(Published : Dec 31, 2019 – 16:40) In my last column I looked back on the 2010s in South Korea; this time I look forward…
(Published : Dec 31, 2019 – 16:40) In my last column I looked back on the 2010s in South Korea; this time I look forward…
(Published : Dec 17, 2019 – 17:12) In a couple of weeks, we will enter the third decade of the 21st century. For South Korea,…
(Published : May 21, 2019 – 17:05) When I visited South Korea in the spring of 2018, everybody was talking about the breakthrough with North…
(Published : Apr 9, 2019 – 17:03) A few weeks ago, somebody asked me the secret to South Korea’s success. Not being an economist, I…
(Published : Feb 12, 2019 – 17:19) Last week, a BBC article from 2017 stating that life expectancy in South Korea would become the longest…
(Published : Dec 4, 2018 – 17:24) Labor strife in South Korea is back in the news, as the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions launched…
(Published : Jul 17, 2018 – 16:58) The recent announcement that the government plans to raise the minimum wage by 11 percent to 8,350 won…
(Published : Nov 21, 2017 – 17:43) Most Koreans over the age of 40 remember November 1997 very well. Concern over rising corporate debt in…
(Published : Aug 30, 2016 – 16:18) On Aug. 25, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced a series of measures aimed at raising South…
(Published : Jan 6, 2015 – 20:57) Korea struggled in 2014 to come to terms with the immense loss of life in the Sewol ferry…