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Loopholes guaranteed
A bill cracking down on conflict of interests among holders of public office passed a preliminary review by the legislative subcommittee of the National Policy Committee after a bipartisan agreement between the ruling Democratic...
What did the government do?
Koreans have become fretful of health and environmental hazards after their closest neighbor Japan decided to start discharging tons of radioactive water from the crippled nuclear power plant in Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean....
Herd immunity pipe dream
Korea faces a double whammy of delayed Covid-19 vaccines and mounting daily cases. If this continues, the Moon Jae-in administration can hardly realize its original goal of forming herd immunity by November. The government must...
Fountain
Knockdown generation
There are some expressions that we became familiar with because of the Covid-19 outbreak, such as pandemic, self-quarantine, contactless and social distancing. The Collins Dictionary chose “lockdown” as the Word of the Year in...
Taiwan stuck in the middle
Due to the worldwide shortage of semiconductor chips after the pandemic, carmakers in North America such as GM and Ford have temporarily suspended factory operations or reduced production. Kia and Toyota are among the companies...
Creating an agency for children
I lived in an ordinary apartment complex in Seoul. There were multiple childcare facilities within the complex, and it was not hard to find a spot. But pick-up and drop-off was the problem. Children could attend from 9 a.m. to 3...
Letters
Clubhouse — momentary boom or social trailblazer?
A farewell to Kim Young-hie
Kang Tae-uk The author is an opinion editor of the Korea JoongAng Daily. My eternal mentor Kim Young-hie — the legendary journalist in Korea on par with the late Helen Thomas not only in terms of his seemingly never-ending car
Chasing the trends to survive
Minyoung Son CPG Analyst at Nielsen Korea As of June 2019, the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) market turned to negative growth by -0.5 percent at 33.5 trillion won ($29.7 billion). The main market dragger was the non-food market, whic
Columns
All in for chips
How has South Korea become a global powerhouse in semiconductor production? One industry veteran cited the Korea-U.S. alliance as a primary reason. Just when Samsung was beginning to try its hand at chipmaking in the early 1980s,...
Haste makes waste
Gregory Henderson (1922-1988), who worked at the U.S. Embassy in Korea twice during the Syngman Rhee and Park Chung Hee administrations, said, “Seoul is Korea.” In his 1968 book “The Politics of the Vortex,” the diplomat and...
No hope for change
The ruling Democratic Party’s crushing defeats in the April 7 mayoral by-elections are a clear demand by voters that the Moon Jae-in administration change its direction of governance. But given the attitude of the Blue House and...
Cartoons
2021.04.16 Cartoon
On Thursday, lawmakers passed a bill aimed at banning solicitations and preventing conflict of interest among civil servants, but eased...
2021.04.15 Cartoon
In reaction to the ruling party’s crushing defeats in April 7 mayoral by-elections in Seoul and Busan, President Moon Jae-in hurriedly ordered his...
2021.04.14 Cartoon
After Japan said it would discharge over 1.23 million tons of radioactive waste water stored in tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power...
