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How not to choose ministers (KOR)
President Moon Jae-in has withdrawn his nomination of Cho Dong-ho as minister of science and ICT. On the same day, Choi Jeong-ho — Moon’s pick to head the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport — also stepped down. With the new d…
Apr 01,2019
Normalize ties with Tokyo (KOR)
Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama proposed the crown prince of Japan should visit South Korea after he becomes the new emperor in May to mend ties between the two neighbors. The process may not be simple, but the visit would help “bilater…
Apr 01,2019
Revival of electric cars (KOR)
LEE DONG-HYUN The author is the deputy editor of industrial news team at the JoongAng Ilbo. Stanford Ovshinsky had more than 400 patents and ran a company for more than 40 years. He made hundreds of millions of dollars and lost as…
Apr 01,2019
Dangers of disinformation (KOR)
What was the basis for President Moon Jae-in declaring 10 days ago that the economy was recovering? The February industrial data from Statistics Korea released on Friday show the opposite. Output sank 1.4 percent from a year ago and retail sales was …
Mar 30,2019
Hypocrisy at the top (KOR)
In June 2017, a month after President Moon Jae-in took office, the government announced its first set of measures to cool off the real estate market, pushing down caps on loan-to-value and debt-to-income ratios by 10 percentage points to restrict mor…
Mar 30,2019
Awaiting Yang’s return (KOR)
SEO SEUNG-WOOK The author is a Tokyo bureau chief of the JoongAng Ilbo. “It will go as the book, just as it is.” I vividly remember what he said at a Korean restaurant in Yeouido, western Seoul, in March 2015. It was his response wh…
Mar 30,2019
What’s the point? (KOR)
Confirmation hearings for seven nominees to head ministries for the Moon Jae-in administration ended Thursday. Despite Moon’s bid for a major reshuffle, various types of inappropriate histories and wealth accumulation surfaced in the course of the fo…
Mar 29,2019
Who do you remember? (KOR)
KANG HYE-RAN The author is a deputy international news editor of the JoongAng Ilbo. “I saw hope. I was impressed that she understood not all Muslims are extremists but humans,” said Muslim journalist Alpago Sinasi. Sinasi is a …
Mar 29,2019
Questionable stewardship (KOR)
Hanjin Group Chairman Cho Yang-ho was forced to relinquish his position on Korean Air’s board of directors Wednesday because he would have failed to secure two-thirds of the votes from shareholders needed to approve an extension of his term. Disappro…
Mar 29,2019
Changing her stripes (KOR)
In a confirmation hearing Wednesday at the National Assembly, lawmakers harshly criticized Rep. Park Young-sun, a nominee to head the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, for not submitting required documents to prove her qualifications to head the ministr…
Mar 28,2019
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