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[June H.L. Wong] Silenced like lambs

Just as bosses hate dealing with difficult employees, governments hate difficult citizens. Employers as a last resort can sack their recalcitrant staff, but that’s not an option for governments, muc...

November 4, 2018
Columnists
[Editorial] Expedite legislation

The Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of conscientious objectors to military service has aroused public uproar. Hundreds of online petitions against the ruling have appeared on the presidential office...

November 4, 2018
Editorial
[Exclusive] Angelina Jolie spotted at Korean barbecue restaurant in Seoul

What is Angelina Jolie doing in Seoul? American actress Angelina Jolie has been spotted in a restaurant in Samcheong-dong, a traditional area in central Seoul, by a number of people who shared her p...

November 2, 2018
Film
[Editorial] Acid test of diplomacy

It is inevitable that Korea-Japan relations will be impacted by the Supreme Court’s ruling that Japan’s Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. should compensate four South Koreans for forced labor durin...

November 1, 2018
Editorial
[Trudy Rubin] Will China eclipse US in high-tech innovation by 2025?

One reason for the fashionable fear that Beijing is out to overtake America is the worry that China will soon outstrip the United States in key areas of technology. Chinese President Xi Jinping fann...

October 31, 2018
Columnists
[Editorial] In step with the world

The decision of South Korea and the US to launch a working group on North Korea reflects Washington’s concerns about the pace of Seoul’s efforts to improve ties with Pyongyang in the absence of a sub...

October 31, 2018
Editorial
Korean Air introduces ways to spend mileage for trips, hotel reservations

South Korea’s leading air carrier Korean Air has introduced ways to efficiently use its Korean Air SkyPass mileage system. According to Korean Air, miles earned on the air carrier or partner airline...

October 31, 2018
Industry
Golfzon launches membership program

Golfzon, South Korea’s leading golf simulator maker, has launched a new membership discount offer for golfers playing with its simulators or visiting golf courses. Advertisement for Golf Daddy (Golf...

October 31, 2018
Industry
[팟캐스트] (271) 일제시대 강제징용 배상 판결, 씨름 유네스코 무형유산 등재 권고

(Yonhap) 진행자: 윤민식, Kevin Lee Seizer 1. Court orders Japan firm to compensate wartime forced laborers 기사요약: 대법원이 30일, 일제 강제징용 피해자들의 배상청구권을 인정했다. 유가족 대표 등 피해자 측에서 이와 같은 판결을 환영하고 한국 정부가 법원의 판결을 존중하겠다...

October 31, 2018
Podcast
Herald Artday to hold offline auction

Herald Artday, a subsidiary of Herald Corp., is holding an offline auction on Nov. 14 at uJung Art Center in southern Seoul. The art auction will comprise 122 works, covering a wide range of art by ...

October 31, 2018
Arts&Design
[Editorial] Half-baked plans

Local governments recently poured out policies to expand free child care and free school lunch provisions. Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon on Monday unveiled a plan to provide free lunches to students of ...

October 30, 2018
Editorial
[Robert Mahoney] Stop killing the messenger

What does it cost to silence a muckraking reporter? In the Philippines in 2011, officials needed just $250 to buy the services of a journalist-slaying gunman. In Slovakia, Jan Kuciak and his fiancee ...

October 30, 2018
Columnists
[Justin Fox] If you ignore the news, America actually seems pretty nice

So I’ve been doing a lot of driving lately. First I drove from New York to the San Francisco suburb of Lafayette, California, via New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iow...

October 30, 2018
Columnists
[Advertorial] Eximbank promotes companies’ chances for knowledge sharing abroad

The state-led Export-Import Bank of Korea on Tuesday held a conference targeting local small and midsized enterprises to promote their opportunities to be engaged in a state-sponsored knowledge shari...

October 30, 2018
Finance
[Eli Lake] Why Egypt’s exiles are especially terrified

For the last six years, Nancy Okail has led a relatively safe life in exile. As the executive director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, she had a high enough profile that she didn’t wo...

October 29, 2018
Columnists

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