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    <title><![CDATA[[Editorial] Change needed]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10629049</link>  
    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Swiss voters on Sunday decisively rejected a proposition that would have introduced a high inheritance and gift tax on the super-rich. The youth wing of the Social Democrats put forward the &quot;Initiative for the Future&quot; to impose a 50 percent inheritance and gift tax on estates valued over 50 million Swiss francs ($62.1 million). The initiative proposed using the tax revenue to fund climate-related policies and address wealth inequality. But the initiative was voted down by 78.3 percent of the ele]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Wang Son-taek] A year after an insurrection]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:19:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Exactly a year ago, South Korea confronted a constitutional disaster. A sitting president attempted a self-coup that could have resulted in violent confrontation or authoritarian consolidation. Instead, South Korea overcame the crisis with extraordinary efficiency and civic maturity. Within 12 months, the country restored constitutional governance, elected a new president and stabilized national systems without falling into either bloodshed or total chaos. Such an achievement deserves recognitio]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Boram Jang] A 6-hour lesson from Korea]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10629028</link>  
    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Like every schoolchild in South Korea, I was taught about the days in May 1980 when our country’s soldiers killed civilians in the Gwangju Democratic Uprising. At least 166 protesters — mostly students — were shot dead, and at the time there were no consequences for those responsible. One year ago — on Dec. 3 last year, when South Korea’s then-President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law and deployed troops to the National Assembly — that lesson helped save the country&apos;s constitutional order. In]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Matt K. Lewis] Reasons Republicans bucking Trump]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10628142</link>  
    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[US President Donald Trump’s tight grip on the Republican Party, long assumed to be an inevitable feature of American life like gravity or the McRib’s seasonal return, has started to loosen. Republicans are now openly defying him. The man who once ruled the party like a casino boss can’t even strong-arm Indiana Republicans into gerrymandering themselves properly. This sort of resistance didn’t emerge overnight. It fermented like prison wine or bad ideas in a faculty lounge. First came the Iran bo]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Kim Seong-kon] Korea as a symbol of our contemporary world]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10628138</link>  
    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Does today’s Korea capture the essence of the current situation and problems that the world confronts? If so, could we say that Korea is an emblem of our times? Perceiving the similarities between Korea’s predicament and that of other countries, Indian writer Amitav Ghosh answered: “yes.” In his acceptance speech for the 2025 Park Kyongni Prize, Ghosh said, “The Korean Peninsula stands as a powerful symbol of our contemporary moment. In many ways, the great themes of your history — of resilience]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Editorial] Unlearned lessons]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10628131</link>  
    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[One year after the Dec. 3 martial law crisis upended Korea’s constitutional order, the country confronts an uncomfortable truth: The institutions that resisted a president’s unlawful deployment of troops proved sturdier than many feared, yet the political class that presided over the collapse has learned almost nothing from it. The broad facts appear largely settled. Courts now handle the trials of former President Yoon Suk Yeol and senior security officials. Major elements of the alleged chain ]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Jeffrey Frankel] What will the US debt reckoning look like?]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10627348</link>  
    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:24:01 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[In the United States, public debt now stands at 99 percent of GDP. The Congressional Budget Office expects it to reach 107 percent of GDP by 2029 — surpassing the record set at the end of World War II — and to continue rising indefinitely. But until when? As Herbert Stein, who served as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Richard Nixon, famously quipped, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” But what will that “stop” look like? A country can move off an unsusta]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Allison Schrager] AI likely to cause labor shortage.]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10627334</link>  
    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:18:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[There are two big worries when it comes to the rapid advances in artificial intelligence. The first is that it will lead to robot overlords that will eradicate humanity. The second is that AI will eliminate many jobs. The more likely scenario is that it creates a labor shortage, or at least a dearth of skilled workers who can make the most of the new technology. I recently spoke to the head of the informatics program at a large university and asked her about training undergraduates for this futu]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Editorial] Lax security]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10627306</link>  
