The Korea Herald

[Editorial] Overdue reform

EditorialApr 29, 2020

The National Pension Service announced last week that the number of its beneficiaries exceeded 5 million in April, 33 years after the pension system was introduced. It seemed to be striking a celebr...
[Editorial] Dialogue momentum

EditorialDec 26, 2019

The range of pending issues between South Korea and Japan are so complex and deep-rooted that they cannot be expected to be solved by a meeting between their leaders. Still, Tuesday’s summit between...
[Elizabeth Drew] To impeach or not to impeach

ViewpointsJun 5, 2019

As the US Congress returns from a 10-day break, the question of whether the House of Representatives (controlled by the Democrats) should formally commence the process of impeaching President Donald ...
[Kim Kyung-ho] A way out of the historical trap

ViewpointsMay 29, 2019

President Moon Jae-in may feel that he has adhered to a principled approach to historical issues with Japan. Nevertheless, he may also be realizing that it has come round to undermine his position on...
[Jean Pisani-Ferry] The case for green realism

ViewpointsMar 3, 2019

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

ViewpointsMar 3, 2019

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...
[Kim Seong-kon] Drivers of a bus named Korea

ViewpointsFeb 26, 2019

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...
[Robert J. Fouser] Focusing on what works with North Korea

ViewpointsFeb 26, 2019

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...
[Kim Kyung-ho] Time to ditch dysfunctional policy

ViewpointsFeb 6, 2019

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 ...
[Kim Myong-sik] Why not scrap faulty campaign pledges?

ViewpointsJan 16, 2019

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...
Widening income inequality heightens call for policy change

EconomyNov 26, 2018

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...
Moon’s policy weakens labor elasticity

EconomyNov 21, 2018

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...
Korea needs to boost service exports

EconomyNov 19, 2018

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 ...
Shorter workweek adds to corporate woes

EconomyNov 14, 2018

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...
Planned profit-sharing scheme causes controversy

EconomyNov 12, 2018

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...