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May 24, 2018 Columnists

[Noah Smith] China couldn’t keep growing like mad forever

China, not the US, is the world’s largest economy. Though the US is still tops when measured at market-exchange rates, China is about 20 percent larger after adjusting for the lower cost of goods and...

[Editorial] Door not closed yet

US President Donald Trump has canceled his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un scheduled for June 12 in Singapore. More precisely, the summit has been postponed indefinitely. It is not clear...

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Editorial
[Editorial] Trump’s message

The US has sent North Korea a message in a bid to calm the current turbulence on the way to their planned summit, following recent tough rhetoric from Pyongyang. Shortly before his summit with South...

May 24, 2018
Editorial
Social enterprise Jeonju Bibimppang expands business

Social enterprise Jeonju Bibimppang, which is popular among travelers and locals, has been expanding its business in regions since its establishment in 2013 to create job opportunities for social min...

May 24, 2018
Industry
[Nina Teicholz] Calories on menus won’t slim down America

Counting calories is now the law of the land. This month, a long-delayed regulation came into effect requiring all food chains with 20 or more locations to list calorie information on their menus. Nu...

May 23, 2018
Columnists
[John M. Crisp] Trump should cancel meeting with Kim Jong-un

The notion of a Nobel Peace Prize for President Donald Trump is a peculiar one, but only the most petty, hyperpartisan soul could wish for him to fail at the meeting currently scheduled for June 12 i...

May 23, 2018
Columnists
[Editorial] Problematic budget

The supplementary budget that passed the National Assembly this week was dogged by controversies and upsets from beginning to end. The administration drew it up without working hard to tackle unempl...

May 23, 2018
Editorial
(248) MSG, 화학조미료 오명 벗다, 유투브 인기 커버송 가수 탑5

(123RF) 진행자: 김보경, Anita McKay 1. Foodmakers fight the MSG fiction 아이튠즈(아이폰): https://itunes.apple.com/kr/podcast/koliaheleoldeu-paskaeseuteu/id686406253?mt=2 팟빵 (안드로이드): http://www.podbbang.com...

May 23, 2018
Podcast
[John R. Eperjesi] The mephitic breath of global warming: PM2.5 as hyperobject

In Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, Timothy Morton observes that, “You can no longer have a routine conversation about the weather with a stranger. The presence of glo...

May 22, 2018
Columnists
[Amy Nathan] You’re never too old, busy or rusty to make music

Eighty-five percent of adults in the US who do not play a musical instrument wish they had learned to play one, according to a 2009 Gallup Poll; 69 percent would like to play one now. Nearly all beli...

May 22, 2018
Columnists
[Editorial] Koo’s legacy

Deviation and unlawfulness are the norm with many leaders of the chaebol, the family-controlled conglomerates. They are often embroiled in cases of collusion with politicians, bribery, tax evasion, p...

May 22, 2018
Editorial
[Contribution] Korea sees the forests and the trees

The phrase “he can’t see the forest for the trees” refers to a person who is so bogged down in the minutiae of a problem that he cannot see the big picture. It happens to all of us; sometimes we are ...

May 22, 2018
Industry
Malaysia sets up task force to probe 1MDB scandal

KUALA LUMPUR, May 21, 2018 (AFP) - Malaysia on Monday set up a task force to probe allegations that billions of dollars were looted from sovereign wealth fund 1MDB in an audacious fraud overseen by o...

May 21, 2018
World News
Beijing denies ‘militarisation’ of South China Sea

BEIJING, May 21, 2018 (AFP) - Beijing hit back at allegations it was “militarising” the South China Sea on Monday after landing bombers at an airbase in the contested waters, instead accusing Washing...

May 21, 2018
World News
[Matthew Mitchell] Sports wagering has an unlikely foe

Last week the Supreme Court ruled in favor of an issue that seems to be nearing a tipping point in terms of public acceptance: sports betting. But will it be enough to overcome staunch opposition fro...

May 21, 2018
Columnists

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