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[Monitor] Kospi nears 2,400, buoyed by retail investors

Seoul’s main bourse Kospi broke its daily record for the four consecutive day from Tuesday through Friday last week, raising expectations it may exceed the 2,400-point mark soon. According to data b...

[Editorial] Read public opinion

President Moon Jae-in’s chief of staff Noh Young-min and five senior secretaries in Noh’s office offered to resign Friday. Cheong Wa Dae said their actions were an expression of intent to take resp...

Today
Editorial
[Seth G. Jones & Juan C. Zarate] US faces new threats, but we have failed to adapt

It has now been more than five months since a US intelligence assessment included in President Donald Trump’s Daily Brief suggested that Russia was paying bounties to Taliban fighters for attacking U...

August 7, 2020
Viewpoints
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Europe’s vulnerable ‘last dictator’

In an era of authoritarian populists, at least one iron-fisted leader is looking more vulnerable than he has in decades. Yes, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko will claim another resounding vic...

August 7, 2020
Viewpoints
[Editorial] Senseless legislation

The ruling party’s push for legal changes to stop people from sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the inter-Korean border came to a halt Tuesday at the National Assembly’s Diplomatic Affairs and U...

August 7, 2020
Editorial
[Contribution] Korea’s first locally-built AESA radar will become the eyes of KF-X fighter jets

Radar experts call airborne radar the “flower of radar” for all the cutting-edge technologies used in its development. It is also the most difficult and challenging R&D field, as only a limited numbe...

August 6, 2020
Defense
[Breaking] Seven missing as boats capsize near dam in Chuncheon

At least seven people, including one police officer and a public servant, went missing after boats capsized near a dam that was discharging water due to a risk of flooding, authorities said Thursday....

August 6, 2020
Social affairs
[Monitor] S. Korean government plans new housing projects on state-owned properties

The South Korean government plans to supply 132,000 housing units in Seoul and its neighboring areas, according to an announcement made by the Finance Ministry on Tuesday. For this, the government h...

August 6, 2020
Industry
[Editorial] Guard the rule of law

Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol said Monday that “liberal democracy, the core value of our constitution, means a true democracy that rejects dictatorship and totalitarianism disguised as democracy....

August 6, 2020
Editorial
[Monitor] Chinese, Americans own most homes in Korea

From the beginning of 2017 until the end of May of this year, a total of 23,219 foreign nationals have purchased apartments in South Korea, with the number of units reaching 23,167. The data was rel...

August 5, 2020
Industry
[Ivo Daalder] What Pompeo gets right about China

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to the Nixon Presidential Library last week to proclaim the American opening to China a grand failure. “What do the American people have to show now 50 years o...

August 5, 2020
Viewpoints
[Editorial] Looming conflict

As of Tuesday, it became possible for Seoul to take steps to cash in a Japanese firm’s seized assets here to compensate Korean victims of forced labor during Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule of the peni...

August 5, 2020
Editorial
[팟캐스트] (364) 뉴질랜드 성추행 혐의 한국 외교관 / OECD 한국 소득격차 수준

진행자: 김혜연, Paul Kerry 1. New Zealand ups pressure on Korea to cooperate in diplomat sexual assault case 아이튠즈(아이폰): https://itunes.apple.com/kr/podcast/koliaheleoldeu-paskaeseuteu/id686406253?mt=2 ...

August 4, 2020
Podcast
[Monitor] Lotte’s Shin Dong-bin tightens grip on conglomerate

Last week’s disclosure by family members of the late Lotte Group Chairman Shin Kyuk-ho with regard to changes in their stakes in the group after inheriting assets from Shin showed that his second son...

August 4, 2020
Industry
[Editorial] Vanishing jeonse

The House Lease Protection Act, which was revised to strengthen the rights of tenants and went into effect Friday, gave a jolt to the market. The revised act allows tenants to extend their two-year ...

August 4, 2020
Editorial

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