(EDITORIAL from Korea JoongAng Daily on July 10)

A strike hit Samsung Electronics for the first time since its foundation in 1969. The National Samsung Electronics Union, the largest labor union in Korea, started a three-day general strike from Monday. The union demands a “rational wage increase” a…

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(EDITORIAL from Korea Herald on July 10)

South Korea’s household loans surged at an embarrassing pace last week, ringing alarm bells for financial authorities over local home buyers rushing to take out mortgage loans from banks, often beyond their repayment capacity, in a bid to ride a reco…

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