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Fri, November 15, 2019 | 09:20

GSOMIA and alliance

South Korea's senior security officials and diplomats, including Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha, are reportedly preparing to visit Washington next week before and after the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA), a military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, expires at midnight, Nov. 22.

2019-11-14 17:23

Role of fiscal spending

The Korea Development Institute (KDI) called for an expansionary fiscal policy and accommodative monetary operations Wednesday to help boost the sagging economy. The state-run think tank's remedy came based on its diagnosis that “the nation's business cycle might be nearing a trough.”

2019-11-14 17:20

Sale of Asiana Airlines

Asiana Airlines is likely to find a new owner after a consortium led by construction firm HDC Hyundai Development Co. was chosen as the preferred bidder for the country's No. 2 carrier Tuesday. If it succeeds in taking over the troubled airline, HDC can diversify its business and boost the local airline industry.

2019-11-13 17:12

Curb chaebol's expansion

Owner families of large business groups or chaebol that adopted a holding company system are still in charge of an aggregate 170 subsidiaries outside the system. This raises concerns about the continuous headlong expansion of chaebol into diverse business fields which puts small and medium enterprises at risk.

2019-11-13 17:11

Media 'big bang'

The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has approved two merger deals that could reshape the nation's media and content markets. This seems to be a step in the right direction in the face of toughening competition with global content providers such as Netflix and YouTube, although there are lingering disputes over the antitrust watchdog's decision.

2019-11-12 16:44

Bipartisanship in economy

Minister of Economy and Finance Hong Nam-ki said Monday that the government would do everything it could to keep the country's economic growth rate higher than 2.2 percent to 2.3 percent next year. The International Monetary Fund and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development projected the Korean economy could grow 2.2 percent and 2.3 percent, respectively, in ...

2019-11-12 16:35

Flagrant denial of history

Japan has again gone too far in distorting historical facts about its mobilization of Korean women as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers before and during World War II. This time politicians there are arguing against defining such women as “sex slaves,” a move apparently aimed at denying the country's crimes against humanity.

2019-11-11 17:05

Don't float reckless idea

A governing Democratic Party of Korea think tank has released a report recommending the replacement of the country's mandatory military service with a volunteer system. The Institute for Democracy said, “A volunteer military system will be the inevitable choice to make our military stronger and better in the face of a demographic cliff.”

2019-11-11 17:04

New start for President Moon

President Moon Jae-in has entered into the second half of his single five-year term. Presiding over a meeting of the Anti-Corruption Policy Consultative Council at Cheong Wa Dae, Friday, Moon vowed to mobilize all possible measures to enhance the level of fairness in all sectors of society. Describing establishing a fair society as one of his biggest missions as the Chief Exe...

2019-11-10 17:03

Falling energy consumption

The country's annual energy consumption may drop this year for the first time since 2009 mainly due to decreasing industrial demand, according to a report from the Korea Energy Economics Institute, Sunday.

2019-11-10 17:02

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