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[Editorial] Healthy gaming culture

Recognition of gaming addiction as disease must be taken as chance to remove side effects

May 28, 2019
Editorial
[Andrew Sheng] Why are stock markets complacent?

There has been so much bad news lately that the only good news, if you believe it, lies in the stock market. Simply put, despite the trade war and all the political bad news, the US stock markets hov...

May 27, 2019
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[Karl W. Smith] How this trade war will remake the world

US President Donald Trump has long said the goal of his trade policy is simply to get better deals for Americans. But as the trade war intensifies, it seems increasingly likely that his policies will...

May 27, 2019
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[Editorial] Diplomatic secrets

National interests suffer due to political antagonism

May 27, 2019
Editorial
[J. Bradford DeLong] Robo-apocalypse? Not in your lifetime

Will the imminent “rise of the robots” threaten future human employment? The most thoughtful discussion of that question can be found in MIT economist David H. Autor’s 2015 paper, “Why Are There Sti...

May 26, 2019
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[Adam Minter] China’s brightest are the trade war’s latest casualties

It’s college graduation season in China and the timing couldn’t be much worse for the record-breaking 8.34 million students emerging from university this year. A slowing economy, hobbled further by t...

May 26, 2019
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[Editorial] Tilted ground

Ratification of ILO conventions needs to be accompanied by proper legal revisions

May 26, 2019
Editorial
[Editorial] Conditions for reform

Plan fails to address concerns over arbitrary investigation by police, ensure independence

May 23, 2019
Editorial
[David Ignatius] Trump confronts China's tech threat

Huawei’s name is often translated in English as “Chinese excellence.” The Trump administration last week embarked on a campaign to rebrand the tech giant, in effect, as a “Chinese threat” and check i...

May 23, 2019
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[Kim Myong-sik] Insatiable ‘historians,’ enough is enough

Korea today has an abundant supply of photo artists, poets and historians. New smartphones are equipped with high-definition cameras of 12 to 16 megapixels, which can produce great pictures. But our...

May 22, 2019
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[Carl P. Leubsdorf] One constant to Trump’s foreign policy: failure

As a presidential candidate in 2016, Donald Trump promised to pursue an “unpredictable” foreign policy to keep the nation’s enemies off balance. But in recent weeks, his unpredictability seems to be ...

May 22, 2019
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[Editorial] Mend ties

South Korea, Japan need to make efforts to restore ties

May 22, 2019
Editorial
[Kwon Deok-cheol] A health care win-win for S. Korea, Kuwait

This year marks the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties between South Korea and Kuwait. In celebration of the occasion, I visited Kuwait along with Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon to further strengthen bi...

May 21, 2019
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[Robert J. Fouser] Changes in “street economy”

When I visited South Korea in the spring of 2018, everybody was talking about the breakthrough with North Korea. A year later, everybody is talking about the economy. Small business owners, in parti...

May 21, 2019
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[Kim Seong-kon] Korea and karaoke rooms

Traditionally, Koreans are known to enjoy singing and dancing tremendously. Perhaps singing and dancing was our ancestors’ daily ritual and thus runs in our blood. Watching K-pop singers dazzle on t...

May 21, 2019
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