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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Korea enters full election mode
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Dialogue hopes fade as doctors pick hard-liner as new head
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Coupang pledges W3tr to expand Rocket Delivery nationwide by 2027
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[Election Battlefield] Political novice to face off star politician in ‘swing district’
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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[Herald Interview] Son Suk-ku chooses to be swayed by others in navigating life
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Seoul’s bus union prepares for strike
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[Lee Kyong-hee] Take heed of North Korea’s food insecurity
North Korea is no stranger to chronic food shortages. For the past 17 consecutive years the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has placed the North on its list of countries in need of external assistance. The FAO’s latest quarterly review, “Crop Prospects and Food Situation,” issued last month, says, “A large portion of the population suffers from low levels of food consumption and poor dietary diversity. The food security situation is expected to remain fragile, given
ViewpointsApril 27, 2023
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[Editorial] Crucial occasion
President Yoon Suk Yeol and US President Joe Biden will release a special statement on strengthened extended deterrence to North Korea’s nuclear threat, South Korea's presidential office and the White House announced Tuesday. It will be the first time for South Korea and the US to release a separate statement on extended deterrence as part of a summit outcome. Documentation on a nuclear umbrella in the form of a statement is an extraordinary measure for an ally. In connection with Yoo
EditorialApril 27, 2023
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[Editorial] Tricky support plan
The massive rental fraud case in Incheon has taken a new turn as the government has opposed a proposal calling for direct state intervention, while a special revision bill related to the scam will be put to a vote in the National Assembly this week. At the heart of the dispute is whether the government should extend direct financial support to the victims of home rental scams by offering them security deposits first through taxpayer money and then recoup the deposits later. The proposal was made
EditorialApril 26, 2023
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[Kim Seong-kon] What to expect from the Korea-US summit meeting
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the South Korea-US alliance. To commemorate the invaluable friendship of these two countries, US President Joe Biden will host a state visit of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday. As international crises have loomed here and there and disrupted world peace lately, this upcoming summit in Washington is certainly very timely. In the past, when South Korea was underdeveloped and weak, it was almost the sole beneficiary of the Mutual Defense T
ViewpointsApril 26, 2023
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[Scott Moore, Derek Scissors] China may be just running in place
Something about China encourages grandiose predictions. Just a few years ago, the US Intelligence Community forecast China would emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic economically and politically stronger than the United States. Now a popular view in Washington is that China will soon pass its economic and military peak, and the US will confront a declining power willing to take desperate measures, especially in the event of a confrontation over Taiwan. Beijing’s military exercises following T
ViewpointsApril 26, 2023
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[Contribution] From Tesla to Rimac -- a highway to EV mobility
Following its energy transition strategy, the European Union has announced that the production of petrol cars within the EU market will be halted after 2035, as confirmed by the European Parliament last week. Overall adherence to this goal among EU member states has thus far been encouraging. In 2021, 19 percent of all newly registered passenger vehicles in the EU were electric, with more than 1.2 million EV cars sold. In some countries, such as Norway, 75 percent of all newly registered cars we
Foreign AffairsApril 25, 2023
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Ukraine hopes for S. Korean arms in fight against Russia
Ukraine is hoping for South Korea's defense support in its fight against Russia, said the Ukrainian Embassy in Seoul on Monday. The comments came after President Yoon Suk Yeol said that South Korea could provide aid beyond humanitarian or financial support if Ukraine comes under large-scale attacks against civilians in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday. Korea can support Ukraine by providing state-of-the-art Korean-made defense equipment, said the embassy. "The continuation of tim
Foreign AffairsApril 25, 2023
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[Editorial] Tangible results
President Yoon Suk Yeol departed for Washington on Monday for a summit with US President Joe Biden on Wednesday. Yoon is the second foreign leader to make a state visit to the US under the Biden administration after French President Emmanuel Macron's state visit late last year. The Yoon-Biden summit will be held during a critical time. Military tension has been mounting on the Korean Peninsula as North Korea continues missile provocations. Recently, the North test-fired a new solid-fueled i
EditorialApril 25, 2023
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[Stephen L. Carter] The costs of pandering to the crowd
I’m not surprised that Fox News settled the Dominion defamation lawsuit, though like everyone else I’m taken aback by the amount. My suspicion is that the decision to drop the defense stemmed less from a fear of the jury verdict -- which might have been much lower -- than from the reputational toll a trial would have caused. And if there’s a lesson here, it’s not so much about Fox News as such but about the growing costs of pandering to your audience. If you’re r
ViewpointsApril 25, 2023
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[Andreas Kluth] How NATO should deter Vladimir Putin's Russia
