The Korea Herald

Radiation-free food bolsters Korea’s exports to Japan

IndustryAug 1, 2011

South Korean food exports to Japan are climbing at the fastest pace on record after radioactive contamination and supply disruptions prompted consumers to switch to overseas producers.Sales of watermelons, tuna and noodles led a 38 percent jump in South Korea’s shipments of food to its Asian neighbo
Gas engines at center of fuel efficiency drive

IndustryAug 1, 2011
Auto industry could lead U.S. recovery

IndustryAug 1, 2011
China manufacturing exceeds estimates

IndustryAug 1, 2011

A Chinese manufacturing index was higher than economists estimated in July, signaling the world’s second-biggest economy is withstanding higher interest rates and tightened credit. The Purchasing Managers’ Index was at 50.7 for July compared with 50.9 in June, the China Federation of Logistics and P
HSBC to sell 195 branches for $1b

IndustryAug 1, 2011
Bangkok property boom on the rise

IndustryAug 1, 2011

A 77-storey skyscraper is set to become the latest, and tallest, addition to Bangkok’s ever-changing skyline, already transformed by a construction boom that has raised fears of a property bubble.Variously described on Internet forums as looking “like it has been eaten by giant termites” and reflect
A look at Asia in U.S. culture

BooksAug 1, 2011

Although the comics publisher DC Comics is now co-headed by Jim Lee, an Asian-American, for many decades American comics regularly featured racist depictions of Asians as inscrutable masterminds and devious coolies, among other stereotypes.A new exhibition at New York University (NYU), titled “Marve
‘White Taj Mahal’ of Thailand lures tourists

TravelAug 1, 2011

What a nightmare! Whenever you see photographs of Thailand’s White Temple, which lies on the fringes of that tri-nation junction, the Golden Triangle, it looks luminously beautiful like the Taj Mahal.Now, however, the skies above the White Temple or Wat Rong Khun are dowdy and cloudy, and the landma
[Gordon Brown] In the wake of the euro summit

ViewpointsAug 1, 2011

LONDON ― It was said of one 19th century British politician that he never missed a chance to let slip an opportunity.Will the euro summit of 2011 be remembered as “the day European leaders faced the crisis down” ― or will it be viewed, in retrospect, as the turning point at which history failed to t
[Tim Rutten] Again, the danger posed by hate-laced propaganda

ViewpointsAug 1, 2011

Sixteen years ago, I was one of the Los Angeles Times writers assigned to cover the Oklahoma City bombing. It was one of those wrenching stories that stand out in a reportorial memory that now extends back more than four decades, partly because my assignment was to each day write about the children
[Editorial] Espionage investigation

EditorialAug 1, 2011

Reports of the ongoing investigation into an alleged espionage network for North Korea brings us to a dj vu of the 1960s or 70s when the authorities occasionally, or rather frequently, exposed subversive groups maneuvering to collect information here and topple the government on orders from Pyongyan
[Editorial] ‘Hope Bus’ protests

EditorialAug 1, 2011

The “Hope Bus” demonstrations near a shipyard of the Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction in Busan last weekend ended without serious disturbances. But turmoil can resume any time as a coalition of leftist groups has chosen the labor trouble at the midsized shipbuilding company as a rallying poi
[Dominique Moisi] Israel’s lonely economic prosperity

ViewpointsAug 1, 2011

PARIS ― It is difficult not to be struck by the contrast between the “Asian”-like energy of Israel’s economy and civil society and the purely defensive nature of its approach to political change, both within and outside the country. A recent law bars Israeli citizens from supporting Western boycotts
[Karl Friedhoff] Taking a crowbar to the ‘Baseball Three’

ViewpointsAug 1, 2011

Throughout the six-party talks, the “Baseball Three” ― a term reportedly coined by Ambassador Christopher Hill to describe the baseball-playing democracies of Japan, South Korea and the United States ― have banded together in an attempt to denuclearize North Korea. However, maintaining unity among t
[Gregory Rodriguez] White flight, to the city

ViewpointsAug 1, 2011

For nearly half a century, the term “inner city” has been code for poor and minority. But now white flight ― the decades-long trend of affluent Anglos leaving the urban core for leafier suburban cul-de-sacs ― has run its course. And “inner city” is about to take on a whole new meaning.New census dat