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[John Morgan Wilson] Put your phone down and drive

Like many pedestrians, I’ve learned to treat Los Angeles streets as an obstacle course of distracted drivers. Rule No. 1: Make sure a vehicle is stopped or braking before stepping off the curb. But e...

Apr 11, 2018
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Europe must learn to work with its autocrats

The landslide victory of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party in Sunday’s election in Hungary may have disappointed European liberals -- but it drives home an important truth: The limits of the...

Apr 11, 2018
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[Kim Ji-hyun] System fails erring human

The latest rumor in the mill that is corporate Korea is that the employee who recently made the fatal mistake of entering the wrong order for Samsung Securities in what has become a multibillion-won ...

Apr 11, 2018
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[Elizabeth Cline] Still no brakes on fast fashion

Fast fashion giant H&M has lost its luster. Its stock price dropped more than 40 percent in the last six months. It will close 170 stores this year, more than it has in two decades. It suffered a str...

Apr 11, 2018
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[Editorial] Stock debacle

Samsung Securities’ erroneous dividend payment on April 6 is a preposterous accident that has left a big mark on investors’ confidence in the Korean stock market. The company wrongly issued 2.8 bil...

Apr 11, 2018
Editorial
[Robert J. Fouser] Revisiting multicultural policies

The year 2008 is remembered most around the world for the financial crisis that brought on the worst economic downturn since the 1930s. In South Korea, 2008 is remembered as the first year of recentl...

Apr 10, 2018
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[Kim Seong-kon] The courage to make apologies -- and accept them

These days, apologies seem to have become a controversial issue in Korea. When a scandal breaks out, we immediately demand that the person involved apologize. Some people apologize instantly, but oth...

Apr 10, 2018
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[Eli Lake] Expect Trump to strike Syrian forces again

If the past is a prelude, we should expect a US strike sometime soon against Syrian airfields. A little more than a year ago, Syrian forces gassed rebels. The grotesque crime earned a condemnation ...

Apr 10, 2018
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[Joseph E. Stiglitz] Trump’s trade confusion about multilateral trade

The trade skirmish between the United States and China on steel, aluminum and other goods is a product of US President Donald Trump’s scorn for multilateral trade arrangements and the World Trade Org...

Apr 10, 2018
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[Gerald Kamens] The citizenship question

Over two decades ago, I relentlessly pursued a few score folks, who -- for reasons of forgetfulness, fear, apathy, orneriness, principle or a combination thereof -- had neglected or deliberately refu...

Apr 10, 2018
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[Editorial] Heed criticisms

With controversies simmering over the appointment of Kim Ki-sik as governor of the Financial Supervisory Service, Cheong Wa Dae shows characteristic intransigence again, as is often the case with its...

Apr 10, 2018
Editorial
[Editorial] Close the back door

China apparently began to relax UN sanctions against North Korea after their summit on March 26. Radio Free Asia, quoting an ethnic Korean living in Yanbian Autonomous Prefecture in Jinlin province,...

Apr 9, 2018
Editorial
[Timothy L. O’Brien] Reality meets reality TV in Oval Office

The Trump Era began when the future president descended into Trump Tower’s lobby on June 16, 2015, aboard an escalator. He launched his campaign there with a speech in which he promised to build a “g...

Apr 9, 2018
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[Stephen Roach] US needs China more than China needs US

Not one to be outdone by any adversary, Donald Trump has upped the ante in a rapidly escalating trade war with China, threatening an additional $100 billion of tariffs on top of the initial round of ...

Apr 9, 2018
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[Cass R. Sunstein] Bad nudge from California

Should coffee come with a cancer warning? As a matter of policy, the answer seems obvious: Of course not. As a matter of law, it’s much more complicated, at least in California. A tentative judicia...

Apr 9, 2018
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