Taming soaring house prices in Seoul has always been a popular policy goal of almost all governments in South Korea. With the Moon Jae-in administration’s latest string of strict curbs stoking controversies, a civic group released data showing that the apartment prices in Seoul have continued to soar for long, except during the Lee Myung-bak administration, and the increase has been the sharpest under Moon’s rule. According to the Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice that

Until recently, China was unmistakably trying to be a hegemon in the image of the United States, increasingly complementing its growing hard power with soft power. But China seems to have missed its opportunity to build a serious rival to, or even supplant, the existing world economic order fashioned by the US following World War II. All the elements of success seemed to be falling into place for China. It launched the Belt and Road Initiative, a transnational infrastructure investment program

진행자: 임현수, Kevin Lee Selzer 1. Korea may start charging passengers arriving with COVID-19 아이튠즈(아이폰): https://itunes.apple.com/kr/podcast/koliaheleoldeu-paskaeseuteu/id686406253?mt=2 팟빵 (안드로이드): http://www.podbbang.com/ch/6638 [1] South Korean health officials said Tuesday they may start charging passengers arriving with COVID-19 for medical expenses, if the coronavirus influx continues to place a strain on the medical capacity. *influx: (사람 등이) 밀어닥침 *strain: 부담, 중압감 *capacity: 수용력 [2] Yoo

In May 2018, President Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal because it was “defective at its core.” But if Tehran were willing to negotiate a better agreement, he would be “ready, willing and able” to join them. Last week, Iran announced that it was ready for a new deal. Unfortunately, that deal would be with China, rather than the United States. And instead of curtailing Iran’s nuclear capabilities, the new agreement would est

The author is president of Novartis Korea. His comments are his own. -- Ed. We were duly warned of a pandemic. This warning did not come in some obscure academic journals. Blockbuster movies such as “Contagion,” TED Talks viewed by millions and bestselling books and magazines had laid out ample forewarnings before us. How this will play out -- including shortages of incubators and NF-95 masks -- was described with astounding accuracy. Still, we ended up being underprepared. Why? H

The blockbuster Supreme Court term that just ended was a (nearly) unmitigated disaster for movement conservatives. Chief Justice John Roberts declined to overturn precedent on abortion rights. Conservative activist Justice Neil Gorsuch showed he would join the court’s liberals when the statutory text tells him to. The natural question then is, what’s next? What are the implications for the future of the court? The short answer is that the court’s future direction is in flux l

When White House officials bullied Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman into retirement this month the damage surpassed the ruination of a patriotic officer's career. Vindman is the decorated Iraq war veteran and Ukraine expert on the National Security Council who drew President Donald Trump’s wrath for his honest testimony under oath at the impeachment hearings. He is also an immigrant, brought here by his parents as a child from the Soviet Union. At the hearings he spoke eloquently of his grati

An SK IE Technology official checks on rolls of flexible cover window, a material used for flexible displays, waiting for shipment at the company’s factory in Jeungpyeong, North Chungcheong Province, on Sunday.  SKIET began commercial production of the material on the same day.  (khnews@heraldcorp.com)