Featured Op-Ed 10 December 2020 Bridging the Gap: LNG and Korea’s Pursuit of Carbon Neutrality Natural gas helps with South Korea's carbon footprint, but it is not enough.
Featured Business & Economy 3 December 2020 Korean Air in Talks to Acquire the Troubled Asiana Airlines COVID-19 pandemic has been a disaster for South Korea's second largest air carrier.
Featured Business & Economy 26 November 2020 More Litigious Business Environment Ahead Major reforms in the Commercial Act and Class Action Act will introduce large class action suits with punitive damages.
Featured Business & Economy 20 November 2020 Can’t Take it With You: Lee Kun-hee’s Estate Tax The estate of South Korea's richest man will be facing a very large tax bill.
Featured Media 16 November 2020 How Seoul Got the New York Times The newspaper surprised many by choosing Seoul over Tokyo.
Featured Business & Economy 11 November 2020 Why are Fewer Koreans Studying in the United States? The decline in international students pre-dates the election of Donald Trump.
Featured Business & Economy 5 November 2020 Big Hit IPO Soars, Then Slides The IPO of BTS's production company was the most hotly anticipated offering of this year.
Featured Key Players 31 October 2020 Obituary: Lee Kun-hee, Former Chairman of Samsung Group Lee's passing is an end of an era for "Korea, Inc."
Buzzword 26 October 2020 Buzzword: Bittoo Young Koreans are taking out loans to jump into the stock market.
Featured Op-Ed 23 October 2020 South Korea's Public Debt Cap: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish Not spending the resources today may mean less capability for addressing economic challenging tomorrow.
Featured Business & Economy 19 October 2020 No Love for Short Shorts: Korea’s Short-Selling Ban Continues World's broadest and longest short-sale ban may be feeding the stock market bubble.
Featured COVID-19 14 October 2020 See Where the COVID-19 Wrecking Ball Hit Seoul’s Businesses A visual map of all the small businesses in Seoul that have recently closed their doors.
Featured Business & Economy 5 October 2020 Domesticity Businesses Thrive in the Pandemic As Koreans are compelled to spend more time at home, businesses that cater to home improvement are booming.
Featured Business & Economy 1 October 2020 KFTC Enforcement is Coming for Google, Netflix, and Other Online Platforms Korea Fair Trade Commission is one of the world's most active antitrust regulators.
Featured Business & Economy 23 September 2020 Inequality in the Times of COVID-19 The pandemic's economic impact is landing disproportionately on the women, children and the poor.
Business & Economy 21 September 2020 Contactless Kiosks are the New Digital Divide Photo: Unmanned kiosk ordering system in McDonald's in Seoul.Credit: The Blue Roof. Hankook Research 한국리서치 conducted an in-depth survey [https://hrcopinion.co.kr/archives/16318] of Koreans’ attitudes toward digital devices. South Korea is among the world’s most high tech societies, with 99.7% of
Business & Economy 15 September 2020 New Initiative for Service Industry Exports Six promising service industries are selected for export promotion.
Business & Economy 9 September 2020 Korean Consumer Electronics: Wired to Wireless More wireless devices are entering Koreans' everyday lives.
Business & Economy 25 August 2020 Japan's Trade War on South Korea, One Year Later Mostly a swing and a miss.
Business & Economy 25 August 2020 Make Sejong Great Again: Democratic Party Tries Capital Relocation One More Time The Constitutional Court of Korea 헌법재판소 held in 2006 that Korea’s capital cannot be relocated absent a constitutional amendment. 14 years later, the Democratic Party 민주당 is trying again.