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[Editorial] Influence peddling

The snowballing allegations of influence peddling by Park Bum-hoon, senior presidential secretary for education from 2011 to 2013 during the Lee Myung-bak …

[Mohamed A. El-Erian] Rethinking emerging markets
[Mohamed A. El-Erian] Rethinking emerging markets

The concept of an “emerging-markets asset class” may no longer be a sufficiently useful and accurate catch-all classification for investors. The …

[Clive Crook] How criminals created modern capitalism
[Clive Crook] How criminals created modern capitalism

Whenever buyers and sellers get together, opportunities to fleece the other guy arise. The history of markets is, in part, the history of lying, cheating and …

[Editorial] Shrinking exports

Korea’s exports dropped 4.2 percent from a year earlier in March, following the 0.7 percent and 3.4 percent losses in January and February, respectively, …

[Editorial] Brazen move

A parliamentary special committee on political reform held its first meeting last week only to fuel public doubt about whether the outcome of its work will …

[William Pesek] Creative destruction in China
[William Pesek] Creative destruction in China

Has China’s Joseph Schumpeter moment arrived? China has suggested its decision to roll out deposit insurance for bank accounts beginning on May 1 will usher …

[Ram Garikipati] E-commerce opportunities surging in Korea
[Ram Garikipati] E-commerce opportunities surging in Korea

E-commerce is rapidly transforming the way in which enterprises are interacting with each other, as well as with consumers, and growing rapidly across the …

[Editorial] Sewol compensation

The government’s announcement of compensation for victims of the Sewol ferry disaster last April that claimed the lives more than 300 people has earned the …

[Editorial] Iran breakthrough

Following two years of negotiations, Iran has signed a nuclear agreement with the U.S. and five other countries Thursday that prevents the country’s nuclear …

[Adam Minter] Budget airlines high stress for pilots
[Adam Minter] Budget airlines high stress for pilots

Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot who last week steered a Germanwings flight into a mountainside, had a history of depression so debilitating that he left his pilot …

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