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August 21, 2019 Viewpoints

[Jeffrey D. Sachs] Europe must oppose Trump

With Donald Trump due to visit Europe again for the G-7 summit later this month, European leaders have run out of options for dealing with the US president. They have tried to charm him, persuade him...

[Editorial] Cho’s impudence

Justice Minister nominee Cho Kuk is in hot water over multiple corruption allegations involving his family. The allegations evoke not only a shameless two-facedness, but also suspicions of rule-bendi...

August 21, 2019
Editorial
[Editorial] Shameful record

South Korea’s coal consumption increased last year, when most advanced countries were curtailing the use of fossil fuels. It adds to the shame caused by the country’s already messed-up energy policy....

August 20, 2019
Editorial
[Ann McFeatters] History seems to be repeating in Russia, China

It’s beginning to feel like a 1980s news tape showing America’s despotic enemies running amok. In Russia, a mysterious fatal explosion a few days ago in one of the country’s 10 secret cities where n...

August 19, 2019
Viewpoints
[Editorial] Positive turn

Foreign ministers from South Korea, China and Japan will gather together in Beijing for three days from Tuesday for their first trilateral talks in three years. As Seoul’s Foreign Ministry stated la...

August 19, 2019
Editorial
MOU with Think Tank

Herald CEO and Publisher Kwon Chung-won (left) shakes hands with Lim Kang-taeg, president of the Korea Institute for National Unification, after signing a memorandum of understanding for partnership ...

August 19, 2019
Social affairs
[Editorial] Pie in the sky

North Korea has intensified provocations and criticism of South Korea. The North test-fired two missiles and ridiculed the South a day after South Korean President Moon Jae-in vowed to establish a “p...

August 18, 2019
Editorial
Thavma thrives on patriotic marketing

Amid the ongoing boycott of Japanese products in the midst of the South Korea-Japan trade row, a Korean brand is gaining recognition for its “Yes. We are a Korean brand” campaign. Thavma, a luxury b...

August 18, 2019
Economy
First hearing in Holt lawsuit by Korean adoptee deported from US highlights fight for transparency, adoptee rights

The presiding judge in the Seoul Central District Court opened session Tuesday by noting the unusual audience as the small courtroom overflowed with over 60 South Korean-born international adoptees a...

August 18, 2019
Social affairs
[Elizabeth Drew] What’s behind America’s mass shootings?

After every mass shooting in the United States, Americans and others around the world are confronted with the question of what lies behind this distinctly American horror. Though total gun deaths in ...

August 15, 2019
Viewpoints
[Kadir Jun Ayhan and Nancy Snow] S. Korea, Japan should not let politics override personal ties

South Korea and Japan are having the tensest moment in their history since the end of Japanese occupation of the peninsula. The problem has a lot to do with economic self-interests and uncertainty in...

August 15, 2019
Viewpoints
[David Ignatius] America’s new Sputnik moment

One of the weirdest aspects of this year’s Democratic presidential campaign is that foreign policy, potentially one of President Trump’s most vulnerable issues, has been nearly absent from the debate...

August 15, 2019
Viewpoints
[Editorial] Big loophole

The recent tragic death of a North Korean woman defector and her son raises two big questions -- one about the nation’s overall social safety net and the other about the way the government takes care...

August 15, 2019
Editorial
[Editorial] True task

The country marks the 74th anniversary of its liberation from Japan’s colonial rule Thursday amid Tokyo’s increasingly hostile stance against Seoul over rekindled historical disputes between the two ...

August 14, 2019
Editorial
[J. Bradford DeLong ] America’s superpower panic

Global superpowers have always found it painful to acknowledge their relative decline and deal with fast-rising challengers. Today, the United States finds itself in this situation with regard to Chi...

August 14, 2019
Viewpoints

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