[%%IMAGE1%%]<p>  Yong Yoon-shin (left) and Woo Ram of the Part-Time Workers Union hold a sit-in protest calling for a 10,000 won (US$8.60) minimum wage outside the National Assembly in Seoul, on a day of heavy rain, July 5. The government commission will decide this year’s minimum wage by July 16. (by Park Jong-shik, staff photographer)</p>

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[Photo] Minimum wage struggle in the heavy rain

We are not impotent, but, quite on the contrary, omnipotent, without being able to determine the scope of our powers

[Column] Life on our Trisolaris

Six times thus far state commissions have slapped broadcasters with penalties for making reference to stock price manipulation allegations faced by Kim Keon-hee

[Editorial] Penalties for airing allegations against Korea’s first lady endanger free press

Spending millions on SM-3 interceptor missiles will not protect South Korea

[Editorial] Yoon must halt procurement of SM-3 interceptor missiles

Questions remain as to whether a population decline necessarily dictates a pessimistic future for a country

[Guest essay] Maybe Korea’s rapid population decline is an opportunity, not a crisis

Humbled in his domestic policy by an election defeat, Yoon should use this opportunity to reflect on his administration’s diplomacy as well

[Column] Can Yoon steer diplomacy with Russia, China back on track?

An independent probe into the death of a Marine could expose manipulation of state affairs

[Column] Season 2 of special prosecutor probe may be coming to Korea soon

Park Geun-hye’s experience is a cautionary tale for Yoon

[Column] Park Geun-hye déjà vu in Yoon Suk-yeol

The extreme confrontation unfolding now between South and North is one where even a small mistake could lead to disaster

[Editorial] New weight of N. Korea’s nuclear threats makes dialogue all the more urgent

Even Rhee himself insisted that the government established in 1948 was “reconstructing” the government established in 1919 by independence activists

[Guest essay] The real reason Korea’s new right wants to dub Rhee a founding father

Mutual acknowledgment is the first step to peace and coexistence, so perhaps we in South Korea should give up the term “Bukhan” (North Korea) for the name it prefers: “Choson”

[Column] ‘Choson’: Is it time we start referring to N. Korea in its own terms?

60% of young Koreans see no need to have kids after marriage

New sex-ed guidelines forbid teaching about homosexuality

Presidential office warns of veto in response to opposition passing special counsel probe act

How daycares became the most viable business for the self-employed

Months and months of overdue wages are pushing migrant workers in Korea into debt

Bills for Itaewon crush inquiry, special counsel probe into Marine’s death pass National Assembly

OECD upgrades Korea’s growth forecast from 2.2% to 2.6%

Gangnam murderer says he killed “because women have always ignored me”

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