    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:30:03 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The massive data breach at Coupang, South Korea&apos;s e-commerce giant — now confirmed to have exposed personal data for about 33.7 million customer accounts — is more than just a technical glitch. It is a serious failure of corporate stewardship and a fundamental breach of consumer trust — a betrayal of numerous users who entrusted their personal information to a private company, expecting it to guard that data responsibly. That the leak went undetected for five months after unauthorized access rep]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Man Ki Kim] Korea at a crossroads: Innovation, demographics and the global diaspora]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10626536</link>  
    <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[In just six decades, Korea has risen from the devastation of war to become a global leader in industry, technology and culture. Today, the nation faces a new set of challenges: the fastest population decline in the OECD, widening income inequality, and youth unemployment, all of which threaten social cohesion. Yet, Korea’s 7.32 million-strong diaspora offers a powerful resource. Their creativity, professional networks and global influence can help drive innovation, strengthen soft power and ensu]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Editorial] Monetary policy limits]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10626530</link>  
    <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The quietest moment in monetary policy often reveals the loudest warning. The Bank of Korea’s decision on Nov. 27 to keep the policy rate at 2.5 percent for the fourth consecutive meeting looked, at first glance, like another routine attempt to buy time. In reality, the central bank signaled the limits of what monetary policy alone can now accomplish. A currency hovering around the 1,470 won level against the US dollar, a housing market that refuses to cool, and an uneven recovery built on a nar]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Allison Schrager] US middle class shrinking]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10626527</link>  
    <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:36:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The good news is that Americans have never been richer. The bad news is that most of them don’t feel like it. There has been tremendous growth in income and wealth in the US in the last half century, even for poorer and middle-class households. But because of the nature of that growth, as well as the changing structure of the national economy, a lot of the people who have benefited also believe that the economy isn’t working for them. It is true the middle class is shrinking. In the 1960s the in]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Robert J. Fouser] Korean learning boom falters]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10625256</link>  
    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The past twenty years have seen a boom in people learning Korean. Hallyu and K-pop have put South Korean pop culture on the map, particularly in the evolving global Generation Z culture. Other factors, many of which have received little attention, have contributed to the boom. The first, and perhaps most important, is the expanding interaction with South Korea, which deepens contact with Koreans and inspires people to learn the language. Interaction with Koreans has expanded, both in South Korea]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Editorial] Gemini shock]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10625227</link>  
    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The global race in artificial intelligence has largely centered on the combination of OpenAI’s algorithms and Nvidia’s silicon. With the unveiling of &quot;Gemini 3.0&quot; last week, however, Google upended the industry’s strategic chessboard. By demonstrating that state-of-the-art models can outperform incumbents using proprietary Ironwood tensor processing units rather than Nvidia’s flagship chips, Google has signaled the end of a unipolar AI order. For South Korea, standing at the periphery of this te]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Aaron Brown] What if gambling used the ‘free price effect’?]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10624350</link>  
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The bedrock life principle, the house always wins, derives from the mathematical advantage casinos build into their games. But what if that wasn’t the price of admittance? On an American roulette wheel, a bet on the number 13 pays off at 35:1. If there were 36 slots on the wheel, both the house and the bettor would break even in the long run, but there are 38 slots (zero, double-zero and the numbers 1 to 36). The house doesn’t win every spin — 13 does come up — but in the long run bettors lose $]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Editorial] Negotiation chaos]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10624345</link>  
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The Ministry of Employment and Labor on Monday disclosed an amendment to the enforcement ordinances of the &quot;Yellow Envelope&quot; law that refer to revised Articles 2 and 3 of the Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act. The amended ordinances will be open until Jan. 5 for public review and opinion collection. The Yellow Envelope bill stirred strong backlash from businesses, but the pro-labor ruling party pushed it through in August with its significant parliamentary majority. The law is sched]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Vitit Muntarbhorn] Business&apos; role in child protection]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10624338</link>  
