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A consensus is needed (국문)
After President Moon Jae-in made it official, a debate on tax hikes is gaining momentum. Following a cabinet meeting last week to devise national strategies to back his expansive programs, Moon announced it was time to choose a path toward raising ta…
July 24,2017
A child is a blessing (국문)
In May, a heated exchange between a reporter and a Lithuanian basketball coach went viral. The topic of concern was Augusto Lima, a player from Spain’s Real Madrid who had been loaned out to the Lithuanian team Zalgiris Kaunas for the season. “Coa…
July 24,2017
Off to a bad start (국문)
North Korea splashed icy water on South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s rapprochement offers — dubbed the “Berlin Initiative” after a speech Moon made there earlier in the month — as calls mount for tougher actions against the defiant lead…
July 22,2017
Supporting adoptees (국문)
46-year-old Han Ho-gyu has been abandoned twice. His biological parents gave him up, and he was adopted by an American family in 1978. He lived as an American named Monte Heinz. In 2009, he was abandoned by the United States. He only learned that…
July 22,2017
Calls for higher taxes directed at the Blue House
The idea of raising taxes is dividing cabinet members and even the administration and the ruling party. President Moon Jae-in’s five-year economic plan announced earlier this week didn’t say precisely how it will afford a budget to boost the slug…
July 22,2017
Samsung heiress told to pay ex-husband $7.6 million
The Seoul Family Court granted a divorce Thursday to Hotel Shilla CEO Lee Boo-jin and Im Woo-jae, former adviser of Samsung Electro-Mechanics, ordering Lee to pay Im 8.6 billion won ($7.6 million) as part of the division of their assets. The court…
July 21,2017
Haste makes waste (국문)
President Moon Jae-in’s reform drive is at full steam. Even though a five-year plan was announced Wednesday by a committee for state affairs planning, parts are already being pushed through. Following his first executive order to upgrade contract-bas…
July 21,2017
The virtue of rest (국문)
A few years ago, I worked for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris for a year. It was an opportunity to personally experience foreign corporate culture. OECD employees are given 30 days of paid vacation after one year of…
July 21,2017
Roadmap and barometer (국문)
The Moon Jae-in administration’s advisory committee on planning state affairs released an ambitious five-year plan on Wednesday. President Moon said it will serve as a road map for the nation during the remainder of his term. The 193-page package inc…
July 20,2017
Moon’s Blue House releases a 100-point agenda
The Moon Jae-in government has announced an ambitious policy to get North Korea to freeze its nuclear program and ultimately terminate it by 2020. The policy was described in a 100-point agenda for the next five years unveiled on Wednesday. “I…
July 20,2017
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