Archive by category Opinion

[Editorial] Fund promotion

Financial service firms including first-tier banks have actively recommended that customers invest in equity funds. Bank counselors often claim that some …

[Editorial] Dismissal plans

The government has unilaterally publicized its new labor standards on giving enterprises the authority to lay off underperforming workers, despite a recent …

[Editorial] Preemptive measures

Foreign investors’ stock selling spree — while not surprising — is sending a cold wind as freezing as the weather through financial markets and ringing …

[Editorial] Street politics

The ongoing signature-collecting campaign for a petition to the National Assembly to legislate key pending bills demonstrates how pitiful Korean politics is at …

[Kenneth Roth] The key to reaching a Syrian accord

The Syrian peace talks that are scheduled to resume in Geneva on Jan. 25 will take place under a framework set out in Vienna in October. These principles, …

[David Ignatius] The chill from China’s slowdown
[David Ignatius] The chill from China’s slowdown

For the past 15 years, the mere mention of the word “China” has brought smiles to the faces of global business executives who gather annually for the World …

[Wishnu Wardhana] It’s time to change gears on ASEAN

Very recently more than 2,000 global financial and business leaders participating in the 9th Asian Financial Forum in Hong Kong on Jan. 18-19 concluded that a …

[Robert J. Shiller] Economists on refugee path
[Robert J. Shiller] Economists on refugee path

Today’s global refugee crisis recalls the period immediately after World War II. By one contemporary estimate, there were more than 40 million refugees in …

[Editorial] GDP coupling

Moody’s Investors Service has picked South Korea as one of the few countries whose economies are seriously susceptible to the economic slowdown in China. A …

[Editorial] Prosecutors’ irritation

An assessment of a group of prosecutors’ attitude when they interrogated criminal suspects at their offices has been made public for the first time. The …

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