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Apologizing: The language of winners

The success of a government largely depends on its leader’s political stewardship — or a cool willingness to accept mistakes and the art of apology to turn a crisis into an opportunity.

2024.4.7

Democracy is an art of compromise

Now is the time to end the overtime playoffs of last year’s presidential election and start the new politics of unity.

2023.9.25

Leaders for peace

“The World Leaders of Peace and Solidarity: Kim Dae-jung, Willy Brandt and Nelson Mandela,” held at the Plaza Hotel in downtown Seoul on Tuesday in commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of late Korean president Kim Dae-jung

2023.9.12

Miracles don’t come on their own

If President Yoon Suk-yeol addresses others with empathy and respect, his opponents and people will respond.

2022.6.27

Getting to grips with freedom

President Yoon Suk-yeol gave an inaugural address stressing the concepts of freedom, free markets, fairness and communication. Freedom was his core concept.

2022.5.10

Neck and neck

Yoon Suk-yeol, left, presidential candidate of the opposition People Power Party (PPP), converses with Lee Jae-myung, presidential candidate of the ruling Democratic Party (DP), in the Kim Dae-jung Library at Yonsei University...

2021.12.9

Innocence or arrogance

President Moon Jae-in described a “structural disparity” in which people with high credit scores can get cheap loans whereas economically hard-up people with low credit scores must borrow at higher rates as the government lowered...

2021.4.5

The pardon problem

Talk about a worst-case scenario. In an editorial entitled “A moment of grave danger for U.S. democracy,” published on Jan. 5, the Financial Times wrote, “Extraordinary as it may seem, what amounts to an undeclared coup d’état is...

2021.1.11

This pair of photos, provided by Yonsei University's Kim Dae-jung Presidential Library and Museum, shows a letter dated Sept, 30, 1983, sent from late former President Kim Dae-jung to now U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, left, and Kim's letter to Biden, dated Feb. 27, 1984. [YONHAP]

Presidential library releases letters exchanged by Kim Dae-jung, Joe Biden

The Kim Dae-jung Presidential Library and Museum in Seoul on Monday disclosed letters exchanged by late former President Kim and U.S. President-elect Joe Biden during Kim's struggle to achieve South Korea's democracy in the early 1980s.

2020.11.9

Democratic Party Rep. Kim Hong-gul is seated at the National Assembly in Yeouido, western Seoul, last Wednesday. The DP decided to expel Kim from the party Friday amid allegations that he had underreported property ownership. [YONHAP]

DP expels Kim Dae-jung's son amid real estate scandal

Rep. Kim Hong-gul, the son of late President Kim Dae-jung, has been expelled from the ruling Democratic Party (DP) over allegations he underreported property ownership and real estate speculation.

2020.9.20

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