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Overhauling opposition NPAD far from becoming an election-winning force Rep. Moon Jae-in, chairman of the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy, …

Youth employment fund Efforts should focus on creating more jobs President Park Geun-hye has demonstrated her commitment to increasing the country’s youth …

College rankings miss the mark After heavy lobbying from some of the nation‘s most elite institutions of higher education, the president has just abandoned …

In his inaugural address of 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said that, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Those words provide guidance …

Who wouldn’t be moved at the sight of women, children and the elderly in the stream of refugees taking the ultimate risk, defying death itself in rickety …

The Pakistani love affair with meat has been a long and enduring one. In decades past, every neighborhood, rich or poor, featured a butcher shop, whose front …

As families around the country prepare to hold big reunions over the Chuseok holidays next weekend, grumblings can already be heard here and there over how the …

The recent spread of tuberculosis at a postnatal care facility in Seoul is a reminder of the inherent danger of such facilities where, in a confined setting, …

North Korea’s recent announcement that it has restarted the Yongbyon nuclear complex and an earlier statement about its readiness to launch long-range …

For the first time in many years, the national budget for the fiscal 2016 contains no spending plan for any mega-scale infrastructure project. The Park …