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[Carl P. Leubsdorf] Clinton needs to avoid blunders

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton appears to be making progress toward regaining control of her campaign after three months in which questions about the …

[Jawed Naqvi] Verbal incontinence, foreign policy
[Jawed Naqvi] Verbal incontinence, foreign policy

A country that was shouting “death to America” in its daily prayers for decades is shaking hands with its former foes. A hemisphere removed from Iran, the …

[Chon Shi-yong] Ridding NIS of shameful legacy
[Chon Shi-yong] Ridding NIS of shameful legacy

In the late 1970s, it was not hard to locate intelligence agents and police officers in plain clothes on campus. Hardly disturbed, they hung around the campus …

[Editorial] Internship guideline

Compounding the already dire problem of youth unemployment in Korea is the exploitation of interns. A Ministry of Employment and Labor survey of 151 randomly …

[Editorial] Mitsubishi’s selective apology

Japan’s Mitsubishi Materials Corp., after its unprecedented move of apologizing to U.S. prisoners of war who were used as slave labor during World War II, …

[Editorial] Rural life

The number of urban households moving to rural areas increased by a whopping 36 times over the past decade to 44,692 last year, according to government data. …

[Editorial] Devotion to work

Asked by a reporter last week whether she would run in next April’s parliamentary election, Gender Equality and Family Minister Kim Hee-jung replied to the …

[Yang Sung-jin] Are you still watching TV?
[Yang Sung-jin] Are you still watching TV?

It is now pretty common in Seoul to see couples sitting in Starbucks, tapping away on their own smartphones. They talk with each other, yet their eyes are …

[Kim Myong-sik] Public angered by bad politics during MERS crisis
[Kim Myong-sik] Public angered by bad politics during MERS crisis

The days are growing hotter while weathermen forecast the approach of multiple typhoons of strange names coming from the western Pacific. But, thank God, the …

[Editorial] In rough seas

The shipbuilding industry, once a major source of pride for Korea Inc., is sailing through rough waters. While the sluggish global economy is primarily to …

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