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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Dialogue hopes fade as doctors pick hard-liner as new head
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Korea enters full election mode
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Coupang pledges W3tr to expand Rocket Delivery nationwide by 2027
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[Election Battlefield] Political novice to face off star politician in ‘swing district’
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[Kim Seong-kon] The April 2024 election will decide our future
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Seoul’s bus union prepares for strike
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[Hello India] Corporate Korea sees new growth drivers in India
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A cure for round-the-clock ‘communication’
“Only connect,” E.M. Forster advised.He had no idea.I once worked for a company so wired that the boss told me, “The real test of a relationship is how quickly you can get out of bed after making love to check your email.”That was a decade ago. Now almost everyone I know is armed with an iPhone or a
Oct. 4, 2011
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[Jonathan Turley] Obama: A disaster for civil liberties
With the 2012 presidential election before us, the country is again caught up in debating national security issues, our continuing wars and the threat of terrorism. There is one related subject, however, that is rarely mentioned: civil liberties.Protecting individual rights and liberties ― apart fro
Oct. 4, 2011
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[Kim Seong-kon] Korean people now want a ‘normal’ man as president
Since its founding in 1947, the Republic of Korea has had 10 presidents. Some of them were good and some of them were not. Unfortunately, however, nearly all of them seemed to suffer certain psychological problems, which inadvertently affected their policies and ruling styles. Of course, it was the
Oct. 4, 2011
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Tech battles call for simplicity, thrift, customer focus
High technology, once again, is packed with battles for market supremacy. Amazon.com Inc. is introducing a tablet computer that takes aim at market leader Apple Inc. Another prominent showdown involves Netflix Inc.’s efforts to capture the lead in online movie streaming. Eye-catching as each joust m
Oct. 3, 2011
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[Robert Reich] A good fight on taxing the wealthy
The big fight in the months ahead ― and perhaps the defining battle of the upcoming election ― won’t be over cuts in Medicare. President Obama agrees with Republicans that some cuts may be necessary. The battle won’t even be over President Obama’s jobs program. Republicans have signaled that they mi
Oct. 3, 2011
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[Jonathan Weil] What Europe’s leaders mean when their mouths move
The error most Americans make when trying to understand the European debt crisis is this: They fail to realize that the euro isn’t just a doomed currency, but a language unto itself. Too often the great mishaps of our era can be ascribed to a failure to communicate ― from the lip-synching scandal th
Oct. 3, 2011
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[Rachel Marsden] Obama’s international leadership outsourcing
To gauge President Obama’s lack of direct involvement on the international stage, you only have to look at the popularity polls in Europe, where his approval numbers still soar at around 75 percent. In Europe, leaders often become better liked as their visibility, leadership and influence decrease.
Oct. 3, 2011
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[Yuriko Koike] A wayward China in Africa
TOKYO ― As Libya’s National Transitional Council attempts to establish a functioning government for a newly liberated country, the truth about what went on under Col. Muammar el-Gadhafi’s regime is starting to come to light. Various treasures have been unearthed from Tripoli mansions that were hasti
Oct. 3, 2011
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[William Pesek] China as J.P. Morgan might have to save world
China and the U.S. finally found something to agree on: Europe is doomed and might take the world’s two biggest economies down with it. Neither officials in Beijing nor Washington are actually using the “D word.” They don’t need to, not with Zhou Xiaochuan, China’s central bank governor, talking mat
Oct. 2, 2011
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[Joel Brinkley] Iran’s support of Syria backfiring
As the brutal Syrian uprising stumbles into its seventh month, Iran’s leaders are spinning and darting like a wobbly top. They realize that President Bashar al-Assad’s continuing slaughter of his own people is not only costing thousands of innocent Syrian lives, but also eviscerating Iran’s reputati
Oct. 2, 2011
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Obama’s unwise campaign against Palestinian statehood
President Obama is staging an unwarranted diplomatic battle against the Palestinian attempt at statehood recognition through U.N. membership.In his speech to the United Nations on Sept. 21, Obama opposed the Palestinian bid for membership without giving any good reason.“Peace will not come through s
Oct. 2, 2011
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Mahmoud Abbas: A humble moment in history
Global Viewpoint: Mr. President, how did you feel at the moment you stood before the General Assembly? At that historic moment as you stood there, how did you feel personally?Mahmoud Abbas: I felt that we are really witnessing an historic event, that we are before a just and right demand, namely tha
Oct. 2, 2011
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[Park Sang-seek] U.N. International Day of Peace: How to build peace?
No person and state on earth opposes peace, but humanity has never enjoyed permanent peace since it appeared on the globe. Scholars all over the world have never ceased to write on war and peace. All religions have been constantly preaching peace, and great world political leaders have vowed to keep
Oct. 2, 2011
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[Michael Boskin] Time running out for Europe to choose on recovery
PALO ALTO ― Europe is suffering from simultaneous sovereign-debt, banking, and currency crises. Severe economic distress and political pressure are buffeting relationships among citizens, sovereign states, and supranational institutions such as the European Central Bank. Calls are rampant for surren
Sept. 30, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Caution fills Obama’s playbook
WASHINGTON ― It was painful to watch President Obama recently at the United Nations, backing away from the goal of Palestinian statehood he had championed when he took office. The best that could be said was that it was a bit of foreign-policy realism, acknowledging the political and strategic fact
Sept. 30, 2011
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Time for Ozawa to tell his side of the story
The guilty ruling handed down to three former aides to Democratic Party of Japan strongman Ichiro Ozawa over political funding irregularities clearly establishes their criminal responsibility by the judiciary. Given this, Ozawa has an extremely heavy responsibility to assume as a politician over the
Sept. 30, 2011
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Transparent gains
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III’s first official trip to the United States achieved something more than the obligatory ceremonial visit of a new president to a key ally and a reaffirmation of the historical, geopolitical and economic ties. Although there was no one-on-one meeting between him
Sept. 30, 2011
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[Zhou Hong] World would benefit from a longer-lasting global order
One of the amazing new phenomena of the rapidly changing past few decades is the change in power configuration of today’s world compared to 20-30 years ago. The fall of the Berlin Wall not only ended the Cold War, but also, or even more significantly, combined the “two world markets” into one.
Sept. 30, 2011
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The storm over disaster aid in the United States
Some 13 percent of Americans approve of how Congress is doing its job, while 83 percent disapprove. Nearly 22 percent of Americans say the country is on the right track; 72 percent say no, the country is on the wrong track.If you were a member of Congress, these averages of recent survey results fro
Sept. 29, 2011
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[Robert Shiller] Great debt scare in U.S., Europe
NEW HAVEN ― It might not seem that Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis and growing concern about the United States’ debt position should shake basic economic confidence. But it apparently has. And loss of confidence, by discouraging consumption and investment, can be a self-fulfilling prophecy, causing t
Sept. 29, 2011