A government committee to gather public opinions and make a recommendation on whether to resume the construction of nuclear reactors Shin-Kori 5 and 6 issued sourcebooks of pros and cons to citizen jurors on Thursday.Under its original plan, it should have distributed them on Sept. 16, but it fell more than 10 days behind due to conflicts between the two sides.Because public opinion was divided almost equally on the construction even before the commission was launched on July 24, strife was anti

I am the Canadian owner and director of an English hagwon near Suwon. I’ve lived in Korea for 17 years now, been married to my lovely Korean wife for 15, and been running a hagwon for about 10.Much has happened in my time here since the year 2000. I’ve watched the stellar rise of Samsung, LG, Hyundai, and others. I’ve seen Korea reach the final four in the World Cup, and I’ve learned very much to respect the hard-working attitude of Korean workers and students. It is with great pride that I tell

I felt my first real twinge of regret about not being a US citizen in 2008, when Barack Obama was elected president.An American university where my father once worked as a professor had helped secure green cards for my whole family, in 1992. (I was 11 at the time.) I had renewed my green card twice since then. People often asked why I hadn’t applied for citizenship. This is the life I’m used to, I’d say: smugly returning jury notices, watching elections from a safe distance, standing in endless

The crisis caused by North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats is weighing heavily on many aspects of South Koreans’ lives. A bigger cause for concern is that they may have to brace themselves for a worse situation.The episode of a septuagenarian who withdrew 100 million won ($88,000) from his bank account, reportedly because he was worried that he would not be able to do so in the event of war, shows how the crisis is affecting the psyche of South Koreans. It was fortunate that the man who had

The recent abolition of two labor reform guidelines put forth by the previous government is expected to produce no little effect on both labor and employers. One guideline was to allow fair dismissal of underperforming employees and the other to make it easier for employers to revise the rules of employment to their advantage. 　With the scrapping of the guidelines, the prospect of labor market flexibility has been taken off the table. The Park Geun-hye administration drew up the guidelines after

South Korea needs to improve the institutional environment if it wants to achieve sustained growthRecently, Korea hosted an international conference in Seoul addressing sustained growth in Asia. Surprisingly, Korea’s economic growth model is quite similar to the Japanese model. Although Korea has maintained conservative monetary policy and fiscal balance, the nation does not have sufficient resources to support its aging population. Policymakers are concerned about Japanese-style stagnation if K

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) result of 12.6 percent in Sunday’s election wraps up an important political season for European nationalist populists. It’s a showing that has worried many both in and outside Germany; but, all things considered, it’s another defeat for the far right, which appears to have hit its ceiling in Western Europe for now.The AfD was promptly congratulated by Geert Wilders, whose Party for Freedom (PVV) won 13.1 percent of the vote in the Netherlands in March, and by Ma

Can the addition of North Korea and Venezuela save President Donald Trump’s third travel ban from the constitutional flaws of his first two? By rights, the answer should be no -- and the new ban would be unlikely to survive careful judicial scrutiny of its shaky logic.But in the real world, the US Supreme Court may take the opportunity to de-escalate the ongoing conflict between the Trump administration and the judiciary. If that is so, a majority of the justices could simply defer to Trump’s as

진행자: 김보경 기자, Anitya McKay1.볼보, 8년만에 2세대 ‘XC60’ 출시기사요약: 최근 한국에서 인지도를 높이고 있는 볼보 코리아가 8년 만에 풀체인지 2세대 중형 SUV XC60을 출시했습니다. 1세대 모델은 3년 연속 유럽 프리미엄 중형 SUV 1위를 달성한 인기 모델입니다. 그리고 이번 2세대 모델은 볼보 그룹내 첫 번째 한국인 디자이너는 이정현 디자이너가 외관 다자인을 맡았습니다. 아이튠즈(아이폰): https://itunes.apple.com/kr/podcast/koliaheleoldeu-paskaeseuteu/id686406253?mt=2팟빵 (안드로이드): http://www.podbbang.com/ch/6638Volvo Korea rolls out SUV designed by first Korean designer[1]Volvo Car Korea, the local importer and distributor of the Swedish automaker