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The sixth round of talks between Korea and Japan on the issue of Japanese military sex slavery during World War II on Monday appears to have ended on a …

North Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk, whose testimony of life in a North Korean gulag before his escape in 2005 propelled the unprecedented effort by the …

Ideas in Korean politics have a short lifespan. Every five years, the election of a new president brings a flurry of proposals to address issues left to fester …

The Israel exception to Western governments’ human rights principles has been starkly on display in the reaction to the Palestinian Authority’s decision to …

“Wealth ― any income that is at least $100 more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.” ― H.L. Mencken On Fridays, I like to …

Recently, financial problems led a Korean man to strangle his wife and two children to death before attempting suicide. For some reason, he survived his …

President Park Geun-hye should not have been surprised by the result of an opinion poll released Friday, which showed her approval rating had plunged to the …

Switzerland’s abrupt decision to stop holding down the value of the franc may look like capitulation in the face of the much larger European Central Bank’s …

A day care worker was arrested Saturday on charges of child abuse after closed-circuit TV footage showing her slapping a 4-year-old girl sparked public outrage …

Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a few professional …