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ED Navigating the storm: anticipating the challenges of 2024

The year 2024 has dawned.

Jan 3, 2024

[ED] Navigating the storm: anticipating the challenges of 2024

ED Han Dong-hoon's gambit

Make ruling party more approachable"I hear you." Han Dong-hoon, an interim leader of the ruling People Power Party (PPP)'s interim committee, tried to make ordinary citizens more visible in Korea's political scene.

Jan 2, 2024

ED Lackluster message

In his highly anticipated New Year address that was televised for 20 minutes via the presidential office in central Seoul's Yongsan, President Yoon Suk Yeol delivered a message that prioritized the public and their livelihoods as well as vowed to carry out his reforms and root out what he calls "cartels" — meaning vested interests. Yet the address was, overall, more reserved instead of a gung-ho approach; the chief executive struck a more aspirational tone rather than one of determination and vision.

Jan 1, 2024

ED 2024: challenges and responses

The New Year is finally on the horizon. In the Oriental zodiac, this is the year of the Blue Dragon. The Blue Dragon symbolizes good fortune and power, the image of which was used mainly in palaces for kings and emperors. Now it also represents presidential power in Korea. A dragon dream is considered as the most powerful and auspicious vision. We wish the Republic of Korea to leap forward this year as if it is flying high into the sky like the dragon beyond the huge challenges that lay ahead.

Dec 31, 2023

ED 100 days to elections

Compete with visions and policies instead of mudslinging

Dec 28, 2023

ED Trump 2.0 and Korea

Differences over NK nuclear weapons may emergeBy John BurtonPolitico, a U.S. media outlet, recently reported that former U.S. President Donald Trump, if reelected in 2024, would consider easing economic sanctions and allow North Korea to keep some of its nuclear arsenal under an arms control deal.

Dec 27, 2023

ED Economy in 2024

Korea must resolve polarization, secure growth engines

Dec 26, 2023

ED Escalating Sino-US trade row

The brewing conflict between the United States and China is showing signs of escalating with both superpowers taking positions over thorny issues such as semiconductors and key rare earth metals. The U.S. announced a plan on Thursday to launch investigations next year into some 100 American companies importing Chinese-made legacy semiconductors.

Dec 25, 2023

ED Demographic dystopia

Statistics Korea said the nation’s population will fall to 36.2 million in 2072 from the current 51.3 million. And this was only the median estimate. The low estimate says the population might barely exceed 30 million, returning to a similar level from the 1960s.

Dec 24, 2023

ED Restore diplomatic balance

A recent series of media reports predicted the possibility of new security challenges next year on the Korean Peninsula.

Dec 21, 2023

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