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Jennie, Stray Kids's Met Gala attendance puts them on 'digital guillotine' blacklist
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Korean industries gauge impact of Biden's steep tariffs on China
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Controversy brews over shakeup of prosecutors amid probe of first lady
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Do Korean doctors make too much money?
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OpenAI gives ChatGPT new powers to see, hear
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Another suspect behind murder of Korean tourist in Pattaya arrested in Cambodia
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S. Korea to inject $70m into AI-powered public education
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Is FTC's conglomerate listing a boon or bane for Hybe?
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[KH Explains] Naver’s Line dilemma: Lose global footing for cash?
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NewJeans to headline palace show
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[Rachel Marsden] Go get the Lockerbie bomber from Libya
Does Barack Obama care that the terrorist convicted only a decade ago of killing 189 Americans is reportedly running around Libya?The Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, was tried in the U.K. and then released two years ago ― but only on “compassionate grounds” because he was supposed to die wi
ViewpointsSept. 5, 2011
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[Meghan Daum] New English words to live by
Every year around this time, the Concise Oxford English Dictionary releases a list of words that will be added to its next edition. It’s lucky that the announcement comes toward the end of August, when most humans want to go on vacation and most columnists, therefore, need to write an “evergreen.”Ev
ViewpointsSept. 5, 2011
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[Eric X. Li] Chinese politics: Left or right, red and redder
SHANGHAI ― China watchers are all talking about one of the most interesting recent developments in the country’s political and social scene: “singing red” ― the revival of revolutionary songs epitomizing the leftism of the Maoist era. It began in Chongqing, a major city of 20 million in the nation’s
ViewpointsSept. 5, 2011
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[Editorial] Donations and taxation
Kim Jang-hoon, a pop singer, is well known not only for his songs but his charitable giving. During the past 10 years, he has donated 11 billion won to help the unfortunate.Despite his virtue, there is no knowing when his career as a popular entertainer will come to an end. After all, isn’t populari
EditorialSept. 4, 2011
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[Editorial] Back to basics
Exports, the nation’s main source of growth, are slowing, with a double-dip recession looming in the United States and Europe. But imports are growing fast, making a deep cut in the trade surplus.As a result, growth in gross domestic product is certain to fall below the 2011 target set by President
EditorialSept. 4, 2011
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N.Y.’s new attorney general stands up to big banks
So here’s Eric Schneiderman, of whom you’ve probably never heard, who last year was elected attorney general of the state of New York, a job that arguably makes him the third most-influential state officeholder in the nation, behind only the governors of New York and California.This is because the a
ViewpointsSept. 4, 2011
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[Joel Brinkley] War costs greater than thought
As the congressional debt-reduction “super committee” begins work next week, it had better take into account trillions of dollars in anticipated war costs that no one in Washington seems willing to acknowledge.For decades now (and probably much longer) government estimates of war costs strove not to
ViewpointsSept. 4, 2011
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[S. P. Seth] China’s hegemony to face broad resistance
U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden’s recent China visit appears to have been quite uneventful, apart from the reported fight between a visiting American goodwill basketball team (unrelated to Biden’s visit) and their Chinese counterparts. Is this a portent of things to come?Considering China’s nervousnes
ViewpointsSept. 4, 2011
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[Ramesh Ponnuru] U.S. should follow world down on company taxes
Nations don’t compete with one another the way companies do. Pepsi’s gain is almost always Coca-Cola’s loss, but the same doesn’t always, or even often, hold true for national economies. Governments do compete in some respects: They want to attract capital investment to their countries, for example,
ViewpointsSept. 4, 2011
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[Park Soo-gil] In facing the North, politics should stop at the DMZ
A leading South Korean newspaper recently published a three-part series of interviews with Kim Hyun-hee, one of the two North Korean agents who bombed KAL 858 in November 1987, killing all 115 persons on board.The articles stirred up a complex strand of painful memories for me, as it probably did fo
ViewpointsSept. 4, 2011
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[Editorial] Verdict on ‘comfort women’
The Constitutional Court has ushered in a new phase in the long-running dispute between Seoul and Tokyo over compensation of Korean “comfort women” and nuclear bomb victims for their suffering and human rights abuses during Japan’s colonial rule of Korea. On Tuesday, the court ruled on a petition fi
EditorialSept. 2, 2011
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[Editorial] New drug pricing policy
The government’s plan to cut drug prices by an average of 17 percent starting next year has triggered vehement protests from the domestic pharmaceutical community. On Thursday, an alliance of 10 pharmaceutical-related organizations issued a joint statement, declaring an all-out struggle against the
EditorialSept. 2, 2011
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[William Pesek] Rock ‘n’ roll line rings true in deflation nation
Japan needs an Arab Spring. If you’d told me 10 years ago, when I moved to Tokyo, that today I’d be writing about an eighth leader, I never would’ve believed it. Yet here we are, analyzing and philosophizing about whether Yoshihiko Noda will last longer than the last five. In April 2001, Junichiro K
ViewpointsSept. 2, 2011
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[Malcolm Fraser] America’s self-inflicted decline
MELBOURNE ― If the broad post-World War II prosperity that has endured for six decades comes to an end, both the United States and Europe will be responsible. With rare exceptions, politics has become a discredited profession throughout the West. Tomorrow is always treated as more important than nex
ViewpointsSept. 2, 2011
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DPJ must revive itself through generation change
The Democratic Party of Japan-led administration has for the first time a leader with a steadfast political style and well-grounded policies.In the DPJ’s presidential election Monday, Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda defeated Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda in a runoff. It was a dra
ViewpointsSept. 2, 2011
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Jobs’ influence overshadows presidents, terrorists, turmoil
As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 draws near, it may be remarkable to argue that the person who changed the way of life the most in the past decade is neither late al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, U.S. President George Bush, who started the so-called “War on Terror” or his successor, Barack Obama, the
ViewpointsSept. 2, 2011
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[Andrew Sheng] Putting finance to work for the real economy
Finance is a service industry, but in the past three decades it seems to have gone its own way. The functions of the finance sector are to protect property rights for the real sector, improve resource allocation, reduce transaction costs, help manage risks and help discipline borrowers. Financi
ViewpointsSept. 2, 2011
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[Editorial] Session in jeopardy
The regular session of an outgoing National Assembly is the least productive as its members often shun debate on issues of concern to the public, deliberation on pending bills and participation in voting. Instead, they tend to make a final pitch in constituency work in their electoral districts in p
EditorialSept. 1, 2011
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[Editorial] Change in N.K. policy?
Signals are coming from those close to President Lee Myung-bak that he is considering changing his anti-North Korea policy in favor of improving relations with the communist state. If he is really considering such a shift in policy, he will have to think about a backlash from his conservative suppor
EditorialSept. 1, 2011
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[Michael Smerconish] Some political gaffes really say something
During his recent visit to China, U.S. Vice President Biden mistakenly said we own 85 percent of U.S. Treasury securities, while the number is actually 54 percent. But who am I to criticize?Sitting in front of a live microphone can be dangerous. I know because I do it for 20 hours each week for my n
ViewpointsSept. 1, 2011