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Tue, October 24, 2017 | 12:56

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led his ruling Liberal Democrats to a landslide victory in the Lower House snap elections, and through a conservative coalition will no doubt attain a two-thirds majority to change its so-called pacifist Constitution, enabling his country to be more assertive militarily and diplomatically.

Editorial | 2017-10-23 17:21

The pet industry has been growing rapidly, with the number of people owning pets - mostly dogs and cats - reaching 10 million, accounting for one in every five Koreans. However, pet owners’ lack of etiquette and their untrained dogs are increasingly giving rise to neighborly feuding. The risk of dog bites is also on the rise, as illustrated by the case of a 53-year-old Seoul woman who died last week of blood poisoning after her neighbor’s French bulldog bit her in their apartment elevator.

Editorial | 2017-10-23 17:19

Pet management rules to be toughened

Trump should visit DMZ

Pros and cons are being discussed in Washington as to whether U.S. President Donald Trump should visit the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the forefront for the inter-Korean standoff since the 1950-53 Korean War, during his forthcoming visit to South Korea.

Editorial | 2017-10-22 16:13

Moon's shaky nuclear stance

President Moon Jae-in Sunday vowed to press ahead with his campaign pledge of weaning the nation off nuclear power.

Editorial | 2017-10-22 16:10

President's job plan

President Moon Jae-in’s five-year roadmap for job creation presented Wednesday by a presidential committee was not enough to convince the struggling young jobless people that the job market will significantly improve any time soon. The Presidential Committee on Job Creation unveiled a set of measures, including the creation of 810,000 public sector jobs. The committee also unveiled measures to help small and mid-sized businesses, improve the quality of jobs by reducing irregular workers and cut down on work hours.

Editorial | 2017-10-20 17:14

Fall of foreign investment

Foreign investors spent $10.58 billion to establish or acquire businesses in Korea last year, down 36 percent from $16.52 billion in 2015, the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) said Tuesday.

Editorial | 2017-10-20 17:12

Toward equitable taxation

Salaried workers are often called the “people carrying glass wallets” here because tax officials can look into their income statements transparently. The ongoing National Assembly inspection of government offices has reaffirmed this public perception. According to data submitted by the National Tax Service to Rep. Park Myung-jae of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, Korean workers’average wage rose less than 30 percent from 2008 to 2015 while their income tax payment jumped 60 percent. That is, taxes grew twice as fast as salaries during the seven-year period.

Editorial | 2017-10-19 16:14

LG's spirit of generosity

LG Group Chairman Koo Bon-moo’s donation this week to the family of an Army soldier who was recently killed in an accident is worthy of praise. The 22-year-old soldier was struck in the head by a stray bullet Sept. 26 near a shooting range while returning to his base in Cheorwon, Gangwon Province, with other soldiers and their commander after doing some construction work for a military installation. The accident enraged many people, particularly parents who have sons serving mandatory military service.

Editorial | 2017-10-19 16:12

U.S. President Donald Trump will make a speech at the National Assembly during his visit in early November. It would be a meaningful occasion to highlight the two allies’ shared history and common future goals. A larger-scale open-air speech would be more desirable but it is understandable that the proximity of Seoul, the most likely venue for it, to North Korea, would have made such a speech an act of derring-do. The deployment of two U.S. aircraft carriers plus other strategic assets near the Korean Peninsula during his Asian tour that will take him to Tokyo and Beijing, among other cities...

Editorial | 2017-10-18 15:28

SNU's falling competency

Since the national liberation from Japanese colonial rule (1910-45), the state-run Seoul National University (SNU) has been one of major cradles of outstanding individuals in the nation, who contributed to building the Republic of Korea into what it is now. Such a prestigious school, however, has been losing its competency, even slipping out of the list of top 10 Asian universities for the first time since 2009 when statistics were first made available by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a British company specializing in education and studying abroad. True, one can dispute the reliability of the s...

Editorial | 2017-10-18 15:26

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