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[A key element of child protection is to amplify the participation of the business sector as a partner in the process. This is particularly challenging regarding the expanding mass of child sexual exploitation and abuse materials in a world of digitalization, algorithms and Artificial Intelligence. A recent report backed by the UN concerning the impact of AI on child sexual exploitation notes that Cyber Tipline reports on CSAM received some 36 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitatio]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Mark Gongloff] Who believes in climate change?]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10623496</link>  
    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[There’s an old climate joke that goes, “You may not believe in climate change, but your insurance company does.” If you’re in the market for new environmental humor — and really, who isn’t? — you can now update this to say, “You may not believe in climate change, but the stock market does.” For much of this year, the S&P Global Clean Energy Index has outpaced the S&P 500 Index, the Nasdaq 100 Index and the MSCI World Index, Bloomberg News noted recently as part of a report about Jefferies analys]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Kim Seong-kon] &apos;Ever Night&apos;: Standing between light and darkness]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10623489</link>  
    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[History teaches us valuable lessons. When we watch historical movies and dramas, we can look back upon the past, realize what went wrong at that time, and learn not to repeat the same mistakes our ancestors made. In that sense, history reflects the present and illuminates the right path to the future. The 2018 Chinese television series “Ever Night” enables us to perceive the nature of problems we are now facing by reference to historical events. Set in the Tang Dynasty, this award-winning drama ]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Editorial] Crisis in care]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10623438</link>  
    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The image is grim but familiar: an ambulance idling outside a Busan hospital, its siren silent, its crew on the phone. Inside lies a teenager in seizures, a patient the system classifies as pediatric and refuses to treat. What happened on Oct. 20 was not an aberration. It was the predictable outcome of a structure long signaling distress. Though the doctors’ strike has ended and trainees have returned, the &quot;emergency room loop&quot; in which crews call up hospital after hospital seeking an open door ]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Editorial] Populist choice]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:30:02 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The government said Friday that it plans to reopen bidding within this year for a project to build a new international airport on the Busan island of Gadeokdo. The decision to resume bidding was made after the government extended its assessed construction period from 84 months to 106 months. Bidding had failed four times before a consortium led by Hyundai E&C was selected as a preferred bidder in October last year. But in May, Hyundai E&C demanded the government increase the construction period ]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Lee Jae-min] US tariff end risks package deals]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:30:01 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The United States Supreme Court seems to be on a fast track for its review and deliberation of the fentanyl and &quot;reciprocal&quot; tariff measures of the Donald Trump administration. During oral arguments on Nov. 5, some of the justices raised critical questions expressing skepticism about the legality of the tariffs. The core question is whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 gives the president the authority to impose such sweeping tariffs. Of course, there is no telling wha]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Lim Woong] Finding light in unkind digital world]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[It is not difficult to see that online platforms have become the primary spaces where our youth gather, talk, argue, chase trends and figure out how to live with others. For students, social media functions almost like a parallel reality they cannot ignore. We often say that libraries shape their habits of mind, yet it is social media where their sense of right and wrong is tested, where they learn, sometimes painfully, to read situations, protect themselves and form a sense of community and bel]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Ana Palacio] Restoring Europe&apos;s social contracts]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The European Parliament Committee on Constitutional Affairs recently held a high-level symposium on the “Quest for the Rule of Law.” Legal scholars, academics and practitioners gathered for an in-depth dialogue on the principle’s meaning and implementation within the European Union. But the challenge ahead is more fundamental:The rule of law is backsliding in Europe, jeopardizing democracy itself. Since World War II, liberal democracies have built and sustained their social contracts on three mu]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Editorial] Dangerous drift]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10621791</link>  
    <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The most striking image of Northeast Asia’s current instability is not a fleet of warships, but a single remark in a Japanese parliamentary chamber. On Nov. 7, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi warned that a Chinese move against Taiwan could create a situation that “threatened the survival” of Japan. Her phrasing, drawn from Japan’s 2015 security legislation, immediately escalated the political temperature. Beijing responded swiftly. Chinese officials demanded a full retraction and issued statements]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Yoo Choon-sik] AI talent push meets flip-flop doubt]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The recently announced “AI Talent Development Plans for All&quot; is a truly sweeping initiative, broad enough to underscore the South Korean government’s drive to strengthen artificial intelligence capabilities nationwide. It is a vision that sees AI not merely as a technology, but as a universal competency that must be nurtured from kindergarten classrooms to the highest levels of postgraduate research. The initiative exemplifies South Korea&apos;s ambition to chart a grand national course, seeking to t]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Editorial] Korea’s dollar drain]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10620501</link>  
