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[Chun Sung-woo] A play never imagined before

Two years ago, the curtain rose on a new play. It was billed as a show never imagined before. The director said his play would depict a society without privileges and misconduct. He put up a sign th...

May 15, 2019
Columnists
[Keenan Fagan] Limited student opportunities to participate in the humanities

Professor Kim Seong-kon wrote another excellent editorial for this paper on May 8, in which he lamented that societal and student interest in the humanities was being “squeezed out by pop culture.” P...

May 15, 2019
Columnists
[Editorial] Not bureaucrats’ fault

Problems caused by misguided policies; Officials play it safe not to hold the sack

May 15, 2019
Editorial
[Kim Seong-kon] Why Borges became apolitical

Recently, I saw an interesting diagram on the internet about the left and the right. The drawing indicates that as you go further to the right, you will get bad outcomes such as libertarianism, corru...

May 14, 2019
Columnists
[Lee Jae-min] Zigzags, cut-ins and sudden dashes

Last spring, driving on Olympic Highway along the Han River, I saw a young man caught by police for riding a motorcycle on the highway. To be sure, riding a motorbike on expressways or automobile-onl...

May 14, 2019
Columnists
[Editorial] Little change

North Korea uses a revolving door for its nuclear problem

May 14, 2019
Editorial
[Andrew Sheng] Is democracy in retreat?

A fortnight ago, markets were going great guns, with the S&P500 hitting a record high, even as there was increasing evidence that global trade and many economies were slowing. Last week the markets t...

May 13, 2019
Columnists
[Hal Brands] Are Americans turning isolationist?

Public attitudes toward US foreign policy are a mess of ambiguities and seeming contradictions. Americans don’t particularly like Donald Trump’s policies, but they share some of his ambivalence about...

May 13, 2019
Columnists
[Editorial] Unnecessary cost

Wage cuts from shorter workweek push bus drivers to go on strike

May 13, 2019
Editorial
[David Ignatius] Saga of the Chinese mole reads like a thriller

Behind last week’s admission by a former CIA officer that he plotted to spy for China lies an astonishing tale of Beijing’s espionage against America -- and the vindication of other officers who were...

May 12, 2019
Columnists
[Noah Feldman] Trump is stuck with nationwide court injunctions

Vice President Mike Pence says that the Donald Trump administration will ask the US Supreme Court to bar federal district courts from issuing nationwide injunctions -- the court orders that make the ...

May 12, 2019
Columnists
[Editorial] Face realities

Moon’s answers in interview show incoherence, skewed perception of reality

May 12, 2019
Editorial
[David Ignatius] US needs a defense secretary now

At a time when America is facing a potential military confrontation with Iran, an escalating trade war with China and a showdown with North Korea, you’d think President Donald Trump would want a perm...

May 9, 2019
Columnists
[Elizabeth Drew] Trump is now above the law

Things have gotten ugly in Washington since the release last month of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election, and they’re about to get ug...

May 9, 2019
Columnists
[Editorial] Clean up the mess

Cheong Wa Dae ought to overhaul its petition website

May 9, 2019
Editorial

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