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A public broadcaster?

KBS has seriously violated its role as public broadcaster. Long ago, it lost political neutrality and has since blindly chased scandalous and sensational pieces in a desperate attempt to steal viewers from cable, satellite and online competitors, as …

Mar 22,2019
Unneighborly behavior

Korea-Japan relations have hit their bottom. The two countries show signs of boycotting each other’s products. The hostility stems from the clash of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s rightist policies and South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s bid t…

Mar 21,2019
An electoral puzzle

The electoral system should be as simple as possible since a system that few voters understand is no good. Party for Democracy and Peace Rep. Park Jie-won called the outline to redesign the electoral system — which has been agreed to by four po…

Mar 21,2019
A critical contradiction

A press officer for the ruling Democratic Party (DP) has crossed the line on freedom of speech. He singled out a reporter who wrote an article titled “South Korea’s Moon Becomes Kim Jong Un’s Top Spokesman at UN” last September, and described the jou…

Mar 20,2019
Getting to the bottom of it

President Moon Jae-in has singled out three sex scandals — involving entertainers and influential people associated with media and law enforcement agencies — to be thoroughly investigated with the reputation of the police and prosecution …

Mar 20,2019
New approach needed

President Moon Jae-in is carefully weighing the ramifications of the collapse of the U.S.-North Korea summit in Hanoi, Vietnam. Fortunately, Washington and Pyongyang do not want their denuclearization talks to go down the drain. Yet South Korea has c…

Mar 19,2019
A dim energy policy

Unsurprisingly, five key power-generating units under the state utility firm Korea Electric Power Corp. fell into the red last year, widening losses for Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP). The parent company that oversees nuclear reactors across the …

Mar 19,2019
A stubborn government

In an article he wrote in 2010, Kim Yeon-chul, tapped to be the Ministry of Unification’s head, defined the outrageous murder of a South Korean tourist at Mount Kumgang by a North Korean guard as “a rite of passage.” “It is better for us to exper…

Mar 18,2019
The path to self-destruction

Pyongyang is weighing whether to suspend further denuclearization talks with Washington as it has “no intention to yield to the U.S. demands in any form,” North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui said in a press conference in Pyongyang. It was…

Mar 18,2019
Incoming tax bomb

Apartment owners in Seoul have been warned of a tax bomb. The government is poised to bump up the valuation of properties upon which taxes are levied. Under the changes published by the Land Ministry, apartment valuations on average would go up b…

Mar 16,2019

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