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March 3, 2019 Columnists

[Trudy Rubin] Limits to US president’s personal diplomacy

Here is the most glaring takeaway from the collapse of the North Korea summit in Hanoi: You can’t negotiate with a wily dictator as if he were a real-estate mogul in New York. President Donald Trump...

[Jean Pisani-Ferry] The case for green realism

The Green New Deal promoted by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a fast-rising star in the US Congress, and others among her fellow Democrats, may trigger a welcome reset of the discussion on climate-change ...

March 3, 2019
Columnists
[Kim Seong-kon] Drivers of a bus named Korea

Koreans often enjoy mocking their ex-presidents by parodying their governing styles and characteristics. Recently on the internet, I came across a funny poster featuring photos of our ex-presidents w...

February 26, 2019
Columnists
[Robert J. Fouser] Focusing on what works with North Korea

The race for the Democratic nomination for US president in 2020 grows by the week, and more potential candidates are waiting in the wings. Each week also brings a new round of grand proposals: univer...

February 26, 2019
Columnists
[Kim Kyung-ho] Time to ditch dysfunctional policy

President Moon Jae-in was quick in accepting the resignation of his economic adviser Kim Hyun-chul last week, after Kim came under fire for his controversial remarks in a lecture to a group of local ...

February 6, 2019
Columnists
[Kim Myong-sik] Why not scrap faulty campaign pledges?

During the 2017 presidential election following the exit of Park Geun-hye, candidate Moon Jae-in promised the relocation of the presidential office to the central Seoul location of Gwanghwamun from i...

January 16, 2019
Columnists
Widening income inequality heightens call for policy change

Official data showing a continuous widening of income inequality have strengthened calls on the Moon Jae-in administration to scrap its income-led growth policy. Economists urge President Moon and h...

November 26, 2018
Economy
Moon’s policy weakens labor elasticity

The Moon Jae-in administration’s employment policy has precipitated the weakening of the Korean economy’s ability to create new jobs, experts say. According to the Bank of Korea, the country’s emplo...

November 21, 2018
Economy
Korea needs to boost service exports

Korea needs to step up efforts to increase exports in the service sector to offset a possible decline in the outbound shipment of its major manufactured goods, experts here say. Exports have shored ...

November 19, 2018
Economy
Shorter workweek adds to corporate woes

Local companies are struggling to adapt to a shorter workweek and calling for greater flexibility in its application, but their calls face vehement objections from the country’s umbrella labor groups...

November 14, 2018
Economy
Planned profit-sharing scheme causes controversy

Controversy is intensifying over a move by the government and ruling party to encourage large corporations to share profits with their subcontractors and suppliers. Government policymakers and lawma...

November 12, 2018
Economy
Experts call for more infrastructure spending

Calls are growing for the government to increase infrastructure spending to shore up the country’s slowing economy and improve its worsening employment conditions. Since its launch in May last year,...

November 7, 2018
Economy
Concerns rise over impact from falling asset prices

The slowing Korean economy has been shadowed by the possibility of a steep asset devaluation, which could push it deep into a long-term recession. With investment declining and employment worsening,...

November 5, 2018
Economy
Concerns growing over policy detached from reality

Concerns are growing that President Moon Jae-in and his aides have stuck to economic policies detached from the reality of the country’s economy, which is rapidly losing vitality amid deteriorating c...

November 1, 2018
Economy
China-Japan rapprochement adds challenge for Korean economy

The recent move by China and Japan toward reinvigorating their economic partnership could lead to aggravating the external environment for the Korean economy, experts here say. The cooperative mood ...

October 31, 2018
Economy

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