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July 18, 2018 Culture

[Video] Sweetness overload at 2018 Seoul Dessert Fair

Thousands of people with a sweet tooth descended on the 2018 Seoul Dessert Fair to satisfy their cravings for all-things sweet on Saturday at the Setec Exhibition Hall. The theme for the two-day wee...

[Editorial] Stop shifting onus

Small business owners are strongly protesting next year’s minimum wage, which is to be raised by 10.9 percent, following a 16.4 percent hike this year. The board of the Korea Federation of Micro Ent...

July 18, 2018
Editorial
[Douglas Frantz] We’ve unleashed AI. Now we need a treaty to control it

Fifty years ago this month, in the midst of the Cold War, nations began signing an international treaty to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. Today, as artificial intelligence and machine learning r...

July 18, 2018
Columnists
[Aryeh Neir] Long human rights march

There has been a lot of bad news lately on the human rights front. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has resumed airstrikes on his people, killing opposition fighters and civilians alike. Poland’s rul...

July 18, 2018
Columnists
Temperatures in Korea near that of Southeast Asia

Temperatures across South Korea are currently close to that of Southeast Asian countries. On Tuesday, the beginning of the hottest days of summer, the temperature in the capital city of Seoul reache...

July 18, 2018
Social affairs
KH chief editorial writer elected ANN chairman

SEOUL – Mr. Chon Shi-yong, the chief editorial writer of The Korea Herald, has been elected as the new chairman of the Asia News Network (ANN), an alliance of 24 leading media organizations in 21 cou...

July 18, 2018
Social affairs
[Photo News] 5G pact

5G PACT -- South Korean Minister of Science and ICT You Young-min (third from left) poses with heads of three Korean telecommunication companies SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus at Marriott Executive Apar...

July 17, 2018
Technology
[Editorial] Cold War legacy

The latest developments surrounding a group of 13 North Koreans who came to the South in 2016 after working at a restaurant in China show that the legacy of the Cold War still persists on the Korean ...

July 17, 2018
Editorial
[David Fickling] BASF playing China matchmaker should worry US

If you want a look at how China is playing the economic diplomacy of its simmering trade war with the US, consider BASF SE. The world’s most profitable listed chemical company agreed on July 9 to s...

July 17, 2018
Columnists
[Michael Abramowitz and Sarah Repucci] Americans still want their government to support democracy abroad

A flood of commentaries concluding that Americans are more inward-looking, indifferent to international engagement and skeptical about the country’s obligation to influence change in repressive envir...

July 17, 2018
Columnists
[David Ignatius] Better relations with Russia a worthy goal. But at what price?

As the Helsinki summit approaches, President Trump appears to be on the verge of acquiescing to the belligerent strategy and behavior that Moscow has been pursuing for decades. The summit will be a ...

July 16, 2018
Columnists
[Scott Cowen] Is Trump an “effective leader”?

No matter how much chaos and disruption US President Donald Trump causes -- to trade, business, and even America’s core alliances -- his supporters regularly insist that Trump is a leader who gets th...

July 16, 2018
Columnists
[Editorial] No promoting NK

The Seoul Metropolitan Government provided leftist civic groups with a venue for a joint event where some participants echoed North Korea’s arguments and effectively advocated its nuclear weapons. Th...

July 16, 2018
Columnists
[Photo News] Toyota Scholarship

Kim Soung-soo (second row, third from right), chairman of Youth For Understanding Korea, a nonprofit student exchange organization, poses with seven Korean students selected for the 2018 Korea-Japan ...

July 16, 2018
Automode
[Editorial] Achilles’ heel

The Moon Jae-in administration has clear economic policy guidelines: income-led growth, innovation-pulled growth and fair economy. What is also clear is that the guidelines are not working. Recent e...

July 15, 2018
Editorial

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