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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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Probe of first lady on Dior bag allegations set to begin
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Korean battery makers heave sigh of relief over 2-year IRA reprieve
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Over 80,000 millionaires, 20 billionaires in Seoul: report
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Indonesia’s KF-21 fighter jet deal cut back -- what’s next?
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[KH Explains] Can tech firms' AI alliances take on Nvidia?
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Police seek arrest warrant for med student who killed girlfriend
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Young Korean doctors seek plan B: cosmetic dermatology or overseas
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Local filmmakers criticize ‘The Roundup: Punishment’ monopoly of screens
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Indonesia’s people-centered economic model
Indonesia’s most-promising politician, Joko Widodo, who was elected governor of Jakarta province last month, looks like Barack Obama: lean and coolly self-possessed in a way that seems as much Bogartian as Javanese. Emerging out of nowhere, and serenely vaulting over the heads of establishment politicians, he embodies the possibility of change. But here the resemblance to the U.S. president ends. Obama is fighting to win reelection. Jokowi, as Widodo is popularly known, enjoyed hugely successful
Nov. 6, 2012
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[Meghan Daum] After Sandy, a bit of weather envy in L.A.
When it comes to the relationship between Southern Californians and massive storms like Sandy, the conventional wisdom is that such weather (“such” meaning the kind not commonly found in Southern California) can give rise to just a tiny bit of gloating.Think of it as stormenfreude. Were it a real word, “stormenfreude” might be defined as this: “Pleasure taken by those in temperate climates at the suffering of those in less temperate climates, especially in the wake of a storm that causes said te
Nov. 6, 2012
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[Kim Seong-kon] Pleasure and power of forgiveness and generosity
I have often thought that South Korea would be a truly advanced nation if the Korean people could have a certain degree of tolerance and generosity. Historically, all the advanced nations on earth had shared one thing in common; they had the capacity to tolerate and embrace those who are contradictorily different from them, whether they are of foreign-born or strangers.The Roman Empire, for example, embraced her diverse colonies and offered Roman citizenships even to the colonized, that is, if t
Nov. 6, 2012
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It’s time to reset U.S.-China trade relations
Mitt Romney got the crowd’s attention during a recent campaign stop in Defiance, Ohio, when he announced that Chrysler, a major local employer, would move its Jeep auto production to China. Boos rang out.Romney must have figured he’s on to something. He has flooded Ohio with TV and radio spots that say Chrysler and GM, which both received government assistance to survive, are now moving jobs to China. “Obama took GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy and sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to buil
Nov. 5, 2012
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[Robert B. Reich] The biggest issue in U.S. election
As we go into the final days of a dismal presidential campaign where too many issues have been fudged or eluded ― and the media only want to talk about who’s up and who’s down ― the biggest issue on which the candidates have given us the clearest choice is whether the rich should pay more in taxes.President Obama says emphatically yes. He proposes ending the Bush tax cut for people earning more than $250,000 a year, and requiring the rich to pay at least 30 percent of their incomes over $1 milli
Nov. 5, 2012
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The next U.S. pesident is sure to break the rules
In his interview with the Des Moines Register in Iowa, outlining his priorities for his second term, President Barack Obama made some brief remarks that received too little attention: “I’ve expressed a deep desire and taken executive action to weed out regulations that aren’t contributing to the health and public safety of our people. And we’ve made a commitment to look back and see if there are regulations out there that aren’t working, then let’s get rid of them and see if we can clear out som
Nov. 5, 2012
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Bill Clinton is already a sure election-day winner
Whoever captures the White House on Nov. 6, the election season produced one clear winner: William Jefferson Clinton. The 42nd president, starting with his speech at the Democratic National Convention establishing the predicate for President Barack Obama’s economic message, set a new standard for effective political surrogates. Republicans, including more than a few who voted, on specious grounds, to impeach him 14 years ago, extolled the good old days of the Clinton presidency. There is no more
Nov. 5, 2012
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[Joseph E. Stiglitz] The world has a stake in outcome of U.S. election
NEW YORK ― Most people around the world will not be able to vote in the United States’s upcoming presidential election, even though they have a great deal at stake in the result. Overwhelmingly, non-U.S. citizens favor Barack Obama’s reelection over a victory for his challenger, Mitt Romney. There are good reasons for this.In terms of the economy, the effects of Romney’s policies in creating a more unequal and divided society would not be directly felt abroad. But, in the past, for better and fo
Nov. 5, 2012
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Greece needs a writedown, not a buyback
The prime minister of Greece took a large political risk Oct. 31 to keep Greece in the euro, just as other euro area leaders appear to be recognizing that the country needs more time and more relief from its debt obligations to survive. That’s progress. Lowered interest rates for Greece and help with a debt buyback are among the ideas under discussion. Any move by Germany to work with Greece is welcome, even if things are only where they should have been two years ago. The coming week’s flurry o
Nov. 4, 2012
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[Lee Jae-min] Greater role as UNSC member
