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Learning English the Nordic way

Busan Mayor Park Heong-joon's ambition to turn his city into a center of English-speaking Koreans is a laudable one, but it will also be difficult to achieve, at least in the short term. No one doubts that English is the lingua franca of the global economy and its widespread use will help attract foreign investment to Busan and elsewhere in Korea.

2022-09-27 14:51

Korean populism

The hottest new trend in American newsrooms is coverage of threats to democracy, which has been sparked by the presidency of Donald Trump and its aftermath. Is Korea's hard-won democracy also threatened by troubling social trends?

2022-09-05 16:12

Yoon's revenge

President Yoon Suk-yeol's efforts to restore the power of public prosecutors represents a key test for the future of Korea's democracy.

2022-08-22 16:20

Sleepwalking into war

Several years ago, Christopher Clark, a distinguished British historian, wrote a book called “The Sleepwalkers” about how Europe stumbled into World War I in the summer of 1914. He described how the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian heir, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which was the trigger event for the war, was initially ignored by most of the international community. Britain was distracted by a political crisis and France was focused on a celebrity murder trial, for example.

2022-08-08 17:00

Yoon's economic challenge

Is Korea heading for an economic and financial crisis? There are some disturbing signs. The KOSPI stock index has been among the worst-performing in the world this year. Inflation was up 5.4 percent in May, the highest since 2008, and could reach 6 percent in the next few months due to soaring energy prices. The value of the won against the U.S. dollar has fallen to its lowest level since September 2009.

2022-07-11 16:53

Cold War redux

North Korea stands to benefit from the war in Ukraine. Why? Because Russia may be more willing to ignore international sanctions and provide Pyongyang with what it needs: oil, grain and fertilizer among other crucial products.

2022-06-27 16:32

Korea's dead-end birthrate

Probably the biggest challenge that Korea will face over the coming decades will be its demographic crisis, with a super-low birthrate and rapidly aging population. Analysts warn that Korea's shrinking population could have serious implications for the economy and national security.

2022-06-13 16:16

Pyongyang's COVID gamble

North Korea has played the role of mini-me to China when it comes to COVID. Both countries have pursued a zero-COVID strategy over the past two years and both now are facing the disastrous results of that decision.

2022-05-30 16:15

Yoon's uncertain path

U.S. President Joe Biden's upcoming meeting with President Yoon Suk-yeol, scheduled for May 21, will test the hopes of the foreign policy establishment in Washington that Korea's new president is willing to align his country more closely with America.

2022-05-16 16:18

Going nuclear

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol's decision to revive Korea's nuclear power program is a pragmatic one and reverses what some argue was an unrealistic policy by the Moon Jae-in administration to phase out nuclear energy.

2022-04-18 16:15

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