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Yoon, Lee end first talks with differences, agree to meet more
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What is Hybe’s next move?
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China outpaces Korea in smaller OLED shipments for 1st time
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[Grace Kao] Hybe vs. Ador: Inspiration, imitation and plagiarism
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[Herald Interview] Mom’s Touch seeks to replicate success in Japan
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Police to open alleged stalking probe over pastor over Dior bag scandal
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'Queen of Tears' finale sets record viewership ratings as tvN's most-watched series ending
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[News Focus] Lee tells Yoon that he has governed without political dialogue
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Seoul to deploy more military doctors to fill med prof void
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Liberal bloc moves to rewrite student rights ordinance
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Plan Colombia worked; why not try the same in Central America?
For the citizens of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, the crisis prompted by the surge of children from Latin America coming across the U.S. border is not simply an immigration story. It is about more than unemployment, poverty, gang violence and the other forces that split families and lead parents to make desperate decisions.As people from these countries repeatedly tell me, the crisis comes down to this: What will it take for my homeland to become a place where I can safely live, work and
Aug. 11, 2014
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[David Ignatius] Helping Africa increase security
WASHINGTON ― President Barack Obama touted this week’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit as “an extraordinary event.” That may sound like hype, but the gathering featured some innovative new ideas to prevent terrorism and lawlessness from spreading in Africa as it has in the Middle East. Obama announced two new programs that will help African nations combat internal disorder and the drift toward violent extremism. One is a partnership to assist countries in building rapid-deployment forces that can int
Aug. 10, 2014
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Central banker buys India too much slack
Raghuram Rajan may be too good a central banker for India’s own good.Of course, the stability the Reserve Bank of India governor has bestowed on Asia’s third-biggest economy is a good thing. When he started the job 11 months ago, the currency was plunging and markets were betting the country would be the first BRIC ― Brazil, Russia, India and China ― downgraded to junk. Today, those risks seem very distant ― and that may just be the problem.The calm that greeted Narendra Modi when he assumed pow
Aug. 10, 2014
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[Stephen L. Carter] Obama isn’t ready for another Cold War
In announcing new sanctions on Russia last week, President Barack Obama was at pains to insist that the standoff over Ukraine doesn’t mark the beginning of a new Cold War. No doubt he’s right ― but commentary on the Ukraine crisis has continued to embrace the Cold War analogy anyway. International observers have done so, too. So have some Russian commentators: “Russians Will Suffer in Putin’s New Cold War,” warns the opposition Moscow Times.Apparently, lots of people in the U.S. have similar wor
Aug. 10, 2014
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Argentina’s Griesafault
NEW YORK ― On July 30, Argentina’s creditors did not receive their semiannual payment on the bonds that were restructured after the country’s last default in 2001. Argentina had deposited $539 million in the Bank of New York Mellon a few days before. But the bank could not transfer the funds to the creditors: U.S. federal judge Thomas Griesa had ordered that Argentina could not pay the creditors who had accepted its restructuring until it fully paid ― including past interest ― those who had reje
Aug. 10, 2014
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Real border problem and what U.S. must do
The faces of frightened young children huddling together just inside our border are heartrending. Texas Gov. Rick Perry has the right attitude. Enough talk. Let’s act.Merely deploying National Guard units underscores the pressing need for a national dialogue that places immigration into a more sensible context. Too many politicians miss the real issues and exploit the topic for partisan gain.Immigration is a symptom. Immigrants have different motives for coming here, but a core problem stems fro
Aug. 10, 2014
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[Rachel Marsden] Cybersecurity hype and reality
LAS VEGAS ― The big players in the global information-security industry are intermingling with computer hackers this week at the annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. Even Chris Inglis, who stepped down as the deputy director of the National Security Agency earlier this year, is scheduled to attend the conference in his new capacity as an advisor to the American security-intelligence company Securonix. The purpose of the event is to reveal and discuss new threats and research in the field of
Aug. 8, 2014
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Richard Nixon, good liberal
Nixon without Watergate; it’s like Beethoven without music or “The Godfather” without violence.On the 40th anniversary this weekend of the resignation of the 37th U.S. president, his illegal activities, falling under the rubric of Watergate, dominate. That likely will be the case on the 140th anniversary; he is the only president ever to resign from office, just before he would have been the first convicted of impeachment offenses.Yet there was a lot more to the five and half years of Richard Ni
Aug. 8, 2014
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[Robert Reich] Due reward for social workers
What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.Does anyone seriously believe that hedge-fund mogul Steven A. Cohen is worth the $2.3 billion he raked in last year, despite being slapped with a $1.8 billion fine after his firm pleaded guilty to insider trading?On the other hand, what’s the worth to society of social workers who put in long and difficult hours dealing with patients suffering from mental illness or substance abuse? Probably higher than the
Aug. 7, 2014
