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State budget planners are struggling with the thorny task of meeting an increase in welfare spending amid a growing shortfall of tax revenue. Their work has …

Korea, which maintains the highest suicide rate among major developed nations, remains just a step away from regaining another disgraceful No. 1 position ― …

Years from now, when the history of Barack Obama’s much-maligned Asia “pivot” is written, he may owe a debt of gratitude to an unlikely ally: Xi Jinping. …

Understandably, the underlying assumption at first was that trips between Seoul and Sejong would be occasional: Ministers and government officials would stay …

The lineup sounds like the cast of a new “The Avengers” movie: a former CNN anchor, a former White House spokesman, and a legal team that won a landmark …

In a conflict as entrenched and hate-filled as the one between Israelis and Palestinians, there will always be people eager to make the worst of a horrific …

Recently, South Korea was severely hit by two major disasters. One was the sinking of the Sewol ferry, which cost hundreds of young lives, and the other was …

The Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz once wrote that the non-Western world was “condemned to be modern.” This uncompromising verdict headlines the …

The alarm bell had already been ringing since early this year, but the won’s rise to a fresh six-year high last week should further alert all the players in …

Korean society is already notorious for its high suicide rate. But the latest statistics released last week show that the nation has been doing little to cure …