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Sat, March 25, 2023 | 06:43

Serving the people

Forty-six days ago, the world was astonished to hear about a horrific crowd crush in Itaewon that ended up taking the lives of 158 people. The tragedy was largely attributed to the state's incompetence and indifference in one of the world's self-proclaimed advanced countries.

2022-12-13 17:00

Importance of rule of law

In an unprecedented setback, unionized truckers voted to end their strike on Friday and returned to work. The decision came 15 days after they started their strike, calling for the permanent implementation of a safe trucking freight rate system, guaranteeing a minimum annual wage for truck drivers. The Cargo Truckers' Solidarity division, which is under the umbrella of the Ko...

2022-12-12 16:25

Pressuring North Korea on rights issues

U.S. President Joe Biden's North Korea policy is the same as that of his former boss Barack Obama and his “strategic patience.”

2022-12-11 17:00

Time to take off masks?

Koreans in the central provinces of Chungcheong are like Americans in the Midwest region in some ways. Chungcheong people speak the slowest among Koreans, and people from other provinces make fun of their dialects. They also respond slowest to external developments and do not readily show their feelings. As a result, the two provinces often determine vital election results li...

2022-12-08 17:00

Eleven more days are left before the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Qatar comes to a grand finale. The remaining eight matches, from the quarterfinals to the finals, will be of the highest quality and most thrilling. However, most Koreans are unlikely to lose sleep watching them. For these “patriotic” fans, the World Cup ended early on Tuesday morning (KST) when Brazil dumped Korea o...

2022-12-07 17:00

Ignoring ILO's advice

In recent days President Yoon Suk-yeol has shown his true colors yet again.

2022-12-06 17:00

Economic whammies loom

South Korea is bracing for diverse economic challenges ahead such as a low growth projection, a volatile financial market, rising trade deficit and plenty of other obstacles. Among them, the increasing trade shortfall has been the most outstanding setback for the Korean economy, which is all the more fragile, given its heavy reliance on external trade.

2022-12-05 17:00

IRA challenge for Korea

Nothing shows the political and diplomatic contradictions facing the U.S. government better than its new law, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

2022-12-04 18:03

Zero-COVID in a fix

Just over a year ago, the Chinese government was so proud of its success stamping out COVID-19 that Beijing used it for political propaganda.

2022-12-01 17:00

Start sincere dialogue

The Yoon Suk-yeol administration issued an executive order, Tuesday, forcing striking truck drivers to return to work. The order was made for the first time since it was introduced in 2004 under the 2003-2008 Roh Moo-hyun administration. As an initial step, the government has decided to apply the order to some 2,500 cement truckers to prevent a possible shutdown of industrial...

2022-11-30 17:02

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