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Professor has unique views on fourth industrial revolution

Kim Tai-yoo, 67, is a professor of industrial engineering at Seoul National University. He combines the study of economics and history to analyze the industrial revolutions that reshaped humanity. “Korea’s preparation for the fourth industrial re…

Dec 06,2018
Sejong’s mayor calls for a branch of the National Assembly

A plan to build a make Sejong into Korea’s fully-fledged administrative capital is still a work in progress. The plan was first introduced during an election campaign by the former President Roh Moo-hyun. The former administration, however, failed…

Nov 30,2018
Elderly couple donate billions to Korea University

Working hard, saving a fortune and spending every last penny on your children — to many people, this is the model of a virtuous life. One elderly couple instead decided to donate their entire life savings to Korea University in order to he…

Nov 17,2018
Be flexible and don’t be boxed in when devising new policy

Park Seung, the 82-year-old former central bank chief, is considered one of President Moon Jae-in’s economic mentors. He played a major role in drawing up Moon’s economic initiatives, also called J-nomics, when serving as an adviser at a presidenti…

Nov 16,2018
Right sort of reforms needed for investment, innovation

Byeon Yang-ho is one of very few former non-ministerial economic policy makers that the average Korean knows by name. In the early 2000s, Kim served in very prominent government roles, including the head of financial policy at the Ministry of Str…

Nov 09,2018
Uncovering North Korea’s sexual assault epidemic

While the world focuses on whether North Korea will truly abandon its nuclear ambitions, the country’s dismal human rights record has largely fallen out of the picture. But the realities of the repressive state are not lost on the watchdogs workin…

Nov 05,2018
Work-life in balance as Kim tackles German-Korean issues

DAEJEON — Having married former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in May, Kim So-yeon is having a busy honeymoon period. A Seoul representative of the Economic Development Agency of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, she travel…

Nov 02,2018
‘If you want peace, prepare for war,’ says Kim Tae-young

South Korean President Moon Jae-in signed a military agreement as an addition to the Pyongyang Declaration, announced on Sept. 19 based on his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The agreement calls for ending military hostilities in all dom…

Oct 26,2018
‘You cannot innovate without flexibility in the labor market’

Chang Byung-gyu joined the Presidential Committee on the Fourth Industrial Revolution as its chairman a year ago. He started off his term hoping to usher in a new era of innovation with deregulation and advancements in artificial intelligence and big…

Oct 19,2018
Geological engineer saw kindergarten collapse coming

Sangdo Public Kindergarten, located in Dongjak District, southern Seoul, was severely damaged on Sept. 7 after a retaining wall at a nearby construction site let out. One expert issued a warning that the collapse could happen months before it did. …

Oct 13,2018

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