The Korea Herald

[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...
[Lee Kyong-hee] Dilkusha – a romantic link to colonial past

Feb 18, 2021

After years of delays, the house of Albert Wilder and Mary Linley Taylor by a famous ginkgo tree in central Seoul will finally open to the public next month. The opening of this storied residence of ...
[James Stavridis] Keeping troops in Afghanistan makes US safer

Feb 18, 2021

Over the four years I led the Afghan war effort as supreme allied commander at NATO, I was lucky to have four superb generals working for me as the in-country commanders of the International Security...
[Kim Seong-kon] What do Americans fear most?

Feb 17, 2021

It is widely known that Americans value individuality, independence, and self-sufficiency. Indeed, Americans do not want others to interfere with their lives and thus resist when the government tries...
[Fred Bronstein] The fine arts grapple with COVID-19

Feb 17, 2021

In August, the Brookings Institution published a study on the impact of the pandemic on the arts and culture industry across the United States. The study painted a devastating picture of the immediat...
[Storer H. Rowley] How Biden can fix America’s tarnished image

Feb 16, 2021

In the shadow of his predecessor’s impeachment trial, President Joe Biden is taking up the challenge of restoring America’s tarnished image in the world by making this case: The nation has survived ...
[Slawomir Sierakowski] Will Russia’s future be Belarus’s present?

Feb 15, 2021

The biggest wave of protests in years has swept Russia, raising hopes that popular pressure will persist and intensify, gradually eroding an autocratic regime, as is happening in neighboring Belarus....
[Robert J. Fouser] Pandemic leadership needed

Feb 15, 2021

Positive news about vaccines at the end of 2020 raised hopes that the COVID-19 pandemic would soon end in 2021. Less than two months into the new year, those hopes are slipping away. Mutant variants ...
[Kim Myong-sik] Lying chief justice abandons public trust in court

Feb 11, 2021

During the past four years, President Moon Jae-in anxiously pushed reforms in South Korea’s law enforcement system, whether for the sake of social justice or for the security of his leftist rule. In ...
[Noah Feldman] Impeachment doesn‘t violate Trump’s rights

Feb 11, 2021

The extended trial brief filed by Donald Trump‘s lawyers advances three defenses: that Trump did not incite the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol; that the Senate can’t try a president who is no longer in...
[Doyle McManus] Joe Biden opted to go big

Feb 10, 2021

When Joe Biden arrived in the White House, he promised a new dawn of unity and bipartisanship. But when he began to pursue a COVID-19 relief bill, he met with Republican senators for only about two h...
[Kim Seong-kon] The Divided States of America vs. divided Korea

Feb 10, 2021

I have always thought that South Korea was radically different from America. In recent history, however, I have found striking similarities between the two countries, albeit in opposite ways. I am no...
[Eli Lake] Biden wants to mend US-Saudi ties

Feb 9, 2021

Anyone paying attention for the last three years should not be surprised that President Joe Biden on Thursday announced the end to US support for Saudi offensive operations in Yemen, calling the war ...
[Andreas Kluth] US-German discord over Russian gas

Feb 8, 2021

The new transatlantic honeymoon isn’t over yet. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, like most European leaders, is still basking in the afterglow of Joe Biden’s inauguration as the 46th president of the...
[Ram Garikipati] GameStop frenzy amid shorting debate in Korea

Feb 8, 2021

Retail investors across the world, including South Korea, were captivated recently by the revolt against short selling by Wall Street hedge funds, which jacked up the stocks of a few firms, video gam...