    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The Korean won’s persistent decline against the US dollar has moved beyond ordinary volatility and now signals a deeper imbalance that Seoul’s policymakers can no longer overlook. With the won trading persistently near the 1,470 won mark, markets now openly discuss 1,500 as plausible. What is striking is that this does not reflect a shortage of dollars from trade. It reflects a structural reshaping of the foreign exchange equilibrium that threatens to erode hard-won stability, trigger cost-push ]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Lee Byung-jong] Korea’s unfit ambassadors]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10620482</link>  
    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[For South Korea’s newly elected presidents, ambassadorship has long been an ideal gift to bestow on friends and loyalists. Unlike other top government posts, ambassadorial positions do not require tough parliamentary confirmation hearings or extensive public scrutiny. This made them convenient rewards in the past, when military dictators handed out ambassadorships to fellow generals who supported their coups or autocracies. In more recent years, presidents have given these posts to politicians a]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Wang Son-taek] Common sense between 55 and 101]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10619582</link>  
    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The controversy over urban development near Jongmyo Shrine has become one of the most troubling cultural debates in Korea today. The damage is affecting Korea’s international reputation at a moment when the world is paying close attention to our cultural heritage. After the successful APEC Summit in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, where Korea presented itself as a nation that cherishes traditional culture, such a sudden regression in Seoul’s approach to heritage conservation is both bafflin]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Arthur Herman] America’s coming boom]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10619571</link>  
    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Where is America going? It depends on who you listen to. Some pundits see its economic outlook as gloomy, if not disastrous. They point out that the affordability issue, i.e. that Americans sense they are paying more for less, isn’t going away; the election of a socialist as mayor of New York City who campaigned precisely on that issue, indicates the opposite. And although the recent government shutdown has ended, President Trump’s economics chief Kevin Hassett predicts it will mean it cuts four]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Editorial] Signals of crisis]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10619540</link>  
    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[South Korean companies forecast that Korea could be overtaken by China across all of its top 10 export industries within the next five years, according to a survey of domestic firms conducted by the Federation of Korean Industries. Korea has already been overtaken by China in half of its top 10 export sectors — steel, general machinery, secondary batteries, displays and automobiles and auto parts — and is expected to fall behind China in semiconductors, electrical and electronics, shipbuilding, ]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Kim Seong-kon] Maximize AI, while not being controlled by it]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10618664</link>  
    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Suddenly, artificial intelligence has become the subject of the moment. Every day, newspaper articles announce that the era of AI has come and that our future will depend on the new technology. Indeed, AI seems to already be ubiquitous in every nook and cranny of our society. It is already the case that AI operates on our smartphones, computers and cars. Soon, we will be living in the era of AI. In fact, AI has already become integrated into our daily lives as an indispensable tool and helpful p]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Rosa Lowinger] A lasting scar of Trump’s America]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10618661</link>  
    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Great government houses are never still. They grow, age and change with their nations, each alteration leaving a trace of the ideals and anxieties of its time. Architecture is the archive that never stops recording. To tear down a part of it is to edit the story of who Americans are as a nation. The recent demolition of the White House’s East Wing -- the most consequential alteration to that building in more than a century -- feels so profound, and so chilling precisely because it makes visible,]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Editorial] Grounded by haste]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10618649</link>  
    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[River cities like to say that water reveals more than it hides. Seoul’s latest commuter experiment has learned this in the most public way. A vessel on the Hangang Bus service, promoted as a sleek escape from congested roads, hit a sand bar near Jamsil on Saturday, leaving 82 passengers stranded for nearly an hour. It was the second suspension of the service in as many months, a reminder that civic ambition without preparation quickly runs aground. Introduced in September as one of Mayor Oh Se-h]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Editorial] Corporate opportunity]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10617825</link>  
