The employment situation board installed in President Moon Jae-in’s office Wednesday vividly shows his strong will to create jobs.Moon and his secretaries can take a glance at key labor statistics including employment rate, jobless rate, youth jobless rate, wage disparity and working hours. Job creation was one of his key election pledges. His first executive order, signed on May 10 when he took office, was to establish a presidential committee on job creation. He said he would check the display

British police were justifiably furious when evidence from their investigation into the Manchester terrorist attack found its way into news reports. The leaks undermine the investigation and the confidence of victims and witnesses, whose cooperation is crucial.The immediate consequence is that Manchester police have stopped sharing information about their investigation with US officials, who are widely believed to the source of the leaks. That is bad enough. The more long-term danger is that the

The number of foreigners illegally staying in the country rose for the fourth month in a row last month, coming to nearly 11 percent of all foreign nationals here, monthly data from the Justice Ministry showed Friday. According to the data, the figure was at 220,510 in April, or 10.8 percent of 2,024,818 foreigners here, up 3.1 percent from a year ago. The corresponding figures were 208,971 in December, 211,320 in January, 214,615 in February and 217,141 in March. “The fourth consecutive month o

Now into his third week as the chief executive, President Moon Jae-in seems to be off to a good start, with his approval ratings exceeding 80 percent. Not all what he says and does is good or assuring, however. North Korea is one area of such concern. The biggest problem is that Moon and his top aides appear to be rushing to appease North Korea despite the lack of progress in efforts to rein in the rogue state’s nuclear and missile threats. It would be unsurprising if Moon, whose former boss Roh

Girls scream at concerts. Girls screamed for Frank Sinatra, for Elvis Presley, for The Beatles, for The Supremes, for Madonna, for Michael Jackson, for Prince, for Taylor Swift. Monday night, girls and their moms in Manchester, England, were screaming for Ariana Grande, a pop singer I’d never heard of until I saw the news alerts flashing on my computer.　Girls are not supposed to scream at concerts because a bomb has gone off at the back of the hall. Music fans, girls and boys, women and men, are