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What is democracy?

Democracy has a thousand faces. All politicians promote democracy, but they don’t always mean what we think. Democracy is also fragile. It easily changes.As democracy in the United States has been shaken, countries that have...

2020.12.15

Democracy falls apart

People’s everyday lives are on pause, but politicians are busy and issues of democracy are frequently being mentioned. Railroading a number of bills through the National Assembly thanks to its supermajority, the ruling Democratic...

2020.12.14

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Away from atopy, toward empathy

Korean politics is suffering from a serious case of atopy. Due to its weakened immune system, it reacts sensitively to irritants, even small ones. Unable to beat the itch, it keeps scratching its scars until they bleed, to the...

2020.10.11

Shaking the judiciary

Attacks on the court and judge that permitted the rally on Aug. 15 in Gwanghwamun, central Seoul, have gone overboard. Lawmakers as well as the prime minister and justice minister joining the civilian criticism are undermining...

2020.8.30

A dearth of viable ideas

It is shocking that key members of the presidential secretariat tendered their resignations en masse — including Senior Civil Affairs Secretary Kim Jo-won, who had faced fierce criticism for his attempt to deceive the public...

2020.8.10

Korea’s Brasilia

Ever since the ruling Democratic Party (DP) raised the issue of relocating Korea’s administrative capital to Sejong City, I thought I’d drop by one day to take a look for myself. Last weekend as I drove to Daejeon to meet a...

2020.8.9

Shaking the chief auditor

The ruling Democratic Party (DP) has been ratcheting up its attack on Choe Jae-hyeong, head of the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI). During a parliamentary questioning session on the BAI on July 23, DP Rep. Song Gab-seok...

2020.7.28

Arrogant and domineering (KOR)

Keum Tae-sup, former lawmaker of the ruling Democratic Party (DP), has been punished for voting across party lines. After abstaining from voting on a controversial...

2020.6.2

Arrogant and domineering

Keum Tae-sup, former lawmaker of the ruling Democratic Party (DP), has been punished for voting across party lines. After abstaining from voting on a controversial DP-proposed bill authorizing the government to establish an extraordinary...