economy has experienced four recessions. Among the four, only the extended downturn of 1979-1982 had a conventional cause. The US Federal Reserve thought that inflation...

January 9, 2019
Columnists
[Virginia Heffernan] Women take US Congress, misogynists lash out

Just over a year ago, a writer named Kristen Roupenian published a short story in the New Yorker called “Cat Person.” It chronicled a brief, mediocre romance. At first, it was hard to say what made t...

January 9, 2019
Columnists
[팟캐스트] (281) CES 롤러블 TV, 설연휴 기차표

(Yonhap) 진행자: 배현정, Paul Kerry 1.LG Electronics wows world with industry’s first rollable OLED TV 기사 요약 : 미국 라스베가스에서 열린 CES 2019에서 LG전자가 ‘돌돌 말리는’롤러블 TV를 발표해서 업계의 주목을 받았다. 아이튠즈 (아이폰): https://itun...

January 9, 2019
Podcast
Apple thanks Korean police for seizing fake accessories

US tech giant Apple is planning to present a plaque to officers at a local police unit to express its gratitude for their efforts to prevent the sale of fake accessories worth 1 billion won ($892,000...

January 9, 2019
Automode
Financial authorities reverse decision to delist Kyung Nam Pharm

South Korea’s Kosdaq Market Committee on Tuesday scrapped Korea Exchange’s plan to delist local pharmaceuticals company Kyung Nam Pharm from the second-tier Kosdaq market, instead giving the company ...

January 8, 2019
Finance
[Editorial] Yet another defector

Seoul, Pyongyang and Washington have remained tight-lipped about the disappearance of North Korea’s acting ambassador to Italy, who seems to be yet another high-level defector from the oppressive reg...

January 8, 2019
Editorial
[Joseph E. Stiglitz] From ‘yellow vests’ to Green New Deal

It’s old news that large segments of society have become deeply unhappy with what they see as “the establishment,” especially the political class. The “yellow vest” protests in France, triggered by P...

January 8, 2019
Columnists
KT, Chungbuk National University, Lotte, SKT top user satisfaction: NCSI

Customer satisfaction for companies and universities in South Korea reached an all-time high in 2018 despite challenging economic situations, a recent survey by the Korea Productivity Center showed. ...

January 8, 2019
Industry
[Peter Lewin] Reducing deficit would solve Trump’s China trade imbalance problem

In light of US President Donald Trump’s current trade policy, it is perhaps worthwhile to review some common-sense principles about international trade. The most basic and important principle is th...

January 7, 2019
Columnists
[Thomas Spoehr] Five deadly myths of defense spending

It’s both necessary and healthy for the 116th Congress to have a full debate on defense funding. Unfortunately, it’s a near certainty that some members of Congress will muddle that debate by trotting...

January 7, 2019
Columnists
[Editorial] Stop war of nerves

Conflicts between South Korea and Japan are growing. Their cooperation is required to resolve the problem of North Korea’s nuclear weapons, among others, and prosper together economically, but they a...

January 7, 2019
Editorial

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