The Korea Herald

[Michael R. Bloomberg, Carl Pope] Biden’s strongest climate allies are outside Washington

Mar 2, 2021

President Joe Biden’s ability to bring together the two parties in Congress is already being tested. But the good news is that on at least one issue -- climate change -- the fate of the president’s a...
[Carl P. Leubsdorf] Biden takes first steps towards return to normalcy abroad

Mar 2, 2021

Two years ago, even before launching his presidential bid, Joe Biden told Western European leaders that Donald Trump’s America First foreign policy was a momentary blip in US global leadership. “I p...
[Shang-Jin Wei] Can US escape stimulus trap?

Mar 1, 2021

As US President Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion economic stimulus package works its way through Congress, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers (a Democrat) and many Republicans argue that th...
[Jean Pisani-Ferry] Central bankers keen to take on new responsibilities

Mar 1, 2021

Twenty years ago, central bankers were proudly narrow-minded and conservative. They made a virtue of caring more about inflation than about the average citizen, and took great pains to be obsessively...
[Digital Simplicity] Disclosure of odds of getting game items in dispute

Feb 27, 2021

Playing a mobile game is supposed to be entertaining. But it’s no longer deemed a plaything. For instance, 0.00029 percent is the official chance that gamers, in theory, could get an extremely rare i...
[Robert J. Fouser] Going beyond US-China tensions

Feb 26, 2021

In the first month of his presidency, Joe Biden has worked hard to reach out to longtime allies of the US that were slighted during the Trump years. The US counts South Korea and Japan as two of its ...
[Kim Myong-sik] Pure motivation desired for academic research

Feb 25, 2021

Academic freedom is universally recognized and constitutionally protected here like the precious freedom of expression and the freedom of movement. Then what about an academic paper on the World War ...
[Doyle McManus] How to end a very long war

Feb 25, 2021

On paper, the United States is committed to withdrawing its last 2,500 troops from Afghanistan less than 10 weeks from now, on May 1. That’s under a deal the Trump administration made last year with ...
[Kim Seong-kon] Hamlet and Don Quixote tactics in diplomacy

Feb 24, 2021

People say that there are two contrasting types of personalities in the world. One is the Hamlet personality type and the other resembles Don Quixote. The Hamlet type is the one who is lost in though...
[Trudy Rubin] Biden’s foreign policy success

Feb 24, 2021

Earlier this month President Joe Biden went to the State Department to pump up a demoralized foreign service corps, and to tell the world, “America is back. Diplomacy is back at the center of our for...
[Josef Joffe] Germany’s empty logic for Nord Stream 2

Feb 23, 2021

Nord Stream 2, the almost-finished pipeline running directly from Russia to Germany, is not really about securing cheap natural gas. It is about personal gain and these two countries’ national intere...
[Ana Palacio] Europe’s misadventure in Moscow

Feb 23, 2021

When the European Union’s foreign ministers convene on Feb. 22, they will have to confront the political fallout from the ill-fated visit to Moscow by Josep Borrell, the EU’s High Representative for ...
[Minky Worden] China is escalating human rights abuses in runup to 2022 Olympics. Will IOC look the other way?

Feb 22, 2021

Last September, five international labor auditing firms declared they could no longer help companies audit their supply chains in China’s Xinjiang region because the Chinese government’s controls and...
[Doyle McManus] How the pandemic is helping Biden advance his broader economic agenda

Feb 22, 2021

When Joe Biden launched his campaign for the presidency in 2019, his economic proposals were relatively modest updates of the middle-class-oriented agenda he championed as vice president under Barack...
[Serendipity] Keep indie scene alive

Feb 19, 2021

Seollal, or Lunar New Year’s Day, typically means staying up until late at night the previous day and waking up at the crack of dawn to prepare the family breakfast. In our family, which does not hol...