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Shortchanging our military (KOR)
On Monday, the Moon Jae-in administration celebrated the 70th anniversary of the founding of South Korea’s Armed Forces in the Peace Square of the War Memorial in Yongsan, downtown Seoul. But the mood of the event was eerily sullen despite pop singer…
Oct 02,2018
Restore the dignity of the bench (KOR)
The last Sunday of September 2018 will be remembered as a disgraceful day for the Korean court. The offices, homes and cars of judges of the nation’s highest court, including former Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang Sung-tae, were searched. Prosecutor…
Oct 02,2018
A spiritless Armed Forces Day (KOR)
KIM SU-JEONG The author is an editorial writer at the JoongAng Ilbo. The South Korean soldiers who risked their lives to defend the country from North Korea’s aggression on June 25, 1950, made today’s Republic of Korea possible. …
Oct 02,2018
Darker prospects ahead (KOR)
Local economic think tanks are coming up with gloomy prospects for next year. In a recent report on the outlook for the Korean economy in 2019, the Hyundai Research Institute forecast that our growth rate will be a meager 2.6 percent next year. The i…
Oct 01,2018
A useless law (KOR)
Riding a bike without a helmet anywhere in Korea is now illegal thanks to a traffic law provision that went into effect last week. The new statute is more or less a dumb law because even if a helmetless person is caught and taken to the police office…
Oct 01,2018
Creating a system to check power (KOR)
MOON SO-YOUNG The author is the cultural news editor of the Korea JoongAng Daily. Over the past week, celebrities were sentenced to prison terms in Korea and the United States for sexual harassment charges for the first time since …
Oct 01,2018
Collateral damage expected (KOR)
The trade war between the United States and China is dealing a blow to the friendship of the two countries’ leaders. U.S. President Donald Trump recently said he and Chinese President Xi Jinping might not be friends anymore after he accused China of …
Sept 29,2018
Korea faces interest-rate dilemma (KOR)
The age of ultra-low interest rates is ending. The United States has tapered off its massive monetary easing program and is tightening now that the economy is running well. The Korean economy is in a dilemma; confidence here is probably too weak to m…
Sept 29,2018
The protocol problem (KOR)
KIM NAM-JOONG The author is an editorial writer of the JoongAng Ilbo. In 1992, U.S. President George H. W. Bush visited Radio Korea, a Korean-language radio station in Los Angeles. The president wanted to show his gratitude for the …
Sept 29,2018
Time for North to prove seriousness (KOR)
The stalled negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang over the denuclearization of North Korea will likely be put back on track after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accepted his North Korean counterpart Ri Yong-ho’s invitation to meet in Pyo…
Sept 28,2018
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