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A corporate role
The Korean business community faces problems from all sides. Big employers from next year will have to pay more corporate taxes and small ones will be burdened with higher labor costs. There has been trouble in China due to retaliatory action against…
Sept 04,2017
Obstinance on both sides
The first regular session of the National Assembly since the launch of the liberal Moon Jae-in administration opened Friday. But prospects are not bright as opposition parties hold a majority in the legislature. As it turned out, the main opposition …
Sept 02,2017
Rethinking base salary
The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday delivered a partial victory for the union of Kia Motors in its lawsuit against the management by counting regular bonuses and other incentives as base salary. The court ordered the management to issue 422…
Sept 02,2017
The nuclear card
In a remarkable development amid heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula, redeployment of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea was mentioned at Wednesday’s meeting between defense ministers of South Korea and the United States in Washingto…
Sept 01,2017
Time to build pressure
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un vowed to fire more missiles over Japan with the Pacific Ocean “as a target in the future.” It congratulated itself for the firing of the Hwasong-12 missile that flew over Japan into the Pacific Tuesday morning, saying …
Sept 01,2017
Weather vane justice
The Seoul High Court sentenced Won Sei-hoon, former chief of the National Intelligence Service, to four years in jail on charges of violating the NIS law and Public Office Election Law. The former head of the spy agency has been suspected of helping …
Aug 31,2017
A dangerous experiment
The future of public finance under President Moon Jae-in’s government raises serious concerns from the proposal for budgetary spending for 2018 laid out by the government on Tuesday. It proposed a 429 trillion won ($381 billion) spending plan, up 7.1…
Aug 31,2017
A laid-back response
North Korea fired a ballistic missile over the islands of Japan. The intermediate-range missile flew 2,700 kilometers (1,678 miles) to the east and fell into the Pacific Tuesday. The provocative move came only three days after the North fired three s…
Aug 30,2017
Time for Thaad
South Korea has completed a small-scale study on the environmental impact from the full deployment of the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) system in Seongju County, North Gyeongsang. It conducted a minimal environmental test for the “…
Aug 30,2017
Learning a lesson
Major business lobbying groups in South Korea were all reluctant to take positions after the Seoul Central District Court sentenced Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong to five years in jail last week. The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Indu…
Aug 29,2017
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