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[Editorial] Suspicious hiring

Seoul Metro, which operates eight subway lines in the capital, turned 1,285 indefinite-term contract workers into regular employees in March. In terms of working hours, there is little difference be...

October 18, 2018
Editorial
Coupang opens Halloween-theme store

South Korean e-commerce company Coupang said Thursday that it had opened a Halloween-concept store, offering some 250,000 Halloween items. According to Coupang, there are 20 categories of products i...

October 18, 2018
Industry
[Contribution] Global warming threatens Kiribati

Climate change has now long been a global and growing conundrum. Calls for immediate action have resulted in governments and organizations undertaking initiatives to mitigate the effects. However, th...

October 17, 2018
World News
[팟캐스트] (269) 문재인 대통령 수소차 시승, 이병헌 시상식 우승

(Yonhap) 진행자 : 김보경, Kevin Lee Selzer 1. President Moon test rides Hyundai Nexo FCEV in Paris 기사요약: 프랑스를 국빈 방문 중인 문재인 대통령이, 현지시각 지난 일요일 오후 파리에서 현대자동차의 수소전기차인 넥쏘 시승 후, 투싼 수소전기차를 택시로 운행 중인 현지 택시 운전사가...

October 17, 2018
Podcast
[Joseph E. Stiglitz] People vs. money in America’s midterm elections

All eyes are on the United States as November’s Congressional elections approach. The outcome will answer many alarming questions raised two years ago, when Donald Trump won the presidential election...

October 17, 2018
Columnists
[Jennifer Huddleston Skees] Tech is new scary story -- but why?

It’s October, which means our televisions and theaters are full of stories of supernatural mayhem. More recently shows like “Black Mirror” and movies like “Ready Player One” portray mayhem wrought no...

October 17, 2018
Columnists
[Editorial] Too hasty

Despite the ups and downs, it is good the Korean peace process has abated fears of war on the peninsula and brightened prospects for resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis peacefully. But this sho...

October 17, 2018
Editorial
Why is #ARMYIndependenceDay trending?

BTS’ global fandom Army has responded to a different view expressed by some K-pop and non-BTS fans by posting tweets with a sense of humor, resulting in the trending of the hashtag #ARMYIndependenceD...

October 17, 2018
Music
[Alan Bollard] A decade of disruption comes home to roost

Over the last decade, we have learned that a serious banking failure with risky balance sheets can feed into a major international financial crisis. That, in turn, is big enough to cause an economic ...

October 16, 2018
Columnists
[Editorial] Perilous peace

Concerns over the inter-Korean military agreement adopted in Pyongyang on Sept. 19 have not eased much. The clause to establish a no-fly zone is probably the most risky. Due to the zone over the mi...

October 16, 2018
Editorial
[On the Bar] Recent trends in amendment of domestic legislations and response measures to GDPR

On the Bar is a regular column written by attorneys at Yoon & Yang LLC on various laws and regulations that affect running a business in Korea. The content provided here is general legal information....

October 16, 2018
Industry
Korean businesses venture into ASEAN in search of new opportunities

Seeking new opportunities amid intensifying competition and a shift in the industrial and manufacturing landscape, South Korean businesses are jumping into new markets in the ASEAN region in line wit...

October 15, 2018
Industry
Family of three found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning at campsite

A family of three was found dead at a campsite in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, Sunday night. (Yonhap) According to local authorities, the bodies of an 84-year-old man and his two sons, both...

October 15, 2018
Social affairs
[Edoardo Campanella] Is pensioner populism here to stay?

The right-wing populism that has emerged in many Western democracies in recent years could turn out to be much more than a blip on the political landscape. Beyond the Great Recession and the migratio...

October 15, 2018
Columnists
[Peter Singer] Choosing best students

In different countries and for different reasons, university admissions policies are under attack. In a Boston courtroom on Oct. 15, a judge will begin hearing a lawsuit claiming that Harvard’s admis...

October 15, 2018
Columnists

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