What��s wrong with youth employment?
In this era of high youth unemployment, there are many young unemployed graduates fruitlessly expanding resources in search of jobs.

Turning point for Korea��s financial industry
Things have been looking up for the Korean economy. On Aug. 27, Moody��s upgraded Korea��s sovereign credit rating to Aa3. Soon after, Fitch Rating ..

The beginning of the end
The eurozone crisis has entered a new phase, which will hopefully be the beginning of the end in the long saga of policy interventions to shore up t..

Dangers of slow growth weighs on Korea Inc.
It��s a tough time to be a policymaker in Seoul and life may be about to get more difficult for consumers too. Since the European debt crisis, slugg..

Growth not likely to pick up in 2013
International institutions and the consensus of forecasters expect an upswing in growth between 2012 and 2013. The International Monetary Fund, for ..

Policies on chaebol
Controversies over big business reform have become an economic hot potato recently all over the country. Ever since the issue of a fair society was ..

Steve Jobs vs. King Sejong
With the first anniversary of Steve Jobs��s death on Sept. 5, his leadership style gains recognition once again.

2012: Write-off year for China
Sacrificing growth this year for larger objectives sets the stage for incoming political leaders to ease policies in 2013. Strong growth will make t..

Northeast Asian economic community
Since the eruption of the Asian financial crisis in 1997/98, many political leaders and scholars in East Asia have proposed a variety of concepts fo..

Chaebol reform and economic democracy
So-called ��economic democracy�� is a political hot potato these days everywhere in the country. For good or bad, everyone but chaebol is trying to ..