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Obama is no foreign policy wimp
I find it hard to avoid the conclusion that the U.S. is doing very well at the international Great Game under President Barack Obama.Now, you may think U.S. hegemony is a good thing or a bad thing (personally I prefer it to the alternatives currently on offer). And you may disapprove of Obama’s methods, which include the scary advent of drone warfare. But in terms of pure realpolitik, Obama seems to be very far from the weak, ineffective statesman that the Republicans try to portray him as.Let’s
Aug. 7, 2014
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[Salman Haidar] Kerry should set India-U.S. ties back on the rails
Internationally, this has not been a comfortable period for the United States. Cascading crises in different parts of the world threaten to undo what was achieved not so long ago under U.S. aegis, at great cost of blood and treasure. Destructive fundamentalist and authoritarian forces that seemed to have been firmly repressed have revived in more malevolent form than ever, and rebels now feel strong enough to challenge state structures in open combat.The perpetually simmering Israel-Palestine di
Aug. 7, 2014
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Thai economy needs more than a good image
At a recent major business seminar, everyone was speaking about the obvious. Thailand’s economic outlook, the participants said, was all right for the short term but highly unpredictable in the long run. Of course, the vicious political cycle was cited and nobody was confident that another loop of uprising, potential bloodbath, an elected government targeted for abusing its mandate, and then a coup wouldn’t happen again. In addition, some expressed concern that potential investors living far awa
Aug. 7, 2014
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We can still learn from history
Covering politics and politicians isn’t good for the health. No one can live life as an endless series of nanosecond-like encounters.Sometimes it seems as if my existence is colored, even defined by blips of information from Iocal media outlets, images and sound bites.Then there are the instant buzz issues, that change every few hours: What will be the impact of Prabowo Subianto’s petulant challenge to the Indonesian presidential election results?How will President-elect Joko Widodo’s first cabi
Aug. 7, 2014
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[Kim Hoo-ran] Nature: Jeju’s top attraction
For the last 10 years or so, my family’s summer vacations have revolved around three places: Pyeongchang in Gangwon Province, Busan and Jejudo Island.Getting on a red-eye flight to arrive at a destination, disoriented from lack of sleep, just to lounge around in a tropical resort or dash about to historical sites for a few days before heading home on another long flight never appealed to us. This year, we returned to Jejudo Island after having skipped a few years. We did not have any plans ― exc
Aug. 6, 2014
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The Vladimir Putin school of leadership
The leaders of some of the biggest developing nations ― China, India, Turkey, South Africa ― are increasingly acting like Russian President Vladimir Putin. It may be that democracy as the West understands it will have to compete with a new strain of authoritarianism, much as it did with communism in Soviet times.“I feel our personalities are quite similar,” China’s Xi Jinping told Putin last year. He has since been likened to the Russian leader for exacting selective justice against his politica
Aug. 6, 2014
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U.S. can end its losing streak in Africa
The U.S.-Africa Business Forum, which brings together business executives and heads of state, is being held in Washington today (Aug. 5). The event ― part of the three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit and co-sponsored by the Department of Commerce and Bloomberg Philanthropies ― is the first such gathering.There is reason to be optimistic that Africa may be at a turning point, given that seven of the 10 fastest-growing economies in the world are on the continent. Moreover, the conference is conscio
Aug. 6, 2014
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[Kim Myong-sik] A collection of things that make us sad, 2014
Several years ago, some older journalists protested a bit with education authorities when they belatedly found that the state-endorsed high-school Korean language textbook no longer contained the Korean translation of German poet Anton Schnack’s “Things That Make Us Sad.” People who went to high school in the 1950s-70s were so impressed by the early 20th-century prose poem that they tried to have it reincluded in the textbook, albeit unsuccessfully. The popularity here of the German writing that
Aug. 6, 2014
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Warren Buffett’s giant pile of cash
When Warren Buffett has more than $50 billion he cannot find a reasonable way to invest, it is time to worry about corporate America’s enormous cash pile. This surfeit no longer signals uncertainty, but a lack of reasonably priced acquisition targets.At the end of last year, U.S. non-financial companies held a record $1.94 trillion in liquid assets (mainly cash and money market or mutual fund shares). The latest Federal Reserve data ― from the end of the first quarter ― show a somewhat slimmer c
Aug. 6, 2014
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Answers to questions about ethics in Gaza
MELBOURNE ― Is Israel’s military action in Gaza morally defensible?Different answers to that question are possible. Some depend on answers to prior questions about the founding of the state of Israel, the circumstances that led to many Palestinians becoming refugees, and responsibility for the failure of earlier efforts to reach a peaceful solution. But let us put aside these questions ― which have been explored in great depth ― and focus on the moral issues raised by the latest outbreak of host
Aug. 5, 2014
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[Lee Jae-min] Uber battle moves to Seoul
To many, Seoul has been known as a paradise of public transportation. Its clean and fast subway system gets you to anywhere you want in virtually every corner of the city. The bus stops are equipped with digital signboards that tell you the estimated time of arrival of all buses using exclusive bus lanes. Taxis are cheap and readily available at the curbside. One transportation card works everywhere. The Passenger Transport Service Act and Urban Railroad Act enshrine the sanctity of public trans
Aug. 5, 2014