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Stop the spread of swine fever
Early tests on 19 pigs culled from a pig farm in South Chungcheong have proved negative after concerns that an infection of African swine fever (ASF) had spread to the area. Authorities feared that the fatal virus had traveled south from Gyeonggi pro…
Oct 01,2019
Twenties are tough
According to data from the Health Insurance Review Assessment Service, those in their 20s who have been to the hospital for mental illnesses surged 90.6 percent last year compared to five years ago. The doubling of young people seeing doctors for men…
Sept 30,2019
Is Moon mounting pressure?
President Moon Jae-in emphasized investigational powers must be “strict and yet restrained to respect civilian rights.” The comments were relayed by the presidential spokeswoman after Moon referred to the ongoing investigation of Justice Minister Cho…
Sept 30,2019
Our shrinking middle class
The Korean middle class has borne the brunt of three years of economic experiments by the Moon Jae-in government. Jobs in manufacturing have thinned out. Homeowners have been bombarded with heavy property taxes. Salary earners are paying more in taxe…
Sept 28,2019
Reform admissions
Suspicions are also building around Justice Minister Cho Kuk’s son after Yonsei University claimed it has lost all the scoring records on overseas student applicants for its graduate school where the young Cho attended from the first semester of last…
Sept 28,2019
Double standards
In a question session at the National Assembly on Thursday, controversial Justice Minister Cho Kuk admitted that he had a conversation with the head of an investigation team in the prosecution probing a plethora of allegations against him and his fam…
Sept 27,2019
Really a victim?
Justice Minister Cho Kuk’s wife Chung Kyung-sim took to Facebook to complain about her son having had to undergo questioning by prosecutors. Instead of sympathizing with her sharing that her “heart was in the throes of shedding blood and tears,” many…
Sept 27,2019
A rush to insecurity
Amid deepening uncertainties over denuclearization in North Korea, a call to withdraw U.S. forces from South Korea is gaining momentum in Washington. John Hamre, CEO of CSIS and a former U.S. deputy secretary of defense, said that mainstream politici…
Sept 26,2019
Living in a different world
Justice Minister Cho Kuk, who has joined the list of suspects for the prosecution’s investigations of a number of criminal charges against his family, attended a cabinet meeting on Tuesday. He was bombarded with questions from reporters as his home w…
Sept 26,2019
New York ‘nothingburger’
The summit in New York on Tuesday between President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump was a “nothingburger,” to use a term of our times. Both leaders shunned talks over such sensitive issues as defense cost-sharing or the scrapping of the G…
Sept 25,2019
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