Pointed statements were exchanged between Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko and U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes at the first U.N. General Assembly meeting of Jan. 12, 1946. The touchy topic on the agenda was how to select six non-permanent members of the Security Council in compliance with the principle of “equitable geographical distribution” as agreed upon in the San Francisco Conference. New Zealand was particularly vocal, fearing that the region of the South Pacific would not be adequate
Nov. 4, 2012
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A vote for a president to lead on climate change
The devastation that Hurricane Sandy brought to New York City and much of the Northeast ― in lost lives, lost homes and lost business ― brought the stakes of Tuesday’s presidential election into sharp relief. The floods and fires that swept through our city left a path of destruction that will require years of recovery and rebuilding work. And in the short term, our subway system remains partially shut down, and many city residents and businesses still have no power. In just 14 months, two hurri
Nov. 4, 2012
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[Naomi Wolf] Kill and let die
NEW YORK ― By a strange but fitting coincidence, U.S. President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, held their final debate ― which focused on foreign policy ― just as the new James Bond film, Skyfall, had its world premiere in London. Although 007, who turned 50 this year, is a British-born global brand, his influence on the American political psyche ― and that psyche’s influence on Bond ― is obvious.Indeed, the latest production is a British-American partnership, and the v
Nov. 4, 2012
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[George Soros] A Europe of solidarity, not only discipline
BERLIN ― Originally, the European Union was what psychologists call a “fantastic object,” a desirable goal that inspires people’s imaginations. I saw it as the embodiment of an open society ― an association of nation-states that gave up part of their sovereignty for the common good and formed a union dominated by no one nation or nationality.The euro crisis, however, has turned the EU into something radically different. Member countries are now divided into two classes ― creditors and debtors ―
Nov. 4, 2012
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Leaders must work with natural market forces
PARIS ― Regardless of who wins the U.S. presidential election next week, one thing seems certain: Americans are about to learn the same hard lessons recently visited upon the French and the British. That is, whoever ends up being elected head of any given political system will be required to work within the confines of current global economic forces.Candidates can promise all the economic changes they want within their particular national bubble, but nothing will actually change without the bles
Nov. 2, 2012
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[J. Bradford DeLong] The West’s debt to Stalingrad
BERKELEY ― We are not newly created, innocent, rational, and reasonable beings. We are not created fresh in an unmarked Eden under a new sun. We are, instead, the products of hundreds of millions of years of myopic evolution, and thousands of years of unwritten and then recorded history. Our past has built up layer upon layer of instincts, propensities, habits of thought, patterns of interaction, and material resources.On top of this historical foundation, we build our civilization. Were it not
Nov. 2, 2012
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China’s president-in-waiting is inheriting a mess
Sales of Swiss watches to China have fallen by almost 30 percent in recent months, and jewelry sales are plummeting, too. So there can be little doubt the country is in deep trouble.As the American presidential campaign grinds toward its inglorious end, President Obama and Mitt Romney are both trying to show how tough they will be on China, infuriating Beijing. At the same time, Obama is “pivoting” the military toward Asia, away from the Middle East, obviously worried about China.But when you lo
Nov. 1, 2012
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[David Ignatius] Requiem for a ‘gray’ man
WASHINGTON ― Three days before his murder, Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan told me in a telephone interview from France that his contacts with the Syrian opposition put him “under a big light for Hezbollah” and made it “complicated for me to move” because he was a potential target. The Lebanese intelligence chief’s comments have the haunting quality of words from the other side of the grave, following his death Oct. 19 in a car-bomb attack in Beirut. He knew he would be in danger back in Lebanon bec
Nov. 1, 2012
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Another wave of Rohingya persecution
Set against the backdrop of June and August riots between majority Rakhine Buddhist and minority ethnic Muslim Rohingyas that had caused exodus of the latter out in to the sea, there has been a fresh spate of violence on the Rohingyas triggering their displacement out of their own country.Going by the United Nation’s statistics, 22,587 people have been displaced with 67 lives lost as Muslim survivors flee bullets and burning homes to escape on fishing boats floating on the sea. According to one
Nov. 1, 2012
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Keep ties steady in a time of leadership change
China, the United States and, quite likely Japan, face leadership changes at a moment of rising tension in the East China Sea.Even in the best of times, the transitional coincidence would make it challenging for them to manage their strategic relations smoothly. With the dispute between China and Japan over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands touching off confrontations at sea and protests on land, the risk of miscalculation is higher ― with potentially dangerous consequences for the region and beyond.Ev
Nov. 1, 2012
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Laos takes first steps onto stage of global trade
Laos is set to become fully integrated with the global economy after the World Trade Organisation accepted the “least-developed” country’s application for membership. Laos’s entry to the world trade-governing body is welcomed: it paves the way to transition for one of the world’s least-developed countries onto the stage of global trade.The communist country was finally accepted as a member 15 years after it first applied to join the WTO. “Laos has come a long way since it embarked on the road to
Nov. 1, 2012