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![[Robert J. Fouser] Golden jubilee of ties with Japan](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/20150623001657_01.jpg "[Robert J. Fouser] Golden jubilee of ties with Japan")
June 22, 2015, marked the 50th anniversary of the Treaty on Basic Relations between South Korea and Japan that established formal diplomatic relations between …
JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock disagree about China’s stock bubble. The former says last week’s 13 percent share plunge is a reason to buy; the latter sees …
Pity the Swiss National Bank. At the central bank’s policy meeting last week, it acknowledged that the exchange rate it manages is overvalued, which means it …
“The fact that you are anti-Semitic, or racist, doesn’t preclude you from being interested in survival,” President Barack Obama said last month in an …
![[Kim Seong-kon] Five things Korea needs to change in its society](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/20150623001656_01.jpg "[Kim Seong-kon] Five things Korea needs to change in its society")
Despite a number of admirable traits, Korea will have to change a few things in its society if it is to emerge as a truly globalized country. First, we need to …
Korea and a group of six Central American countries last week declared the launch of negotiations on a free trade agreement. The declaration came at the end of …
The United Nations is set to open its field office in Seoul on Tuesday to deal with the human rights situation in North Korea. The move risks aggravating …
When I left South Carolina for Princeton, my head full of Faulkner novels, I assumed that racial history still defined the divide between north and south. My …
Forty years ago, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe concluded with the signing of the Helsinki Final Act, a historic triumph of cooperation …
Wang Jianlin, chairman of Dalian Wanda Group and China’s richest man, has just one child, 27-year-old Wang Sicong. That would seem to make the question of …