The Korea Herald

[Anjani Trivedi] We need to prepare for pandemics. They’ll keep coming

Mar 4, 2020

When it comes to infectious disease outbreaks, we just haven’t learned. It’s not as if we weren’t warned. Last year, a report by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, a body put together by the ...
[Ferdinando Giugliano] Italy shows how to tackle coronavirus impact

Mar 4, 2020

The Italian government has announced a stimulus package of 3.6 billion euros ($4 billion) to help the economy cope with the Coronavirus outbreak. The response appears timely and proportionate. Rome c...
[Eli Lake] Why Taliban is hailing US peace plan

Mar 3, 2020

On the eve of the ceremony to sign an agreement with the US to begin peace negotiations, the Taliban declared it had already won. “This is a day of victory,” said Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, a Tal...
[Kim Seong-kon] Between Seoul and Granada: Memories of Alhambra

Mar 3, 2020

Ostensibly, the Alhambra Palace does not seem to have anything to do with the “fourth industrial revolution.” The former is a famous 13th century Moorish palace located in Granada, Spain and the latt...
[Ferdinando Giugliano] Europe’s coronavirus plan is not enough

Mar 2, 2020

The economic damage from the coronavirus epidemic has prompted calls for Europe to relax its fiscal rules to allow governments to cut taxes and increase spending. The European Commission seems to agr...
[Letter to Editor] Redefining DMZ as contact zone of hope

Mar 2, 2020

On cold winter evenings, I watched drama series “Crash Landing on You.” Although this romance drama has been assessed by some critics as a pure fantasy, it has achieved great success by vividly featu...
[Noah Feldman] Coronavirus has come to the US and lawsuits won’t be far behind

Mar 1, 2020

The coronavirus called COVID-19 has spread beyond its origin in Wuhan, China, and has arrived on U.S. shores. I’m a law professor, not an epidemiologist, so my thoughts immediately turned to how the ...
[David Fickling] What the virus end game will look like

Mar 1, 2020

Pandemics come and pandemics go. In the grip of a new infection spreading around a planet with no natural immunity, it can feel like the sky is falling. Over the coming months, it’s likely that a si...
[David Fickling] Coronavirus complacency is worse than panic

Feb 27, 2020

Don’t think about a white bear. What did you just see in your mind’s eye? If the answer was “a white bear,” you’ll have grasped one of the problems facing public health officials in talking about th...
[Jean Pisani-Ferry] A radical way out of the EU budget maze

Feb 27, 2020

In 2003, I co-authored a report on the future of the European Union -- the Sapir report -- in which we observed that the expenditures, revenues, and procedures of the EU budget were all inconsistent ...
[Kim Myong-sik] ‘Crime and punishment’ of former president

Feb 26, 2020

Last week, the Seoul Appellate Court handed down a sentence of 17 years’ imprisonment to Lee Myung-bak, who was president of the South Korea from Feb. 25, 2008, to Feb. 24, 2013. The judge added two ...
[Jeffrey Frankel] Will the virus trigger global recession?

Feb 26, 2020

At the start of this year, things seemed to be looking up for the global economy. True, growth had slowed a bit in 2019: from 2.9 percent to 2.3 percent in the United States, and from 3.6 percent to ...
[Robert J. Fouser] Developing an appropriate response to COVID-19

Feb 25, 2020

As news of the surge in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Daegu spread, The Drudge Report, a sensationalist site run by investigative reporter Matt Drudge, ran a photo of a thermal imaging devi...
[Kim Seong-kon] Wavering between hope and despair

Feb 25, 2020

The world is now experiencing an unprecedented crisis due to a new coronavirus pandemic. So is South Korea, where the number of COVID-19 patients are increasing exponentially each week. At the same t...
[Christopher Hill] Denuclearizing Pyongyang: A long road to peace

Feb 24, 2020

Just one year ago, it was widely believed in many quarters that the Donald Trump Administration was making progress in convincing North Korea to engage in an effort -- albeit a lengthy one -- to denu...