Come July, NATO allies will gather in Vilnius for their second summit since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his genocidal war of aggression against Ukraine. There’ll be 31 of them this time, after Finland joined the club in direct response to Putin’s bellicosity. What should they decide? One way or another, every discussion will touch on Putin. The neo-Tsarist, imperialist, irredentist and atavistic threat he represents menaces not only non-NATO countries such as Ukraine or
ViewpointsApril 25, 2023
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[Editorial] Electricity rate dispute
While the South Korean government remains reluctant to raise electricity rates in the second quarter, the state-run Korea Electric Power Corp. (Kepco) announced it would take drastic cost-cutting and self-help measures. “We will prepare and announce additional measures as soon as possible, including measures to slash labor costs, innovate organizations, support the vulnerable groups and improve public convenience,” Kepco CEO Chung Seung-il said in a statement Friday. In the company&r
EditorialApril 24, 2023
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[Ana Palacio] Urgent for US to restore its position in Middle East
Perhaps no image better captures the shifting dynamics in the Middle East than that of Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s security council, and Musaad bin Mohammed Al Aiban, Saudi Arabia’s minister of state, shaking hands in Beijing, with China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, smiling between them. The officials were celebrating a China-mediated deal restoring diplomatic ties between the two rivals. In the process, China solidified its reputation as a global powerbroker and under
ViewpointsApril 24, 2023
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[Editorial] Wasteful trip
Five lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties on the Strategy and Finance Committee set out on a nine-day business travel to Europe on Tuesday. They said they would visit France, Spain and Germany to learn about their fiscal rules. Of course, lawmakers are free to travel abroad for policy research. But at least they should have decency. The ruling and opposition parties wasted two years and six months neglecting the legislation of fiscal rules. Recently they agreed unanimously on a bill
EditorialApril 21, 2023
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[Robert J. Fouser] Leaked US documents offer insight
The recent leak of classified US intelligence documents shocked the military and diplomatic establishment in Washington. On April 13, the FBI arrested Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, who leaked the documents in a Discord chat room. Investigations are continuing into how a low-ranking national guardsman had access to the documents and how accessible such information should be moving forward. The leaked documents showed that the US was spying on many co
ViewpointsApril 21, 2023
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[Wang Son-taek] Teixeira case and political correctness
The leak of classified documents from the Pentagon is a global concern. As a Korean citizen whose country has been bugged by the United States, it is a very unpleasant incident. However, as a member of a global village, the incident has an interesting element as the motivation behind the leak is so absurd. In the process of talking to buddies in an internet chat room, Airman Jack Teixeira leaked national secrets to show off. In the past, leaks of confidential information were usually a campaign
ViewpointsApril 20, 2023
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[Lynn Schmidt] Find me an Abraham Lasso
What America needs now is a combination of a modern-day Abraham Lincoln and a real-life Ted Lasso. A leader who will inspire all of us, remind us of the better angels of our nature and who believes in what we can become. Most Americans are unhappy with the direction of the country. In an NBC poll from January, 71 percent of respondents said the country is headed in the wrong direction. It was the eighth time in the last nine NBC News surveys since October 2021 when the wrong-track response has b
ViewpointsApril 20, 2023
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[Editorial] Destructive rental fraud
In a country where tenants often pay a large lump-sum deposit for two years of rent under the unique “jeonse” housing system, landlords’ failure to pay back the deposits in time -- a result of either reckless borrowing or a shameless scam -- can be utterly devastating for cash-strapped tenants, often wiping out the entirety of their assets. A massive fraud case is now shaking up the jeonse lease system and sending shock waves through the nation, with thousands of innocent tenan
EditorialApril 20, 2023
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[Editorial] Apply same yardstick
The main opposition Democratic Party of Korea has seldom acknowledged allegations unfavorable to it. But regarding alleged vote buying at its national convention in May 2021, its leader Lee Jae-myung apologized five days after the allegations became known. He also asked for a fair and quick investigation. The party has covered up for its lawmakers in corruption allegations, condemning the prosecution for suppressing the party through what it called politically motivated investigations. Lee seems
EditorialApril 19, 2023
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[Kim Seong-kon] Hidden meanings behind nursery rhymes
Children grow up hearing and singing nursery rhymes. Experts say that many nursery rhymes have a secret meaning, such as a parody of our everyday lives or a satire of historical events. Children may sing nursery rhymes merrily, but some would give them a chill if they knew the origin of the song. We can find a host of internet websites about secret meanings behind English nursery rhymes. For example, “Ring Around the Rosie” is a cheerful song that children sing in a circle before the
ViewpointsApril 19, 2023
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[Gernot Wagner] Will banking busts hurt clean tech?
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last month seemed to bode ill for the global clean-energy race. Just as recently enacted US investment packages and the rest of President Joe Biden’s climate dreams were about to take off, the high-tech start-up sector’s bank of choice went bust, and commentators are warning of a looming slowdown in “the transition to clean energy.” Yet, rather than hampering the clean-energy race, this episode should be a teachable moment. Yes, the ini
ViewpointsApril 19, 2023