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Turning a blind eye (KOR)

An increasing number of people have started wondering about the raison d’être of a government after watching the Moon Jae-in administration’s negligence of the extreme violence exercised by members of a truckers’ union under the...

2021-09-27

Where should Korea be headed? (KOR)

“3…2…1. Mark! Sunday, 3 August 1958; 2315 Eastern Daylight Saving Time. For the U.S. and the U.S. Navy: the North Pole.”Nuclear-powered submarine USS Nautilus was the first submarine to pass through the North Pole. Commander...

2021-09-27

Shame on wishy-washy guidelines (KOR)

After daily Covid-19 cases exceeded 3,000 on Saturday, concerns are deepening over whether we really can return to normal lives. In an urgent briefing, Jeong Eun-kyeong, commissioner of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention...

2021-09-26

Will Beijing save Evergrande? (KOR)

The latest hot topic in China is real estate developer Evergrande Group’s possible bankruptcy. In the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Evergrande’s share price plunged by 10.24 percentage points last Monday. The stock price fell from...

2021-09-26

A fast investigation is key (KOR)

The alleged favoritism over a fledgling asset management company in a development project in Seongnam under then-mayor Lee Jae-myung — current Gyeonggi Governor and frontrunner among presidential candidates of the ruling...

2021-09-23

Secrets of the Gen MZ (KOR)

Generation MZ is a term referring to both millennials born between 1980 and 1995 and Gen Z’s born between 1996 and 2010. It is a classification for marketing and is now used widely in politics and economics....

2021-09-23

Stuck in an illusion (KOR)

... of the UN General Assembly, he proposed

2021-09-22

Withdrawing money from an ATM (KOR)

The first ATM machine was installed by Barclays Bank in 1967 at its Enfield branch in west London. The machine was invented by John Shepard Barron (1925-2010), who was inspired by a chocolate...

2021-09-22

Digging into suspicions over Lee (KOR)

Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myung agreed to an investigation into a suspicious development project in Daejang-dong, Seongnam City in 2015 when he was the mayor. Lee, a frontrunner in the ruling Democratic Party (DP) primary for the...

2021-09-16

Code Red for the globe (KOR)

“This is Code Red. The nation and the world are in peril,” said U.S. President Joe Biden when he visited Queens, New York in the aftermath of the flood on September 7. He mentioned “code red,” a warning for emergency situations...

2021-09-16

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