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[Editorial] Hanoi summit

The decision by US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to meet again later this month is brightening prospects of a diplomatic solution for the North’s nuclear threat. It is to...

February 12, 2019
Editorial
[Photo News] Most expensive land in Korea

(Yonhap) The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has revealed Tuesday that the most expensive real estate in South Korea is the Nature Republic cosmetics store located in Myeong-dong, Seo...

February 12, 2019
Economy
[Photo News] BMW to sponsor Coach Park

Vietnam national soccer team head coach Park Hang-seo (right) and Kwon Oh-soo, chairman of Deutsch Motors, BMW’s local dealer, pose for a photo next to a BMW X4 vehicle at a ceremony in Seoul on Tues...

February 12, 2019
Industry
[Monitor] Samsung expected to pay $15b corporate tax this year

Samsung Electronics is expected to cough up some 16.8 trillion won ($15 billion) in corporate tax this year, its regulatory briefing showed. This is up 20.1 percent from the previous year, and 2.4 ti...

February 12, 2019
Economy
[Editorial] Messy contest

The leadership contest for the main opposition Liberty Korea Party is being rattled by two factors that have no direct bearing on how to choose the best person to steer the party through next year’s ...

February 11, 2019
Editorial
[Peter Singer] Money from opioid sales and tainted philanthropy

In 2017, life expectancy in the United States fell for the third successive year. The decline is occurring because an increase in the death rate for middle-aged whites is offsetting lower mortality f...

February 11, 2019
Columnists
[Hussein Ibish] What Iran means to Arab world

Iran has represented many things to many people during its 40 years of Islamic revolution. To the Arab world that surrounds it today, it’s both a danger and an excuse. Arab reaction to the 1979 Iran...

February 11, 2019
Columnists
[Jonathan Bernstein] Trump wants vacancies in his cabinet lineup

Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced his resignation on Dec. 20. He left the job at the end of the year. That was seven weeks ago, and President Donald Trump has not nominated a permane...

February 11, 2019
Columnists
[J. Bradford DeLong] Debt derangement syndrome

For the past decade, politics in the Global North have been in a state of high madness owing to excessive fear of government debts and deficits. But two recent straws in the wind suggest that this ma...

February 11, 2019
Columnists
[Leonid Bershidsky] In Finland, money can buy you happiness

The first results of Finland’s two-year experiment with a universal basic income are in, and if they’re confirmed by further research, they will probably hurt the unconditional income cause. The tria...

February 11, 2019
Columnists
[Editorial] Risky demands

The Renault Group recently issued a warning to the labor union at its South Korean affiliate Renault Samsung Motors. Jose-Vicente de los Mozos Obispo, deputy alliance executive vice president in cha...

February 10, 2019
Editorial
[Hal Brands] Don’t let China take the world hostage

Discussions of what China’s rise will mean for the world often take on an abstract, impersonal quality. We use terms like “international order,” “geopolitical competition” and “balance of power.” Yet...

February 10, 2019
Columnists
[Mihir Sharma] Even the right American is wrong for World Bank

In many ways, David Malpass, whom US President Donald Trump nominated to head the World Bank, is an unsurprising choice. He’s a senior Treasury official overseeing international affairs. Plus, his ba...

February 10, 2019
Columnists
[Lionel Laurent] Emmanuel Macron is happy to fight with Italy

Emmanuel Macron has followed the old adage: Never waste a good crisis. As relations with Italy go from bad to toxic, the French president has taken the unprecedented step of recalling his ambassado...

February 10, 2019
Columnists
[Ann McFeatters] Our role model in the White House

All over America, teens have a new role model. Become president and you only have to work an hour or two a day. The rest is “Executive Time.” You can play golf nearly 50 percent of the time. You ca...

February 10, 2019
Columnists

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