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Pyongyang should stop irresponsible act President Moon Jae-in expressed regret over North Korea's recent discharge of water from its dam just north of the inter-Korean border. “If North Korea notifies us in advance of its plans to release water from Hwanggang Dam, it would help us manage water levels in the Gunnam Dam,” Moon said. It is rare for the President to voice a complaint about the actio..

Drugmaker's ceaseless R&D investment bears another fruit Hanmi Pharmaceutical has succeeded in exporting new drug technology that could lead to another blockbuster. The Korean drugmaker entered into an exclusive licensing agreement recently with its U.S. partner MSD to commercialize a dual agonist, a candidate for a new hepatitis treatment, for 1.02 trillion won ($860 million). If the medicine h..

Doctors should join efforts to boost public health Medical doctors and trainees have threatened to go on strike to protest a government plan to raise admission quotas at medical schools. If they go ahead with their threat, they cannot avoid criticism for taking collective action to protect their vested interests at the cost of patients. The Korean Intern Resident Association (KIRA), a group of r..

Japan should change stance on compensation issue The tension between Seoul and Tokyo is escalating with both sides showing no signs of budging an inch from their firm stances regarding South Korea's Supreme Court ruling ordering Japanese companies to compensate surviving victims forced to work for them before and during World War II. A Daegu court sent official notice to Nippon Steel that it wil..

Regaining market confidence key to success The Moon Jae-in administration has come up with a new anti-speculative housing package aimed at building 132,000 homes in Seoul and its surrounding areas. One of the key measures is to ease restrictions on the reconstruction of aging apartment buildings to increase the home supply. We positively assess the package, the 23rd of its kind under the Moon go..

DPK should not adopt 'winner-take-all' formula A 176-seat majority in the National Assembly can achieve a lot of things, we are finding out. When the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) won the majority in the April 15 general election, and then later appointed its own lawmakers as heads of all 18 of the National Assembly's standing committees, the party's dominance was sealed. It was discomf..

Time to turn crisis into opportunities South Korea's industrial output rebounded in June, despite the resurgent COVID-19 pandemic. This is raising hopes for an economic recovery, although it is still too early to talk about when COVID-19 will be brought under control. According to Statistics Korea, overall industrial production increased 4.1 percent in June from a month earlier. This represented..

The South Korean government on Sunday decided to push to revise the law to require foreign coronavirus patients to cover the costs of their treatment amid a spike in the number of new infections among foreigners arriving from abroad. The decision was reached at a pan-governmental COVID-19 meeting of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters, chaired by Prime Minister Chung Sye..

Expand medical school admission quotas to guarantee public's health rights A debate is heating up over the expansion of medical school admission quotas. The government and the ruling Democratic Party decided Thursday to allow medical colleges to recruit 400 more students a year from 2022. Of the 4,000 additional doctors produced in 10 years, 3,000 will be obliged to work in provincial areas in f..

Simultaneous push for industrial promotion and deregulation needed The Ministry of Science and ICT plans to pour 120 billion won ($100 million) into developing 15 or more fifth-generation (5G) mobile telecommunication convergence service models by 2022. We hope the project will calm controversy over the lack of 5G service models, which has gripped the industry since the commercialization of 5G s..