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The advent of AI judges (KOR)
KIM SUNG-TAK The author is a London correspondent of the JoongAng Ilbo. You don’t need to go to court for a small claims trial under 7,000 euro ($7,840). You don’t need to meet the judge. The court date is simply set and the decision is …
Apr 03,2019
Nominees in trouble (KOR)
President Moon Jae-in is urging opposition parties to reconsider their veto of the remaining five nominees to head government ministries. The Blue House does not want any of them to step down, as seen in the cases of Cho Dong-ho, the former science m…
Apr 02,2019
Open Moon’s eyes and ears (KOR)
In a Gallup Korea poll released over the weekend, President Moon Jae-in’s approval rating sank to 43 percent and the ruling Democratic Party’s (DP) to 35 percent, both their lowest since Moon was elected president in May 2017. Negative views of the p…
Apr 02,2019
Can you trust the government? (KOR)
LEE SO-A The author is a reporter at JoongAng Ilbo Innovation Lab. A friend of mine was hospitalized for a high fever, but was not informed of their diagnosis for a long time. The doctor may have been incompetent, so he considered moving…
Apr 02,2019
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President Moon Jae-in has withdrawn his nomination of Cho Dong-ho as minister of science and ICT.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
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