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[Editorial] Worrying prospect

The country’s exports reached a record high of $605 billion in 2018, up 5.5 percent from a year earlier, according to data released by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on the first day of t...

January 3, 2019
Editorial
[Jean Pisani-Ferry] Fifty shades of yellow vests both visible and enigmatic

Who are the yellow vest protesters? What are the true roots of their uprising? And what do they want? Six weeks after they started rocking French politics and a month after violence erupted on the Ch...

January 3, 2019
Columnists
[팟캐스트] (280) 중장년 여성 막걸리 소비 증가, 쌍용차 해고자 71명 복직

진행자: 김보경, Kevin Lee Selzer 'Makgeolli' contributing to alcoholic consumption by older women: report 기사요약: 10년 사이 중장년 여성층의 막걸리 소비가 1.7배 증가했다 아이튠즈 (아이폰): https://itunes.apple.com/kr/podcast/koliahe...

January 3, 2019
Podcast
[Trudy Rubin] 5 foreign-policy debacles that show why GOP must confront Trump

With the end of 2018, there can be no more pretense about describing the main threat to US security in 2019. That threat can be summed up in the following five words: the psyche of President Trump. ...

January 2, 2019
Columnists
[Editorial] NK sticks to its guns

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un expressed his hopes of a second summit with the US in his New Year’s speech, but did not offer additional steps toward denuclearization. Instead, he repeated the Nort...

January 2, 2019
Editorial
[Mohamed A. El-Erian] Life is getting harder for central banks

For reasons largely outside its control, the Federal Reserve is now being widely blamed for fueling financial market instability and risking derailment of the US economy. This is quite a contrast fro...

January 1, 2019
Columnists
[Anne Stevenson-Yang] Trump’s China strategy isn’t working

The Trump administration’s willingness to push the Chinese harder on trade has struck a bilateral chord. Beijing is listening. So far, so good. Now the question is what the US wants to achieve. Answe...

January 1, 2019
Columnists
[Albert R. Hunt] No, Mr. Trump, the press is only the enemy of lies

President Donald Trump doesn’t read or study history, so he’s probably unfamiliar with the Alien and Sedition Acts. He’d love them. They were the infamous series of discredited measures promulgated b...

January 1, 2019
Columnists
[Editorial] First task

In the first weeks of each year, political parties are busy mapping out plans and schedules for the New Year. This year, one of their major concerns will be preparing for the general elections in Apr...

January 1, 2019
Editorial
Lotte Card kicks off consumer financing business in Vietnam

Lotte Card said Tuesday that it has become the first South Korean credit card operator to offer consumer financing services in Vietnam as part of its mid- and long-term plans to expand its business o...

January 1, 2019
Finance
Patient stabs psychiatrist to death

A 30-year-old man has been arrested for stabbing his psychiatrist to death in a hospital in Seoul on Monday. The unidentified man used a sharp object to attack a psychiatrist at 5:44 p.m. after an i...

December 31, 2018
Social affairs
[Gordon Brown] The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70

Seven decades after its adoption, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights remains a beacon of hope for the world, sending out an unequivocal message that an injustice anywhere is a threat to justic...

December 31, 2018
Columnists
[Walter Shapiro] My dream 2020 candidate -- someone to heal America’s wounds

As an alumnus of Newsweek and Time in their glory days, I sometimes can’t resist thinking like a news-magazine editor. Any news event -- the government shutdown, the withdrawal from Syria, the Brexit...

December 31, 2018
Columnists
[Editorial] Let practicality prevail

The nation ushers in 2019 amid deepening concerns over the sagging economy and the stalled process of North Korea’s denuclearization. The economy is suffering from a simultaneous decline in output a...

December 31, 2018
Editorial
[Editorial] Suspected blacklisting

The Ministry of Environment admitted Thursday that it had prepared a document disclosed by the main opposition Liberty Korea Party with notes on which executives of public institutions under its supe...

December 28, 2018
Editorial

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