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Restraint is needed
The Democratic Party (DP) has gotten itself into hot water after filing a complaint with the prosecution over a critical column written by a scholar that ran in a local newspaper. After the drew a strong public backlash, the DP withdrew the complaint…
Feb 18,2020
A lawless justice minister
Since taking office on Jan. 3, Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae has been engrossed with blocking Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl from investigating abuses of power by the Blue House. Choo, a former judge, tried to obstruct the prosecution’s investig…
Feb 17,2020
The arrogance threshold
Under the Constitution of Korea, every citizen has the freedom of expression. Article 21 stipulates the freedom of press and publication as well as the freedom of assembly. Any form of censorship that can hamper free expression is outlawed. The D…
Feb 15,2020
Breaking the fundamental rule
MBC’s investigative news program “PD Notebook” has broken the fundamental rule in journalism, which is to deliver the facts as they are, no matter what. On the program aired on Tuesday, a housewife in her 20s being interviewed was speaking about …
Feb 15,2020
Refreshing rulings
On Thursday, three meaningful rulings came from our courts. First, three judges who had been indicted on charges of power abuse during the Park Geun-hye administration were found not guilty. Second, the Supreme Court overruled a lower court’s convict…
Feb 14,2020
Consensus comes first
President Moon Jae-in proposed extending the employment term currently capped at the age of 60 in the public sector. Increasing the retirement age has suddenly come up as an issue ahead of the April 15 parliamentary elections. It could be tailored to…
Feb 14,2020
The worst option of all
The Blue House is reportedly mulling an end to the General Status of Military Information Agreement (Gsomia) with Japan. In November last year, the military intelligence-sharing deal was nearly terminated as a result of Japan’s economic retaliations …
Feb 13,2020
A true man-made disaster
The death toll of the new strain of coronavirus has topped 1,000 in China, exceeding the 648 deaths in China and 774 worldwide from the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003. The death count could continue to rise as more than …
Feb 13,2020
Repent Minister Choo!
Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae once again claimed that her decision to withhold the full text of the indictment of 13 Blue House officials and other figures on charges of unlawfully intervening in the 2018 Ulsan mayoral election was aimed at correcting …
Feb 12,2020
Writing a new page in history
Korean films have never shined as brightly as they did on Oscar night on Sunday. Director Bong Joon-ho not only rewrote history for the century-old Korean cinema, but also for film at a global scale. His groundbreaking movie “Parasite” stole the nigh…
Feb 12,2020
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