The Korea Herald

[Jean Pisani-Ferry] Explaining triumph of Trump’s economic recklessness

Jan 30, 2020

Since he was elected US president, Donald Trump has done almost everything standard economic wisdom regards as heresy. He has erected trade barriers and stoked uncertainty with threats of further tar...
[Serendipity] Still perplexed after all these years

Jan 30, 2020

In October 2005, I visited Pyongyang and Myohyangsan with a small group of South Korean travel journalists. This was the time of the Roh Moo-hyun administration when there were robust inter-Korean ex...
[Slawomir Sierakowski] The twilight of EU foreign policy

Jan 29, 2020

Reporting on a recent conference in Berlin to discuss the conflict in Libya, one of Germany’s largest newspapers, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, notes that, “the days when America dominated the Midd...
[Kim Myong-sik] Moon, Choo must cooperate in Yoon’s probe

Jan 29, 2020

Battles are underway on multiple fronts ahead of the general election this spring. Of course, noisiest are the demonstrations at Gwanghwamun and those in Seocho-dong, Seoul, by anti- and pro-governm...
[Kim Seong-kon] Clones and drones in era of AI

Jan 28, 2020

Recently, Korean universities are busy belatedly preparing for the “Age of Artificial Intelligence,” implementing new curricula and projects in academic departments and graduate schools and hiring ex...
[Robert J. Fouser] Reviving economic growth in South Korea

Jan 28, 2020

South Korea’s economy grew 2.01 percent in 2019, just over the government goal of 2 percent. The growth rate is the lowest since 2009, when the world economy was reeling from the effects of the 2008 ...
[Borge Brende] Cooperation in unsettled world

Jan 27, 2020

The world is at a turning point, with power shifting and dispersing in ways that signal the emergence of a new multipolar era. In the resulting turbulent global environment, opportunities to compete ...
[Jonathan Bernstein] Unspoken charge that should doom Trump: lawlessness

Jan 27, 2020

For three days, the House managers serving as prosecutors in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump set out the details of his effort to strong-arm Ukraine into aiding his 2020 reelec...
[Sarita Nayyar] The case for consumption equality

Jan 23, 2020

Discussions about economic development often focus on how to increase income equality. More recently, however, thoughtful observers have begun to regard consumption equality -- the equal use of goods...
[Lindsay Gorman] Trump’s weak trade deal with China completely ignores big picture

Jan 22, 2020

By many counts, the trade deal President Donald Trump signed on Jan. 15 with China lacks heft. It doesn’t remove all the tariffs, it doesn’t impose any major penalties on intellectual property theft,...
[Leonid Bershidsky] Making babies to grow economies won’t work

Jan 22, 2020

In his recent state of the nation address, Russian President Vladimir Putin spent about 20 minutes on a sweeping constitutional reform proposal designed to keep him in power indefinitely -- and about...
[Trudy Rubin] Which 2020 Democrats are best on foreign policy?

Jan 21, 2020

Although foreign policy has hardly figured in the Democratic primaries, the impeachment trial reminds us it’s time to look at which Trump opponent would make the best commander in chief. Almost any ...
[Kim Seong-kon] Joseon era of 19th century vs. 21st century Korea

Jan 21, 2020

Many analysts and historians point out that the current political situation of South Korea resembles that of the Joseon era in the late 19th century. To say the least, it would be embarrassing and di...
[Anjani Trivedi] China spins a trade-deal trap in bad debt market

Jan 20, 2020

China is opening the deepest, darkest corner of its strained financial system to American financial institutions. It’s not clear why investors would want to go there, even with their eyes wide open. ...
[Noah Smith] The sitcom that gets America’s working class

Jan 20, 2020

Sitcoms are an underrated way of portraying the economic challenges faced by average people. “Atlanta” shows the travails of working-class black Americans navigating a world of hassle, insecurity and...