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The National Assembly’s Environment and Labor Committee has started deliberations on the five labor reform bills. For the deliberations to be productive, …

South and North Korea will hold a working-level meeting on Nov. 26 to prepare for high-level government talks. The two sides need to sit at the negotiating …

Terrorist attacks on civilians, whether the downing over Sinai of a Russian aircraft killing 224 civilian passengers, the horrific Paris massacre claiming 129 …

The next president of the United States will confront a virulent jihadist threat, mounting effects of climate change and an economy becoming ever more unequal. …

The government has taken a small, but meaningful step to rein in substandard Internet media, which have been blamed for turning Korean cyberspace into a hotbed …

It is not unusual for the National Assembly to drag its feet on key bills. Lawmakers do not even have qualms about breaching the legal deadline for approving …

French President Francois Hollande has announced that his country is at war with the Islamic State, and the United States is surely part of that conflict, too. …

By all indicators, Korea is not a happy society. Korea had the highest suicide rate among member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and …

The news that police are questioning an Indonesian national in Korea about his ties with a terrorist group linked to al-Qaida brought home the message that the …

On an April afternoon this year, I found myself seated next to a couple from the Middle East — the wife in hijab and the husband sporting a heavy beard — …