Why Are Prosecutors Dragging Feet over Illegal Bugging Reinvestigation?
Further material that could shed light on suspicions that the Prime Minister's Office illegally bugged civilians two years ago, and that Cheong Wa Dae interven..
Gangjeong Naval Base Debate Loses Sight of Fundamentals
In the last couple of days, there's been a sudden increase in "anti-American/pro-North Korean" figures and "commies."There's been an increase, too, in people we "cannot at all call citizens of ..

Opposition Alliance Must Aim Higher than Simply Running Single Candidates
With one month remaining before the April 11 general election, the Democratic United Party and the Unified Progressive Party have reached a final agreement on f..

International Intervention in Syria Can Be Delayed No Longer
With US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta last week revealing the intention to use military action against Syria, attention is focusing on whether we can find the ..

One Year after Fukushima, We Must Escape Our ‘Nuclear Obsession’
March 11 will mark the first anniversary of the accident at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima following a powerful earthquake in northeastern Japan. Japa..

Korean Wave

Tragedy in Gureombi; Tragedy on Jeju-do
Mentioning history can sometimes be a mean thing to do. Today, however, it is unavoidable. The rock blasting with which the Lee Myung-bak government went fo..

Is this the Level of Park Geun-hye’s Understanding of the ‘Rule of Law’?
Saenuri Party emergency committee chairwoman Park Geun-hye said yesterday that if the Jeongsu Scholarship Foundation had gone against the law, it would have bee..

Who Must Take Responsibility for Unprecedented Media Crisis?
Early on Tuesday morning, KBS’s labor union joined that of MBC in striking. News channel YTN, too, is due to begin a strike on Thursday, while Yonhap News is h..

Time for Opposition Alliance to Decide and Act
Democratic United Party (DUP) Chairwoman Han Myeong-sook and Unified Progressive Party (UPP) Chairwoman Lee Jung-hee met yesterday and made a joint statement, t..

DUP Nomination Reform Must Go Beyond Replacing Honam Lawmakers
The Democratic United Party yesterday announced that it was dropping 6 of its 29 incumbent lawmakers in the Honam region as part of nominations for the April 11..

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