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Korean industries gauge impact of Biden's steep tariffs on China
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Do Korean doctors make too much money?
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Is FTC's conglomerate listing a boon or bane for Hybe?
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NewJeans to headline palace show
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Coupang's Kim Bom escapes chaebol chief designation again
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Why Korean crime stories typically feature nameless, faceless perpetrators
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Rare mid-May heavy snow warning issued over mountainous areas of Gangwon
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CIO chief nominee to explain allegations at confirmation hearing
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Yoon vows to run country 'rightly' on Buddha's birthday
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Debate on 'no-seniors zones' heats up
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[Linda P. Campbell] Texas mother’s hard-luck lessons through Allentown
Driving couldn’t possibly be worse than heading toward Allentown on an unfamiliar, dark highway, with walls of rain splashing away decent visibility and tractor-trailers barreling by with no regard for the treacherous road conditions.It was Thursday last week, and you’d have thought Hurricane Irene
ViewpointsSept. 8, 2011
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[Shlomo Ben Ami] WMD-free zone in Middle East
MADRID ― Twenty-five years ago, at a summit in Rejkjavik, Iceland, U.S. President Ronald Reagan stunned the world and his Soviet counterpart, Mikhail Gorbachev, by proposing global and comprehensive elimination of all nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, the skepticism of the United States’ defense estab
ViewpointsSept. 8, 2011
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[Editorial] Party politics in crisis
The default political system throughout the world is representative democracy ― a form of government in which people are represented by those they have elected to the legislature. It applies not just to the parliamentary system of government but to the presidential system.With representatives select
EditorialSept. 7, 2011
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[Editorial] Where’s the market?
One of the first things students learn in an economics class is that, in a competitive market, the price of a good is determined by the supply of and demand for it. There is no room for intervention by the government except in case of a market failure.But the Korean government intervenes in the mark
EditorialSept. 7, 2011
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Sarkozy’s pro-NATO policy more than symbolism
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ushered in a new era of cooperation with a foreign policy that brings the country closer to the U.S. than it has been in decades. Vive la France. The fall of Muammar Qaddafi’s brutal dictatorship in Libya wouldn’t have been possible without Sarkozy’s leadership.
ViewpointsSept. 7, 2011
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[Joseph E. Stiglitz] The price of 9/11 terror attacks
NEW YORK ― The September 11, 2001, terror attacks by al-Qaida were meant to harm the United States, and they did, but in ways that Osama bin Laden probably never imagined. President George W. Bush’s response to the attacks compromised America’s basic principles, undermined its economy, and weakened
ViewpointsSept. 7, 2011
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[Iain McCalman] Australia’s refugee uproar ignores founding story
They came great distances across dangerous seas in overcrowded ships to land at various points on the coast. More than 800 boats made it during an 80-year period, each carrying fragile human cargoes. Lack of sanitation, poor food and disease were commonplace, sexual and other forms of violence were
ViewpointsSept. 7, 2011
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[William Pesek] A $31 billion loss creates the biggest tea party
Few people in their right mind would find any good in a $31 billion loss. In India’s case, it may just be the best thing that has happened in a very long time. Let’s flash forward 20 years to what school kids will learn about recent events. Sure, they may hear about Anna Hazare, the anti-corruption
ViewpointsSept. 7, 2011
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[Naomi Wolf] Charles Dickens and David Cameron’s great expectations
NEW YORK ― As I listened to the news coming out of England after the recent wave of urban riots ― and as I read Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s compelling new biography of Charles Dickens, “Becoming Dickens” ― life and art seemed to be echoing each other.In the wake of the riots, British Prime Minister D
ViewpointsSept. 7, 2011
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[Editorial] MBC’s overdue apology
MBC said it painfully accepts responsibility upon the Supreme Court’s judgment of falsity in its investigative report aired on April 27, 2008 concerning a bilateral accord for imports of U.S. beef. The broadcaster should have made a public apology for its inaccurate reporting on mad cow disease in t
EditorialSept. 6, 2011
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[Editorial] Celebrity tax evasion
Many top entertainers and sports stars make large donations to charity. It is often reported that their acts of sharing are related to their extremely difficult lives before they reached stardom. Even if some of them insist on not making their donations public, their charitable deeds become known to
EditorialSept. 6, 2011
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[Dick Polman] Cantor, GOP playing Scrooge with disaster relief
The ethos of Ebenezer Scrooge is now infecting federal disaster relief.It was inevitable that this bipartisan practice ― helping storm-tossed Americans, regardless of the cost ― would become politicized. After all, if ``tea party’’ Republicans would hold the debt ceiling hostage, in exchange for a h
ViewpointsSept. 6, 2011
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[Lee Jae-min] After all, packaging matters
The color blue is an appetite suppressant, so if you wish to reduce weight you may want to put a bluish picture of your favorite food right beside the dining table or even dye your food blue, if you can. So went an interesting TV news program a couple of days ago. Blue is associated with the bitter
ViewpointsSept. 6, 2011
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[Stephen L. Carter] Both parties misunderstand taxes, sacrifice
Taxes are in bad political odor these days. True, there has been no era in which taxation was popular, but we seem to have reached a moment of particular confusion. We have one major party dedicated to the bizarre principle that nothing that is not taxed now should ever be taxed again, and another d
ViewpointsSept. 6, 2011
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[Robert Greene] It’s not easy being Greene
On or about Sept. 3, 1592, Robert Greene died from eating too many pickled herrings and drinking too much Rhine wine, or Rhenish, as the English called it in those days. I learned this from a poetry anthology ― a gift from my mother ― containing some of Greene’s poems along with a brief biography th
ViewpointsSept. 6, 2011
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[Kim Seong-kon] Humans between angels, demons
It seems that most Koreans tend to think that the world is made of angels and demons, friends and enemies, or good and bad. It never seems to occur to Koreans that demons are fallen angels, yesterday’s friends can be today’s enemies and good persons may turn out to be bad persons and vice versa.Like
ViewpointsSept. 6, 2011
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[Editorial] Ahn Chul-soo candidacy
Ahn Chul-soo’s candidacy for the Seoul mayoral by-election late in October is getting closer to reality day by day despite his ambivalence, alerting both ruling and opposition parties. Close associates of the 49-year-old software businessman-cum-social critic say his running for Seoul mayor is “90 p
EditorialSept. 5, 2011
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[Editorial] Park Geun-hye’s essay
Park Geun-hye contributed an article to the September-October edition of Foreign Affairs, the New York-based international affairs magazine, to discuss how to achieve genuine peace on the Korean Peninsula. In the 2,250-word article, the frontrunner on the 2012 presidential race said Seoul must be mo
EditorialSept. 5, 2011
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Inflation as solution for the U.S.? No, thank you
We just endured and survived a major political crisis over the possibility that the U.S. government might default on its debts. Most people ― other than a few high-stakes poker players on the right wing of the Republican Party ― agreed that this would be a terrible thing. But now, a growing number o
ViewpointsSept. 5, 2011
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[David Ignatius] David Petraeus’ CIA challenge
WASHINGTON ― In taking over as CIA director this week, David Petraeus will confront a tricky problem: CIA analysts who will be working for him concluded in a recent assessment that the war in Afghanistan is heading toward a “stalemate” ― a view with which Petraeus disagrees. The analysts made t
ViewpointsSept. 5, 2011