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Last year’s Sewol ferry disaster and a string of corruption scandals have bolstered public pressure on the National Assembly to pass bills aimed at curbing …

Korea struggled in 2014 to come to terms with the immense loss of life in the Sewol ferry accident in April. As Korea enters 2015, the national mood remains …

Criticizing economics for not being scientific enough is a crime of which many of us ― I’ve done it ― are guilty. But there’s a right way to do it and …

Recently, I came across an intriguing interview in a Korean daily of an American professor specializing in North Korea. As an outsider, the foreign professor …

A few years ago, Charles Barkley got into a lot of trouble for making the audacious observation that sports figures didn’t need to be role models. Legions of …

In criticizing U.S. firms that moved their headquarters to lower-tax countries, President Barack Obama has said that corporate executives are paid not only to …

The number of sex crimes is expected to rise this year while murder, robbery and traffic accident cases are projected to decline. In its safety forecast for …

The first Korean suspected of having contracted Ebola tested negative in the preliminary test for the deadly virus, but it is too early to feel relieved. The …

When we were little, Christmas meant decorating the tree, making holiday cookies, singing Christmas carols while our older sister played the piano, and most of …

“For an American in the 21st century, it is hard to imagine the world before antibiotics. At the beginning of the 20th century as many as 9 women out of …