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[VIEWPOINT]Primer for Attracting Foreign Investment

When doing business in Korea, it does not take long to realize that Koreans in general are nationalistic and conservative. The attitude that Koreans have toward foreign products or multinational companies have changed slightly as they came to recognize the importance and need for foreign investment in the years after the economic crisis, but it is still not all positive. Koreans have accepted foreign investment as something needed, but they sti…

May 21,2001
[FOUNTAIN]Degrees of Political Power

Kim Hong-il, eldest son of President Kim Dae-jung and a Millennium Democratic Party congressman, recently received an honorary doctoral degree from Mokpo University. The university recognized Mr. Kim's contribution to politics and the local community, and his scholarly achievement in writing more than 20 books and theses. This is his fourth honorary doctoral degree but he still has a long way to go before he catches up with his parents. Presid…

May 21,2001
[EDITORIALS]Blocking Advisors Stunts Politics

The opposition Grand National Party is balking at the news that the government is conducting a preliminary investigation into a move by academics to participate in the opposition party's advisory committee. The government's actions could be interpreted as an attempt to block the infusion of high-powered brains into the opposition party since the people the government is taking issue with are resident scholars of state-run think tanks and professo…

May 20,2001
[EDITORIALS]Keep Talking to Find Solutions

Economic specialists from the Millennium Democratic Party, the United Liberal Democrats and the opposition Grand National Party had a marathon discussion with economic ministers over the weekend. They then announced their conclusions on various pressing issues, including economic reform, use of public funds, business environment, lives of low-income households and the national debt. It is regrettable that the announcement served only to reitera…

May 20,2001
[OUTLOOK]A Whiff of Defeatism in the Ruling Party

The Donggyo-dong faction, the closest to President Kim Dae-jung among the Millennium Dem-ocratic Party's factions, created a stir among its members by suggesting the possibility of having two party conventions － one early next year to choose the party president and the other later to pick the party's nominee for the next presidential election. Four times since 1948 the party president and presidential nominee were different persons － three in…

May 20,2001
[VIEWPOINT]A Common Front With Japanese Friends

Recently, the South Korean government delivered a written demand to Tokyo for additional changes to the controversial history textbook developed by the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform, a group of Japanese conservatives. In a personal response to the statement, Haruki Wada, professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo, wrote "As a member of the Japanese people, I appreciate most heartily that the Korean government has listened …

May 20,2001
[FOUNTAIN]Democracy and Its Discontents

The statement was, "You believe that Washington will do the right thing," and 77 percent of the people responding to the questionnaire in 1964 agreed. Thirty years later, the number would be 19 percent. The level of trust among the American people in the honesty and integrity of the United States Congress is so low that it is barely higher than the trust in used car salesmen and somewhat lower than that in lawyers. You do not have to have …

May 20,2001
[EDITORIALS]Cloning Ban Is Bad Policy

The tentative plan of the Korea Bioethics Advisory Commission to ban cloning of embryo cells is stirring a dispute. The center of the fierce debate is the strict ban on research on cloning somatic cells by nuclear transfer, a core bioengineering technology of the next generation. The plan seems to reflect the voices of religious and civic groups that an embryo is a living organism and the means do not justify the end. If the bill passes its scree…

May 18,2001
[EDITORIALS]But Who Ordered Medical Reform?

The Board of Audit and Inspection reportedly has concluded that working-level officials of the Ministry of Health and Welfare overlooked the convenience of patients and the nation's financial burden in the course of implementing the medical reform. Statistics and analytical data, the foundation for establishing any policy, were not properly prepared and the payment increases that the health insurance corporation paid hospitals were unreasonably…

May 18,2001
[EDITORIALS]Let Colleges Reward Contributors

Controversy is expected to heat up as Yonsei University has decided to give admissions preference to the descendants of people who have contributed the university in a non-material way － over the opposition of the Education Ministry. To the contrary, the ministry continues to insist that "preferential admission is not allowed whether it is non-material or not." The introduction of special admissions has long been discussed. People who suppor…

May 18,2001

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