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Thu, July 7, 2022 | 14:02

Desperate cry for truth

A government has no reason to exist if it neglects or fails to protect people's lives and their property. A case in point could be the previous Moon Jae-in administration's failure to save a fisheries official who was shot to death by the North Korean military in 2020.

Park Yoon-bae | 2022-07-06 16:48

Do more to guarantee children's right to a family

We write to you seeking to highlight the situation affecting the happiness of the nearly 30,000 orphans and vulnerable children in Korea, who are growing up in welfare homes without a family to care for them.

2022-07-06 16:34

Deepening crisis in Pakistan

Indubitably, Pakistan is nowadays passing through one of the most turbulent periods in its recent history. On the surface, it is in serious political turmoil. But, intrinsically, it is an amalgamation of financial and political tribulations which are dragging the country into a slough of uncertainty. The whole saga started in mid-March of this year when the opposition submitt...

2022-07-06 16:25

Hub policy needs right target!

Incheon is poised to start the “New Hong Kong City Project” which aims to develop the western port city into the global financial hub of Asia. As multinational businesses and financial companies begin to leave Hong Kong due to security issues, Incheon is seeking to attract them, taking Hong Kong's luster and becoming the new business hub. A public committee will be organized ...

2022-07-05 16:00

China-Japan relations critical to South Korea's post-NATO summit strategic planning

South Korea's NATO initiation got off on the right foot. Korea took the occasion of its first-ever NATO summit attendance on June 29-30 to prove its commitment to becoming a “global pivotal state.” It stood with the members' commitment to the perseverance of universal values and rules-based order with its wholehearted pronouncement of support for Ukraine. It also agreed to fo...

2022-07-04 17:00

US front in global war on women

The political ructions unleashed in the United States by the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision establishing a federal right to abortion, have been immediate and furious. But less attention has been paid to the international backdrop against which the Court's decision landed. Evidence from around the world points to an increasingly wi...

2022-07-04 16:34

Combating COVID-19: lessons learned from South Korea

I remember the phone call like it was yesterday - a buzzing ringtone just as I was about to start dinner before heading off to watch the well-acclaimed film, Parasite. It was February 2020 and I was a new resident in Korea.

2022-07-03 16:09

Digitalization of rural communities leads way to better future

It wasn't that long ago that internet connectivity faded the moment one left a populated area like a city or big town; “no service” was the take-away message back then. But thanks to 3G, 4G and 5G mobile technology, coupled with the widespread installation of cellular towers in rural areas across regions, that little message shows up much less frequently.

2022-06-30 16:22

A thaw in China-US diplomatic relations? We can only hope

In Beijing now, even the Biden administration may be singing in a new key. In recent weeks, its new Ambassador Nicholas Burns has posed for countless photo-ops with the relish of a politician hustling for office. For all the seeming Twitter-type superficiality, though, it is quite good to see Washington waving the friendly side of the American flag.

2022-06-30 16:07

What happens when honest citizens get targeted by fascists

To millions of oblivious Americans, “democracy” is just an abstraction conjured by dead men in powdered wigs, and “fascism” is just something with swastikas on the History Channel.

2022-06-30 16:00

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