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Seoul left behind in bourse consolidation

Feb 15, 2011

Global stock exchange tie-ups to reduce trading options for Korea Exchange A fresh wave of international stock exchange integration poses a bigger challenge to Korea Exchange lagging behind in tradi...
Will mobile messengers end texting?

TechnologyFeb 15, 2011

Competition among mobile messenger operators to get more fierce Kim Ji-young was dumbfounded to find out that she had not used up all of her mobile text messages when she checked her monthly plan la...
Ex-ministers visit comfort women shelter

PeopleFeb 15, 2011

Former justice ministers of both Korea and Japan visited the House of Sharing in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province on Sunday to solace the “comfort women” who were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese tr...
Pathfinder for 7 million overseas Koreans

PeopleFeb 15, 2011

Campaigner says Seoul should utilize ethnic Koreans abroad as valuable assets At the height of the Korean-Japanese diplomatic normalization talks in mid-1960s, a 22-year-old man was ruffled by the g...
[Editoriral] Pyongyang’s ruler

EditorialFeb 15, 2011

North Korean ruler Kim Jong-il turns 70 today. He officially becomes 69 but chronologists know that he celebrated his 40th birthday twice in 1981 and 1982 as Pyongyang’s legend writers for the Kim fa...
[Editorial] Chinese minister

EditorialFeb 15, 2011

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi is expected to visit Seoul next week, three months after he canceled a visit here last November. Three days before Yang’s scheduled arrival here on Nov. 26, North...
Don’t let territorial dispute just drift along

ViewpointsFeb 15, 2011

During their meeting in Moscow last week, Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, discussed the bilateral territorial dispute over four islands off Hokkaido but fai...
[Martin Khor] A new dawn, but many questions linger

ViewpointsFeb 15, 2011

People across the world were mesmerized last week by the remarkable images of the dramatic events in Egypt that eventually propelled President Hosni Mubarak out of office on Friday. In the end, the ...
[Michael Mandelbaum] Can Egypt become a true democracy?

ViewpointsFeb 15, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC ― Hosni Mubarak’s resignation as President of Egypt marks the beginning of an important stage in that country’s transition to a new political system. But will the political transition ...
[Trudy Rubin] Egyptians must handle revolution carefully

ViewpointsFeb 15, 2011

As Cairo erupted in jubilation on Friday over the announcement that Hosni Mubarak had stepped down, I remembered another celebration of revolution I witnessed in 1979. I was visiting some Syrian lef...
[David Pauly] Rumblings may lead to Arab democracy

ViewpointsFeb 15, 2011

Is this 1989 in the Arab world? Twenty-two years ago, the Soviet Union’s police state began collapsing under its own weight ― leading to democracy and capitalism throughout Eastern Europe. A striki...
[Kim Seong-kon] Crisis of the university English department

ViewpointsFeb 15, 2011

With the passage of the bill in the National Assembly for the incorporation of Seoul National University in 2012, the SNU Department of English is under fire once again. Under the new system, all SNU...
Fermentation Celebration to offer feast in Seoul

Expat LivingFeb 15, 2011

Small-scale producers are to offer an array of locally fermented goods at a Seoul bar. The city’s first ever “Fermentation Celebration” is to introduce a variety of home-made produce including bread...
Ruling leaves F-2 visa applicants stranded

Expat LivingFeb 15, 2011

Citizens of America, Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand all struggled to obtain the F-2 spouse visa this year, as the required documentation ceased to be available. Until Dec. 31, embassies...
Expat climbers work to conserve routes

Expat LivingFeb 15, 2011

For expat rock climbers, the unique beauty of Korean mountain ranges has a way of stealing their hearts. “The places I often go to have become very special to me. These are beautiful places packed w...