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[Parmy Olson & Tae Kim] Haugen's four steps to fix facebook

ViewpointsOct 14, 2021

At a congressional hearing on Tuesday, former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen didn’t need to convince lawmakers that the company has a big problem. Republicans and Democrats were, for once, u...
[Lee Kyong-hee] Fiasco in a Baekje royal tomb, 50 years on

ViewpointsOct 14, 2021

Torrential rain fell all night. It just meant more monsoon season drainage work would be needed during the next interlude. Nobody in the small provincial city of Gongju, South Chungcheong Province, i...
[Editorial] Thorough investigation

EditorialOct 14, 2021

Daejang-dong project suspicions piling up around Lee; special probe may be needed
[Paola Subacchi] Is Evergrande debacle a made-in-China financial crisis?

ViewpointsOct 13, 2021

As the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank prepare for their annual meeting next week, all eyes are on Evergrande, China’s second-largest property developer, which apparently cannot repay ...
[Kim Seong kon] Young people, do you know the sorrow of the survivor?

ViewpointsOct 13, 2021

Although they often miss their youth, old people are wise enough to know that they cannot get any younger. For some inscrutable reason, however, some young people seem to forget they will grow old so...
[Lionel Laurent] Russia’s small neighbor on energy

ViewpointsOct 13, 2021

Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. European politicians are scrambling to pin the blame for a painful surge in wholesale energy prices on reliable punching bags -- the shift to clean...
[Editorial] Shaky candidacy

EditorialOct 13, 2021

Ruling party’s presidential nominee facing
[Elizabeth Shackelford] ‘Foreign Policy for the Middle Class’

ViewpointsOct 12, 2021

“Those of us who conduct foreign policy haven’t always done a good job connecting it to the needs and aspirations of the American people,” said Secretary of State Antony Blinken in his first major sp...
[Editorial] Overambitious target

EditorialOct 12, 2021

Panel proposes to raise emission goal drastically; grounds not mentioned
[Digital Simplicity] Do Lineage and Diablo 2 need to be resurrected?

ViewpointsOct 9, 2021

“Hate the game developer, not the game.” This slightly tweaked version of the timeless maxim applies to the two well-known massively multiplayer online role-playing games: Lineage and Diablo 2. Both...
[Robert J. Fouser] Slowing the rise in home prices

ViewpointsOct 8, 2021

Articles on the housing market in the South Korean media are frequent and focus entirely on two topics: cost and scandal. Cost concerns the steady rise in prices, both for buying and renting. Scandal...
[Editorial] Specter of inflation

EditorialOct 8, 2021

With energy crisis going global, consumer prices rise above 2% sixth straight month
[Editorial] Renewing commitment

EditorialOct 7, 2021

Youn Mee-hyang, a civic activist-turned-lawmaker, stirred up public outrage here last year when she fell under suspicion of embezzling money donated to help South Korean women forced into wartime sex...
[David Fickling] The rich will always find a way

ViewpointsOct 7, 2021

If you want to know why nearly 40 million leaked documents on the salting away of assets in offshore financial centers have failed to result in comprehensive change since the revelations started eigh...
[Kim Myong-sik] Lee Jae-myung’s strong but flawed presidential bid

ViewpointsOct 7, 2021

Many South Koreans, under continuing duress from the COVID-19 pandemic, have an additional cause for discomfort these days: a housing development scam unfolding in a satellite city of Seoul where a h...