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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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Nicaragua shuts down Seoul embassy
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Rocket engine expert, ex-NASA exec to lead Korea's new space agency
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Hybe's multilabel system tested amid conflict with Ador
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SNU profs to suspend treatment for one day
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SK hynix pledges W20tr to ramp up DRAM production at home
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Over-50s, men, single-person households take up majority of those filing for bankruptcy
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Ministry denies blame for Jamboree debacle
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Pianist Cho Seong-Jin named Berlin Philharmonic's artist-in-residence
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China’s measured embrace of India
BEIJING ― Chinese President Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to India, the main leg of a recent tour of Central and South Asia, sheds new light on China’s emerging approach to its neighbors, particularly Asia’s other giant. Recent subtle changes in Sino-Indian relations could prove to be enormously consequential for the world in the coming decades.Under Xi, China is adopting a new grand strategy which can be called “dual rebalancing”: implementing bold domestic reforms to regain economic momentum wh
Sept. 23, 2014
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[Kim Seong-kon] The shallowness of our times
Are human beings better than animals? Professor emeritus Yu Jong-ho replies with an emphatic “No!” to that question. He poignantly points out that human beings are the only species that pretends to concede defeat while waiting for the right moment to strike at the victor. Only human beings slaughter their enemies even after they have surrendered. “Animals never do that,” remarks professor Yu. “The fight ends when a dog or a cat yields by displaying its vulnerable belly to the enemy.”Indeed, we h
Sept. 23, 2014
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Turkey’s complicated position on Islamic State
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the release of 46 citizens held hostage by Islamic State has freed him to cooperate more substantially with the U.S.-led coalition to destroy the group. It might not be that straightforward.Although the U.S.’s strategy on Islamic State is complicated ― it is attempting to crush the group, while also trying to force a nuclear deal on one of the group’s two most powerful regional opponents (Iran) and topple the second (Syrian President Bashar al-Ass
Sept. 23, 2014
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[Stephen L. Carter] Bring back Department of War
Not content with fighting over whether to call the war on Islamic State a war, and whether to call Islamic State the enemy, we are now arguing whether to call Islamic State Islamic State.Ah, the words of war. War has never brought out the best in the language. This administration, like its predecessor, is prosecuting its war that isn’t a war under the authority of a declaration of war that isn’t a declaration of war but an “Authorization for the Use of Military Force.” (In keeping with this dubi
Sept. 22, 2014
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To fight Ebola, create health workforce reserve force
A recent projection of the West Africa Ebola outbreak is that it now may take 12 to 18 months to control and will infect 100,000 people. President Barack Obama announced the deployment of 3,000 military troops, more than a hundred Centers for Disease Control and Prevention personnel and millions of dollars to help stem the tide.How did the outbreak get so out of control?The answer is partly rooted in where Ebola struck. Health systems in the post-conflict states where it hit first and hardest we
Sept. 22, 2014
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[Clive Crook] Scotland’s vote settles nothing on U.K.’s future
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron is a happy man right now. If he’d lost the union through sheer carelessness, which looked possible last week, history would have been unforgiving. Had the Scots voted for independence, the poor man would have ranked for all time, beyond hope of redemption, below Neville Chamberlain in the gallery of Great British Failures. Congratulations, sir: Your reputation is damaged but retrievable.It’s too soon to say that the U.K. has cause to be happy.One good thing: The
Sept. 22, 2014
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[Cho Kyu-hyung] Korean businessmen’s network going global
China’s gross national product reached $8.227 trillion in 2013. As it was half that of the U.S., this shows the Chinese economy soared to became the world’s second-largest. The global economy forecasts China will overtake the U.S. economy in 10 years. China’s rapid economic growth is largely attributable to not only its cheaper labor force but also aggressive investments from overseas Chinese around the world. The number of Chinese living abroad is estimated at about 57 million. With the ethnic
Sept. 22, 2014
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Putin’s antimodern empire
Seventy-five years ago, on Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland and began what would become the bloodiest war in human history, World War II. Throughout the 1930s, the nature of the Nazi regime and its intentions were quite obvious. Yet the major European powers, which could have prevented the war, were preoccupied with narrow national concerns and continued playing geopolitical games.It is a frightening perspective that one day the same thing might be said about 2014, the time when Russia
Sept. 22, 2014
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[David Ignatius] U.S. underestimates IS fighters
WASHINGTON ― The U.S. has made the same mistake in evaluating fighters from the Islamic State that it did in Vietnam ― by underestimating the enemy’s will, according to James Clapper, the director of national intelligence. Clapper’s comments came in a telephone interview Wednesday, in which he summarized the elements of a new “National Intelligence Strategy” released this week. Clapper also agreed to answer some broader questions about intelligence issues confronting the country. Asked whether t
Sept. 21, 2014
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The problem of Piketty’s missing rentiers
Most reviews of Thomas Piketty’s book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” have already been written since its startling rise to the top of bestseller lists in April. But I thought it wise to read the volume in its entirety before offering my thoughts. It has taken me five months, but I have finally finished it.One thing that the book has in common with Karl Marx’s Capital is that it serves as a rallying point for those concerned about inequality, regardless of whether they understand or agree
Sept. 21, 2014
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China’s ODA diplomacy
Over the last decade, China has become an important player in the global aid scene. Because of its growing economy and its increasing influence as a regional and global player, China has gained much attention worldwide. Significantly, the volume of official development assistance (ODA) from China is rising. China has been increasing its outward flow of aid at a remarkable rate. On July 10, 2014, China released its second white paper on foreign aid following its first paper in 2011. According to
Sept. 21, 2014
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[Park Sang-seek] Is trust-building between two Koreas possible?
