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[Reporter’s notebook] Korea’s birth rate woes are about more than boosting the ‘baby supply’By Son Ji-min, population and welfare reporter“The goal is a total fertility rate of 1.0 by 2030.”I was stunned when I came upon this phrase while scr...
[Editorial] As tensions rise on Korean Peninsula, Seoul must curb risk of unintended clashNorth Korea launched another barrage of short-range ballistic missiles on Wednesday, the final day of the extended Chuseok holiday in Korea.On Sept. 1...
[Guest essay] Watching the arrest of Telegram’s founderBy Kim Jun-il, social commentatorOur society was shaken to its core in 2019 as the horrific details of a case involving the spread of sexually exploit...
[Editorial] Irregularities in presidential residence remodel justify more than ‘warning’ from audit agencyKorea’s Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) said it found several violations of a law about government business contracts in the relocation of the pre...
[Editorial] Convictions in Deutsch Motors case mean it’s time to indict first ladyOn Thursday, an appellate court handed down a guilty verdict for the main defendants in the Deutsch Motors stock price manipulation case — a case in w...
[Editorial] Continental shelf negotiation is a test for Yoon’s diplomacy with JapanKorean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul said that Korea and Japan have started negotiating the extension of a joint development agreement for the continen...
[Reporter’s notebook] To Hankyoreh readers moved to action by our deepfake reportingBy Seo Bo-mi, director of new content“Weekday evenings are tough for me, so I wasn’t sure I would come until the last minute. I keep feeling helpless,...
[Guest essay] The real roots of Korea’s online sex crime problemBy Ryu Young-jae, Uijeongbu District Court Namyangju branch judge “Mom, can you look at this?” my son said, handing me the phone.The chat window ...
[Column] Kim Jong-un wants Trump to win? Don’t be so sureAs the US presidential race remains neck-and-neck, attention is turning to what kind of policy course the future US government will take when tackling...
[Column] The price of Korean, Japanese leaders becoming buddy-buddyBy Cho Ki-weon, international news editorWith around a month left before he steps down, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited South Korea last...
[Editorial] Kishida’s ‘farewell party’ in Seoul is culmination of Yoon’s unsustainable diplomacyJapanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who is poised to step down this month, visited Seoul on Friday for a 12th summit with South Korean President Yo...
[Correspondent’s column] Time for men to fight for democracyBy Lee Bon-young, Washington correspondentIn November, the United States will hold its second “battle of the sexes” presidential election. That is, wh...
[Guest essay] Lessons from my time scrubbing sexually exploitative material from the webBy Bang Hye-rin, manager of national security monitoring team at the Center for Military Human Rights KoreaBefore focusing on my master’s thesis, I wo...
[Column] Ukraine war is the new Vietnam — the question is whose By Jung E-gil, senior staff writerRussia’s war with Ukraine uprooted 34-year-old Natalia Suh, a Russian ethnic Korean, from her hometown in Done...
[Column] Forsaking Kim Dae-jung’s path, Korea follows Abe’s plan for Seoul-Tokyo relationsBy Gil Yun-hyung, editorial writer“Prime Minister Shinzo Abe intends to use the political clash between South Korea and Japan to rationalize the enact...

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