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[Digital Simplicity] Spotify’s deal with Kakao offers a positive signal

ViewpointsMar 13, 2021

When Spotify made a debut in South Korea last month, a number of Korean users were disappointed because the service went online without the crucial library of Korean songs. The debacle stemmed from ...
[Robert J. Fouser] Gender-neutral approach to fertility rate

ViewpointsMar 12, 2021

Since the rush to develop began in the 1960s, the South Korean government has paid attention to the fertility rate. In the 1960s and 1970s, the rate was too high, and the government focused its effor...
[Bennett Ramberg] Is nuclear peace with North Korea possible?

ViewpointsMar 12, 2021

North Korea’s recent public displays of new intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missiles have raised fresh concerns about the risks the regime in Pyongyang poses to the US mainland. As ...
[Editorial] Moral hazards

EditorialMar 12, 2021

Ethics of public enterprise employees worsen under pro-labor policy
[Kim Myong-sik] Popular former prosecution chief stirs Korean politics

ViewpointsMar 11, 2021

Watching the worsening turmoil in Myanmar, where the death toll from the brutal police control rises day by day, South Koreans see flashbacks of their own streets four decades ago. Pro-democracy demo...
[Noah Smith] COVID-19 economy before Zoom and Amazon

ViewpointsMar 11, 2021

Economists concerned about slowing productivity have spent the past decade hotly debating the value of free digital services such as Google’s web search and Amazon’s online store. But those online se...
[Editorial] Misplaced focus

EditorialMar 11, 2021

Moon government’s tie-up with big unions shuns woes faced by young job seekers
[Peter Singer] When vaccination is a ‘crime’

ViewpointsMar 10, 2021

On Dec. 29 last year, Hasan Gokal, the medical director of the COVID-19 response team in Harris County, Texas (which includes Houston, the fourth-largest city in the United States by population), was...
[Kim Seong-kon] Absurdity and irrationality in our society

ViewpointsMar 10, 2021

South Korea is undoubtedly one of the most convenient places to live in today’s world. You can do practically anything electronically, including lock your door, so no one carries jingling metal keys ...
[Editorial] Normalize combined training

EditorialMar 10, 2021

Korea, US start computer-simulated training amid concerns about weak combat readiness
[Mihir Sharma] US vaccine hoarding out of norm

ViewpointsMar 9, 2021

Those Americans who cheered President Joe Biden’s announcement this week that the US would have enough vaccines to inoculate every citizen by the end of July might want to note the cold silence with ...
[J. Bradford DeLong] What are the new inflation hawks thinking?

ViewpointsMar 9, 2021

Back in 1992, Lawrence H. Summers, then the chief economist at the World Bank, and I warned that pushing the US Federal Reserve’s annual inflation target down from 4 percent to 2 percent risked causi...
[Editorial] Firm alliance

EditorialMar 9, 2021

Top US officials’ planned visit to highlight Seoul’s position between Washington and Beijing
[Sohn Woo-hyun] ROK-US alliance marred at Taegukgi Park

ViewpointsMar 8, 2021

In the former US Army compound at Yongsan in central Seoul, there is a park named after the South Korean flag, Taegukgi. In this park, adorned by Mugunghwa, the national flower of South Korea, 50 Tae...
[Jwa Sung Hee] Saemaul Undong, a controlled economic development experiment, merits a nobel prize

ViewpointsMar 8, 2021

As Korea has developed into the 10th-largest economy in the world, many in Korea now wonder when the country will win a Nobel Prize in the five scholarly categories. Frustrated, Korea’s basic science...