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Before the verdict in President Yoon Suk Yeol's trial, is the Constitutional Court telling the opposition to stop abusing the power to impeach? When...
Before the verdict in President Yoon Suk Yeol's trial, is the Constitutional Court telling the opposition to stop abusing the power to impeach? When...
Nobody is really saying it out loud, but acting President Choi Sang-mok is proving to be, well, a good actor. Choi assumed his role as the nation’s...
Here’s a question I have been bouncing off people since President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached in December. Given how clear it is what he did wrong...
Here’s a question I have been bouncing off people since President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached in December. Given how clear it is what he did wrong...
In the subheading of a recent profile piece on main opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, The Economist labeled the man it said may be Korea’s next...
Ever since President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived imposition of martial law in early December, we have experienced one surprise after another....
In the wake of Tuesday night’s on-off declaration of martial law, as bewilderment turned to anger and the nation, it seemed, realized President...
A few months ago, as soon as our political leaders figured that Donald Trump might win the presidential election, they asked the United States if...
If the pollsters are right this time and the race is that tight, when Americans vote on Tuesday for their next president, the outcome may well...
Michael Breen When Han Kang won the Nobel Prize this month, people rushed to buy her works. Bookstores reported sales of over 1 million copies...
If the pollsters are right this time and the race is that tight, when Americans vote on Tuesday for their next president, the outcome may well...
Michael Breen When Han Kang won the Nobel Prize this month, people rushed to buy her works. Bookstores reported sales of over 1 million copies...
North Korea this month amended its constitution to formalize its abandonment of reunification. It followed up immediately with an announcement that...
When Im Jong-seok, a senior figure in the previous government, recently suggested that South Korea give up trying to take over North Korea and...
In a discussion recently about young people who don’t bother with relationships or careers, the only Korean man in our group made a point that got...
In a discussion recently about young people who don’t bother with relationships or careers, the only Korean man in our group made a point that got...
When the leader of the main opposition party in a stable, advanced democracy hints that the government is planning to introduce martial law, as...
The news earlier this month that the late Kim Dae-jung’s son had sold the family home in Seoul to the owner of a coffee franchise stirred up the...
When South Korea’s Olympic athletes were wrongly introduced as North Koreans at the opening of the Paris Olympics, it was a minor error for the...
Many years ago, I turned up at an office to find the manager I had come to see, going through a pile of papers. As we talked, he continued this...
Despite Korea’s healthy reputation for feisty politics, the current petition to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol exposes an underlying weakness in...