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Blockade fuels black market of oil products

If anything, the acute shortage of essential supplies due to the Indian blockade has created a vibrant black market of petroleum products and other essentials …

Refocus on presidential candidates, not side dishes

The upcoming presidential election in January 2016 may be marked down in history as the dullest elections to date. The opposition Democratic Progressive Party …

Raise safety standards to avoid aviation disasters

The combination of a mechanical fault and pilot miscommunication that lay behind the crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 last December represents the worst of two …

Forging a balanced response to terrorism

It now appears, as some had predicted from the start, that the husband and wife who carried out the brutal massacre in San Bernardino were motivated at least …

[Editorial] Prepare for rate hikes

Korea’s liberal party has lost to its conservative counterpart in most elections over the past few years. It allowed the conservative party to score landside …

[Kim Myong-sik] Saving is grave sin in budget execution
[Kim Myong-sik] Saving is grave sin in budget execution

The 2016 budget has been fixed at 386,399,700,000,000 won. We, the people, pay taxes of various titles to fill the state coffers and keep the government …

[Shin Yong-bae] In search of a warmer society 
[Shin Yong-bae] In search of a warmer society 

The season for giving has come. A “Thermometer of Love,” a giant mock thermometer board showing how much people have donated to charity, stands at the …

[Editorial] Room for compromise

Upon her return last weekend from a visit to Europe, President Park Geun-hye used her bully pulpit to point out to the public the urgency of enacting bills on …

[Editorial] Paradox of cheap oil

In Korea, low oil prices have long been considered a blessing, as the country has to import crude oil to meet more than one-third of its energy demands. Korea …

So what if tommy guns are popular?

When a sharply divided Supreme Court created an individual right to bear arms seven years ago, it also made clear that the right would remain subject to …

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