When President Park Geun-hye in her Independence Day speech proposed South-North exchanges and cooperation in nonpolitical fields, the North Korean authorities retorted that without eradicating the political and military confrontation between the two sides, economic, social and cultural cooperation would be meaningless. Since the end of the Korean War, North Korea has consistently claimed that the U.S. and South Korea threaten it through their combined military forces, reinforced by the U.S. nuc
Sept. 21, 2014
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Looking through markets’ rose-tinted spectacles
This has been an unusual year for the global economy, characterized by a series of unanticipated economic, geopolitical, and market shifts ― and the final quarter is likely to be no different. How these shifts ultimately play out will have a major impact on the effectiveness of government policies ― and much more. So why have financial markets been behaving as if they were in a world of their own?Apparently unfazed by disappointing growth in both advanced and emerging economies, or by surging ge
Sept. 21, 2014
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[Daniel W. Drezner] The system is working
MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS ― As the latest G-20 meeting of finance ministers starts in Cairns, Australia, the Legion of Gloom is at it again. Their conventional wisdom is that “the system” ― global governance structures ranging from the World Trade Organization and the G-20 to the major central banks ― is badly broken and in desperate need of repair. In fact, the global economic order has worked remarkably well since 2008.True, the first year of the Great Recession was more severe than the first yea
Sept. 19, 2014
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How many can U.S. protect against persecution?
There is no question that Aminta Cifuentes’ marriage was not just bad but a threat to her life. Her husband beat her regularly. He burned her breast with caustic paint thinner. He raped her. When police were called, the officers refused to intervene; then, he threatened to kill her if she called them again. After Cifuentes ran away with her two children, the husband tracked her down and the violence resumed.It was, as a court ruling said, “repugnant abuse.” But it took place in Guatemala. In 200
Sept. 19, 2014
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[Rachel Marsden] Has WWIII already begun?
While recently commemorating the World War I centenary at an Italian military cemetery, Pope Francis declared: “Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction.” The pope’s observation begs the question: If World War III has already started, would we even know it? Or would it only be evident in the rearview mirror?Ask 10 people you know to identify the thunderclap that started World War II.
Sept. 18, 2014
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Bad loans could bust China
The risk of what Nobel laureate Paul Krugman calls “Japanification” ― a semipermanent economic funk ― has haunted China for at least a couple of years now. Last week a Bank of America Merrill Lynch report again asked, “Will China Repeat Japan’s Experience?”Let’s dispense with the suspense: Yes, China very likely will. And the outcome will have far more serious global implications than Krugman’s main worry, which focuses on the chances of stagnation in Europe.China’s “severely under-capitalized f
Sept. 18, 2014
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[Bunn Nagara] Tide of hope with limited perils in East Asia
The old Chinese description of experiencing a perilous phase as “living in interesting times” is familiar enough.So is the expectation that doing so opens up new possibilities. Both apply particularly to East Asia today.Unfortunately, a sense of dread rather than hopes of renewal seems to dominate this anticipation. Much of the negative energy relates to a realignment of naval forces in the region’s maritime zones.What began as former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s naval “pivot” strat
Sept. 18, 2014
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Japan ‘conveniently’ neglects to remember its aggressive past
Eighty-three years ago on Sept. 18, a Japanese Kwangtung Army lieutenant placed dynamite at a small section of Liutiaohu on the South Manchurian Railroad, which was owned and operated by the Japanese, to create a conflagration for which the Chinese would be blamed, thus creating an excuse to attack a Manchurian Army garrison in nearby Beidaying. The purpose of the plot was the conquest of Manchuria.The plot concocted by the Kwangtung Army worked. The Liutiaohu Incident escalated into the Mukden
Sept. 18, 2014
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Should Pakistani entertainment cater to India?
I was once approached by a producer for making a movie.The prevailing notion was that we need to make something that sells well in India. The producers were willing to go to any lengths to ensure that outcome; from hiring Indian actors to outsourcing key production tasks. This got me thinking:Bollywood already makes their own blockbusters, so why would they patronise what would, at best, be our tribute to them? We already have such talented individuals in our own country; why outsource?Waar is t
Sept. 18, 2014