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[Editorial] Stock debacle

Samsung Securities’ erroneous dividend payment on April 6 is a preposterous accident that has left a big mark on investors’ confidence in the Korean stock market. The company wrongly issued 2.8 bil...

April 11, 2018
Editorial
[Eli Lake] Expect Trump to strike Syrian forces again

If the past is a prelude, we should expect a US strike sometime soon against Syrian airfields. A little more than a year ago, Syrian forces gassed rebels. The grotesque crime earned a condemnation ...

April 10, 2018
Columnists
[Joseph E. Stiglitz] Trump’s trade confusion about multilateral trade

The trade skirmish between the United States and China on steel, aluminum and other goods is a product of US President Donald Trump’s scorn for multilateral trade arrangements and the World Trade Org...

April 10, 2018
Columnists
[Gerald Kamens] The citizenship question

Over two decades ago, I relentlessly pursued a few score folks, who -- for reasons of forgetfulness, fear, apathy, orneriness, principle or a combination thereof -- had neglected or deliberately refu...

April 10, 2018
Columnists
[Editorial] Heed criticisms

With controversies simmering over the appointment of Kim Ki-sik as governor of the Financial Supervisory Service, Cheong Wa Dae shows characteristic intransigence again, as is often the case with its...

April 10, 2018
Editorial
[Editorial] Close the back door

China apparently began to relax UN sanctions against North Korea after their summit on March 26. Radio Free Asia, quoting an ethnic Korean living in Yanbian Autonomous Prefecture in Jinlin province,...

April 9, 2018
Editorial
[Monitor] LG Electronics‘ operating profit jumps 20 percent

LG Electronics posted an operating profit of 1.1 trillion won ($1.03 billion) in the first quarter, a 20 percent increase from last year, the company said Friday. Its sales also grew 3.2 percent to 1...

April 8, 2018
Industry
[Jonathan Zimmerman] Where does MLK fit in today’s #MeToo world?

Last November, students protesting sexual violence at Morehouse College in Atlanta defaced a church named after the school’s most famous graduate. The Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel was spray-painted ...

April 8, 2018
Columnists
[Daniel Griswold] There’s no ‘pot of gold’ at the end of a trade war with China

Amid our escalating trade war with China, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, tried to assure investors that, despite roiling stock markets, a “pot of gold” lies at the end o...

April 8, 2018
Columnists
[Martin Schram] How Trump, down to last option, got tough on Putin

Finally, and most unexpectedly, President Donald J. Trump climaxed yet another wacky, whipsawing week by doing the one thing even his handwringing, privately-panicky fellow Republicans never really b...

April 8, 2018
Columnists
[Editorial] History repeats itself

Koreans have got accustomed to seeing former leaders stand trial for wrongdoings they committed while in office. Nevertheless, the verdict on former President Park Geun-hye made many shudder again wi...

April 8, 2018
Editorial
China urges EU to ‘act together’ against US protectionism

BRUSSELS, April 6, 2018 (AFP) - China on Friday called on the European Union to take a joint stand against US protectionism as the tit-for-tat trade rift between Washington and Beijing threatened to ...

April 6, 2018
International
GS E&C’s operating profit surge six-fold in Q1

GS Engineering & Construction Co., a major South Korean builder, said Friday that its first-quarter operating profit jumped to more than six times its profit a year earlier. For the three months end...

April 6, 2018
Industry
[Editorial] Weathering storm

Trade tensions between the US and China are escalating, although it is still early to determine if it will become a full-scale economic war between the world’s two biggest powers. In the latest in a...

April 6, 2018
Editorial
[Pritzker & Gutierrez] US Census not about citizenship

As former secretaries of commerce, with direct oversight of the US Census Bureau, we have grave concerns about the proposed addition of a citizenship question to the decennial census in 2020. If incl...

April 6, 2018
Columnists

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