The Korea Herald

[Ana Palacio] Organic multilateralism needed in a G-Zero world

Jun 24, 2020

This year’s gathering of world leaders for the United Nations General Assembly in New York has been called off. The news of the cancellation -- the first in the UN’s 75-year history -- came a week af...
[Kim Seong-kon] On the 70th anniversary of the Korean War

Jun 24, 2020

On June 25, 2020, Korea commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Korea War. It means that the babies who were born in 1950 when the war broke out are now 70 years old. It is sad to think that those w...
[Ferdinando Giugliano] Europe’s frugal four are right about two things

Jun 24, 2020

The European Commission’s plan for a 750 billion-euro ($842 billion) fund to deal with the economic consequences of the pandemic is a quantum leap in Europe’s crisis response. Yet, for all the good i...
[Ivo Daalder] Trump’s transactional approach is eroding global alliances

Jun 23, 2020

The United States has for decades deployed large numbers of its military forces overseas. Today, some 170,000 troops are stationed in more than 150 countries. But the vast majority of them are based ...
[Adam Minter] On COVID and protests, some good news

Jun 23, 2020

On Tuesday morning, cars and pedestrians lined up for free COVID-19 tests in south Minneapolis, six blocks from where George Floyd was killed last month. As protests flared after his death, Minnesota...
[David Fickling] The most troubling China-India conflict is economic

Jun 22, 2020

What’s worse than two populous, nuclear-armed countries killing each other’s soldiers? Two populous, nuclear-armed countries letting their longer-term relationship wither. Fighting along the Chinese...
[Andreas Kluth] Nuclear arms race worse than last one

Jun 22, 2020

As long as the pandemic rages, the world’s leaders are understandably preoccupied with the threat of disease. But there are other dangers to humanity that demand attention. One of the most frightenin...
[Trudy Rubin] Trump’s support for West Bank seizure disastrous

Jun 19, 2020

Under cover of COVID-19 and the US convulsion over racism, the White House is promoting a policy that spells disaster for Israel. Too few are paying attention. As part of President Donald Trump’s “p...
[Robert J. Fouser] Challenges for cities after pandemic

Jun 19, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic gripped New York City in March, articles discussing the future of cities came into vogue. Most articles predicted that the pandemic would change cities “forever” and that lar...
[Kim Myong-sik] Balloons expose North’s leadership in jitters

Jun 18, 2020

North Korea’s demolition of the South-North Liaison Office building in the border town of Kaesong this week was outrageous, but it also showed Pyongyang’s limitations in its actions against Seoul in ...
[Jeffrey Frankel] What’s in a recession?

Jun 18, 2020

On June 8, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research declared that economic activity in the United States had peaked in February 2020, formally marking the start...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Case study for second-wave lockdowns

Jun 17, 2020

Mexico, India and Pakistan are among the countries that have hit record numbers of new coronavirus cases in recent days, as drastic regulations that kept streets empty and people apart are lifted. It...
[Yoon Seok-jun] Post-pandemic challenges face Korea from health policy standpoint

Jun 17, 2020

The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak is causing Koreans to reflect on their way of life. Additionally, foreigners who are interested in the current status of Korea seek to understand how they are overcoming...
[Kim Seong-kon] Suddenly this summer

Jun 17, 2020

The above title is a riff and parody on Tennessee Williams’ famous play, “Suddenly Last Summer.” In this Southern Gothic play, Violet’s son, Sebastian, had died in Europe the previous summer under du...
[Peter Singer] Is age discrimination acceptable?

Jun 16, 2020

Should we value all human lives equally? This question arose in an acute form in March, when the novel coronavirus overwhelmed Italy’s health care system. Envisaging a situation in which there would...