President Moon Jae-in is as confident as ever about his mediating role in denuclearization negotiations between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. He reaffirmed that confidence in a meeting last week with a group of senior editors from the Asia News Network, a coalition of 24 leading media organizations from 20 countries across Asia. The Korea Herald is a member of the group, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in Seoul last Friday. In the meeting, held Thursday at

The first and last months of each year see a flourish of announcements about “the person of the year” and the like. For me, it is interesting -- whether the announcements come from the Nobel committees, Time magazine or my college alumni association -- to learn more about people who have made extraordinary achievements or had great influence. This season, I had a chance to get personally involved in one such event -- designation of the Person of the Year by the Asia News Network, a coalition of

 On Tuesday, South Korean President Moon Jae-in flies to Pyongyang to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The US and North Korea are working to set up a second meeting between US President Donald Trump and Kim. These developments certainly raise hopes for a reinvigoration of negotiations on denuclearizing the North, which were propelled forward by the summits involving the three leaders held in quick succession earlier this year.　 But optimism should be guarded. A solution to the nuclear crisi

[THE INVESTOR] Nexon founder Kim Jung-ju belongs to a new breed of entrepreneurs who have engineered Korea’s information technology boom and built their own business empires. In many respects, Kim and his fellow IT gurus like Naver’s Lee Hae-jin, Kakao founder Kim Beom-soo and NCSoft founder Kim Taek-jin can be called Korea’s Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. All in their late 40s, they went to schools that draw the nation’s brightest -- Seoul National University and the Korea Advanced

[THE INVESTOR] Rep. Kim Cheol-min and 14 other members of The Minjoo Party of Korea have drafted a bill to restrict the power of the president to grant special amnesties. The bill should prompt the National Assembly to address the issue, which comes up whenever there is a presidential pardon.The bill aims, among other things, to exclude convicts from amnesty unless they have served a certain period of their prison terms. For instance, those facong the death penalty should have served at least 15