    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[President Lee Jae Myung on Sunday met with leaders of key conglomerates — Samsung Electronics, SK, Hyundai Motor, LG, HD Hyundai, Celtrion and Hanwha — and asked them to expand their domestic investment and employment. The meeting was held to discuss follow-up measures after the release of a joint fact sheet on bilateral trade and security agreements with the United States. Lee asked them to respond actively to the anticipated industrial hollowing out due to their massive investment in the US un]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Christian Catalini] The trillion-dollar battle for money&apos;s operating system]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10617819</link>  
    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:20:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The next great platform war has begun. It is over the fundamental rails of the global economy: money itself. As I argued in a recent talk on this topic, at stake is not just who processes payments, but who will set the rules for the future of commerce. Two starkly different models are emerging. The first, the &quot;CorpChain,&quot; is a proprietary, closed-walled garden. This isn&apos;t a theoretical debate, it&apos;s a land grab happening in real-time. Mastercard is in advanced talks to acquire stablecoin infrastr]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Grace Kao] The long and winding road to becoming a professor]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10617818</link>  
    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:25:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday and the end of the fall semester in the US, it is also a time of anxiety for Ph.D. students on the academic job market. Many more people with Ph.D.s aspire to be professors than there are positions. The road to becoming a professor is arduous, even for students at Ivy League institutions like the University of Pennsylvania, where I taught for 20 years, and at Yale University, where I’ve taught for eight years. All of us with tenure-track or tenured positio]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[Germany cancels auction of Holocaust artifacts after backlash]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10617534</link>  
    <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:46:50 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[BERLIN (AP) -- Poland‘s foreign minister said Sunday that an &quot;offensive&quot; auction of Holocaust artifacts has been canceled in Germany, relaying information from his German counterpart, following complaints from Holocaust survivors. Radoslaw Sikorski made the comments on the X platform, saying he and German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul &quot;agreed that such a scandal must be prevented.&quot; The top Polish diplomat thanked Wadephul for the information that the auction was canceled. Earlier, a Holocaust]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Lee Kyong-hee] Jongmyo: The symbolism of its sacred space]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10616991</link>  
    <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 05:30:03 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Winter 1997. During those bewildering months, as South Korea sought an emergency bailout from the International Monetary Fund amid the Asian financial crisis, I wrote a book about the nation’s first UNESCO World Heritage sites. They included Bulguksa Temple and Seokguram Grotto, the Tripitaka Koreana and its storage halls at Haeinsa Temple, Hwaseong Fortress, Changdeokgung Palace and Jongmyo Shrine. These five monuments had been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1995, 23 years after t]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Barry Eichengreen] Trump’s foreign economic policy in disarray]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10616988</link>  
    <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 05:30:04 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[When it comes to US foreign economic policy, US President Donald Trump’s administration has two problems on its hands. Following what has become something of a pattern for this administration, both problems are of its own making. In South America, Trump & Co. are heavily exposed to a dubious effort to stabilize the Argentine peso, a task to which they have committed more than $20 billion. In Asia, they are engaged in an on-again-off-again trade war with China, in which Chinese President Xi Jinpi]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Editorial] Price of progress]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10616970</link>  
    <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 05:30:02 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The joint fact sheet released on Nov. 14 does more than tidy up the loose ends left after last month’s summit between President Lee Jae Myung and US President Donald Trump. It recalibrates the terms of the alliance by translating months of fraught bargaining into a workable blueprint for a security, economic and technology partnership. In doing so, it lifts the fog that has obscured Korea’s strategic footing, offering long-sought clarity on everything from nuclear cooperation to market access. Y]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Robert J. Fouser] Choosing green space over development]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10615718</link>  
