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[Weekender] Geeks have never been so chic in Korea
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[News Focus] Mystery deepens after hundreds of cat deaths in S. Korea
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N. Korea says it test-fired tactical ballistic missile with new guidance technology
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NewJeans members submit petitions over court injunction in Hybe-Ador conflict
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S. Korea's exports of instant noodles surpass $100m for 1st time in April: data
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[KH Explains] Why Korea's so tough on short selling
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Actors involved in past controversies return first via streaming service originals
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[Herald Interview] Byun Yo-han's 'unlikable' character is result of calculated acting
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US military commander in S. Korea during Gwangju uprising dies
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‘Kim desperately wanted to denuclearize,’ Moon writes in memoirs
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Twitter can start a party but can’t keep it going
Social media is the new forum for free speech ― and its suppression. Whether coordinating large protests in Cairo and Tunis or flash mobs in Birmingham and London, social media have proved in recent months that they are capable of disturbing business as usual. Governments, in response, are selective
ViewpointsOct. 9, 2011
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[J. Bradford DeLong] A free lunch for America
BERKELEY ― Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers had a good line at the International Monetary Fund meetings this year: governments, he said, are trying to treat a broken ankle when the patient is facing organ failure. Summers was criticizing Europe’s focus on the second-order issue of Gre
ViewpointsOct. 9, 2011
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Watch out for Putin, and Russia
The news itself was hardly startling. It has been increasingly clear during the last year that the Regent (Vladimir Putin) would recover the throne from the Dauphin (Dmitry Medvedev). But now that it seems a certainty that Russia is headed for (at least) 12 more years of Putinism, alarm bells ought
ViewpointsOct. 9, 2011
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The scapegoating of Amanda Knox
Amanda Knox is nothing if not a good story. The pretty young American who headed to Italy for her junior year abroad, fell for an Italian boy and then landed in the dock with him, accused, convicted and then exonerated on charges of murdering another young woman in a sex game gone wild.Knox was neve
ViewpointsOct. 9, 2011
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[Dominique Moisi] The nemesis of Turkish power
PARIS ― A few days ago, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan told Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab television network, that he would use his warships to prevent Israeli commandos from again boarding Gaza-bound ships, as they did last year. And in a speech in Cairo, he declared support for the United
ViewpointsOct. 9, 2011
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[Editorial] Brace for the worst
The nation’s foreign exchange reserves fell by a margin of $8.8 billion to $303.3 billion between the end of August and the end of September, the largest drop since November 2008. The decline, government officials say, resulted mainly from the weakening value of assets held in euros and pounds.There
EditorialOct. 7, 2011
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[Editorial] Post-court ruling action
With Lone Star Funds found guilty of stock-price manipulation, the Financial Services Commission is set to take post-ruling measures, including ordering the Texas-based private equity firm to dispose of the stake it holds in Korea Exchange Bank in excess of a 10 percent stake.In a retrial ordered by
EditorialOct. 7, 2011
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[William Pesek] Sex gap isn’t just stupid, it squanders billions
Paul Hogan’s reptile-wrestling tough guy from the 1986 movie “Crocodile Dundee” typified Australia’s reputation for “mateship,” a creed of male friendship that often excludes women. A quarter of a century on, it’s costing the country billions. Don’t take my word for it ― take the prime minister’s. “
ViewpointsOct. 7, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Drone strategies against al-Qaida
WASHINGTON ― Here’s the trickiest counterterrorism puzzle for U.S. policymakers: How do you stop al-Qaida from attacking the American homeland, without getting bogged down in protracted wars against insurgents? One answer would be to establish deterrence in the long war against Islamic extremis
ViewpointsOct. 7, 2011
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Digitized textbooks key to educational future
Change does not always come easy. It often comes with the sacrifice of people whose livelihoods depend on the old way of things and against the influence of the powerful who are heavily invested in keeping the status-quo. However, sometimes change is not an option but rather a challenge a nation sho
ViewpointsOct. 7, 2011
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Find common ground with Okinawa on Futenma
The issue of relocating the U.S. Marine Corps’ Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture cannot be delayed any further.How can we avoid a situation in which the air station will remain where it is? The central government must talk with the Okinawa prefectural government earnestly and search for comm
ViewpointsOct. 7, 2011
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[Andrew Sheng] European debt crisis: IMF as enforcer of last resort
Travelling in Europe before the IMF Annual Meetings in Washington D.C., there was an air of worsening crisis. A series of bad news fed the fear factor. Shortly after the Swiss National Bank intervened in the Swiss franc, a UBS rogue trader was charged with losing 2.3 billion euros in unauthorized tr
ViewpointsOct. 7, 2011
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[Editorial] R&D efficiency
In recent years, Korea’s R&D investment by both public and private sectors has increased sharply. The incumbent government has been keen to boost R&D spending under the so-called “Science and Technology 577 Plan,” which calls for increasing the nation’s R&D investment to 5 percent of GDP by 2012 and
EditorialOct. 6, 2011
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[Editorial] Boost for software industry
Lee Suk-chae, chairman of KT Corp., one of Korea’s leading telecom operators, has recently surprised domestic software developers by announcing that it will reform its predatory software procurement practices. His reform initiative deserves attention as it could revitalize the domestic software indu
EditorialOct. 6, 2011
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[Trudy Rubin] As world turned, we became our own worst enemies
These days, any assessment of American foreign policy seems to circle back to whether we can get our act together at home.This country cannot command respect overseas when its domestic politicians act like irresponsible children. The world looks agog at our paralyzed Congress. A sagging superpower u
ViewpointsOct. 6, 2011
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[Ban Ki-moon] The power to terminate poverty
NEW YORK ― Growing up as a child during the Korean War, I knew poverty first hand. I saw it around me every day; I lived it. One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy track into the mountains to escape the fighting, my village burning behind me and wondering what would happen to my family an
ViewpointsOct. 6, 2011
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Tiny Qatar’s big plans may change U.S. policy
Qatar, a country of fewer than 2 million people set on a peninsula smaller than Connecticut, seems an unlikely candidate to become a regional power. Yet with little fanfare and less warning, tiny Qatar has emerged as one of the Middle East’s most influential states. As the U.S. struggles to understa
ViewpointsOct. 6, 2011
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[Naomi Wolf ] The worst places in the world to be a woman
OXFORD ― The top and the bottom of the list of countries in Newsweek’s recent cover story, “The 2011 Global Women’s Progress Report,” evoke images of two different worlds. At the top of the list ― the “Best Places to be a Woman” ― we see the usual suspects: Iceland and the Scandinavian countrie
ViewpointsOct. 6, 2011
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[Shlomo Ben Ami] Has Palestine won battle at U.N.?
TEL AVIV ― The somber spectacle of Israel’s isolation during the United Nations debate on Palestinian statehood marks the political tsunami that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s critics warned would arrive if Israel did not propose a bold peace initiative. But, more importantly, the speeches at t
ViewpointsOct. 6, 2011
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[Editorial] Local fiscal prudence
Fiscal prudence is not just demanded of the central government. The need to maintain fiscal soundness also applies to metropolitan, provincial and municipal governments. Local debt is no less serious than national debt, on which public attention has been mainly focused until recently.But some of the
EditorialOct. 5, 2011