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![[Chon Shi-yong] Meeting with two Japanese men](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/20150430001603_01.jpg "[Chon Shi-yong] Meeting with two Japanese men")
As the plane was ascending, I began thinking about meeting two Japanese men in Tokyo ―- a friend of mine of more than 20 years and Chief Cabinet Secretary …
![[Zakir Hussain] Terror’s evolving threat to Singapore](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/20150430001602_01.jpg "[Zakir Hussain] Terror’s evolving threat to Singapore")
A few weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States, two al-Qaida operatives arrived separately in Singapore to start scouting for …
A former American ambassador to Seoul said this week that ties with South Korea and Japan were both very important for the U.S., dismissing views that …
Sung Woan-jong, a construction company owner who died in an apparent suicide early this month, is posthumously rocking the nation with a list of powerful …
![[Kim Ji-hyun] Mastering the art of ‘mildang’](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/20150429001655_01.jpg "[Kim Ji-hyun] Mastering the art of ‘mildang’")
I have never quite gotten the hang of negotiating. Either I give up too much, or refuse to budge at all, mostly because I don’t see the point. It’s not a …
![[Kim Myong-sik] Bizarre consequences of pursuing the wrong things](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/20150429001654_01.jpg "[Kim Myong-sik] Bizarre consequences of pursuing the wrong things")
Over the passage of time, my hair has thinned, but I make it a rule to go to Munhwa Barber’s Shop, located in an alley behind the Jogye Buddhist Temple, once …
Politicians tend to ignore common sense when they pursue their own partisan interests. This attitude gets more serious when they quarrel over highly sensitive …
It seems that the two Koreas ― especially the South ― are trying to break the years-long impasse in their bilateral relations. The first sign of a possible …
![[Amrit Singh] Did drone strikes lose Yemen?](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/20150428001713_01.jpg "[Amrit Singh] Did drone strikes lose Yemen?")
Yemen’s recent descent into crisis has prompted debate about whether U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration erred in calling its counterterrorism …
![[Kim Seong-kon] The ship of fools and the country of fools](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/20150428001712_01.jpg "[Kim Seong-kon] The ship of fools and the country of fools")
The ship of fools is an allegory ascribed to Plato that describes a captainless ship drifting at sea, carrying deranged and disoriented passengers entirely …