    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[A Supreme Court ruling on Nov. 6 has thrust Jongmyo, the stately Confucian royal shrine in central Seoul, into the heart of a debate over heritage preservation and development. The court ruled in favor of a city ordinance to relax height restrictions near Jongmyo as part of a redevelopment plan for the area around Sewoon Sangga. The ruling prompted a strong response from the Korea Heritage Service, the central government agency in charge of heritage preservation. Jongmyo became one of the first ]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Editorial] The silent war]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10615714</link>  
    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[It began with a flicker on a smartphone screen. A counselor for North Korean defectors found her device suddenly wiped clean, her contacts hijacked and a fake “stress relief program” sent to friends through her account. Days later, an activist’s phone met the same fate. Both had unknowingly become pawns in North Korea’s newest front: a conflict fought not with missiles or tanks, but with malware. These attacks marked a disturbing evolution. The hackers were traced to Konni, a network tied to Kim]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Editorial] Resolve lost]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10614855</link>  
    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The prosecution&apos;s waiver of appeal in a land development corruption case linked to President Lee Jae Myung&apos;s tenure as Seongnam mayor is causing quite a stir. Chief prosecutors for districts across the country are pressing the acting prosecutor general for a convincing explanation about his decision to waive the appeal, effectively demanding his resignation. The decision also sparked public outrage, particularly over the fact that the prosecution had become unable to recover all of the criminal ]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Shinichi Fukuda] Our hopes for the new prime minister in Japan]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[On Oct. 21, 2025, Sanae Takaichi became Japan&apos;s 104th prime minister and the country&apos;s first female leader. Takaichi is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, which has recently lost public support due to political funding scandals and has suffered successive historic defeats in major elections. Takaichi, who served as a close aide to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and has clearly articulated conservative policy stances, is expected to rebuild the party&apos;s waning support and political streng]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Wang Son-taek] The difference between SSN and SSBN]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[The recent agreement between South Korea and the United States regarding the development of a nuclear-powered submarine has sparked intense debate at home and abroad. Some hail the decision as a long-awaited milestone, arguing that it strengthens South Korea’s deterrence posture against North Korea’s nuclear threat and signals that Seoul is finally acquiring the prestige of a major power. Others, however, warn that it may look like a step toward nuclear proliferation, undermining decades of Kore]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Kim Seong-kon] What to learn from &apos;KPop Demon Hunters&apos;]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10613942</link>  
    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Sometimes, especially when it comes to politics, it is tempting to believe that the world is made of good and evil, and that, fundamentally, there are those who are on the side of the angels and then there are the demons. We might think that we are angels, and that others are demons who we would do well to hunt down and eliminate from society. In these moods, it seldom occurs to us that there may be bad humans and good demons — or beings who are half-human, half-demon. “KPop Demon Hunters” delve]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Christophe Andre] The rise in government debt in OECD countries must be contained]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 05:29:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Government debt has risen markedly in most OECD countries over the past decades, reaching an average of more than 110 percent of GDP in 2024, nearly 40 percentage points above its 2007 level, prior to the global financial crisis (GFC). Within the seven major OECD economies, government debt ranged from 62 percent of GDP in Germany to 222 percent of GDP in Japan. In Korea, it slightly exceeded 50 percent of GDP. All big countries continue running budget deficits, from 2 percent of GDP in Japan to ]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Editorial] Patience pays off]]></title>
    <link>https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10613889</link>  
    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 05:30:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[South Korea’s population is aging at a pace its economy and laws have yet to match. The debate over raising the statutory retirement age to 65 has become a matter of national urgency. The country became a superaged society this year, and a widening “income void” now separates the retirement age of 60 from the national pension’s starting point of 65. For millions of second-generation baby boomers born between 1964 and 1973, that gap has become a financial chasm. The ruling bloc, led by the Democr]]>
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    <title><![CDATA[[Andrew Sheng] China’s path to strong national finance]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 05:23:00 +09:00</pubDate>
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    <![CDATA[Chinese President Xi Jinping&apos;s speech at the Fourth Plenum in Beijing last month outlined the guidelines for the upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030). There was a clear determination to focus on technological self-reliance, building a “high-quality productive forces” economic model based on innovation and a strong industrial base that would be resilient against external threats and headwinds. At the Beijing Finance Street Forum at the end of October, Vice Premier He Lifeng stressed the need ]]>
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