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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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[Robert Reich] Workers need marches, not parades
Labor Day is traditionally a time for picnics and parades. But this year is no picnic for American workers, and a protest march would be more appropriate than a parade.Not only are 25 million unemployed or underemployed, but American companies continue to cut wages and benefits. The median wage is s
ViewpointsSept. 1, 2011
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Navigating the road map to a post-Gadhafi Libya
WASHINGTON ― As the Libyan rebels continue to mop up resistance inside Tripoli and extend the nominal authority of the Transitional National Council to the rest of Libya, it is important to remember that the establishment of a new Libya will take time and face challenges even greater than those requ
ViewpointsSept. 1, 2011
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Mexican president correctly hits cartels’ terrorist threat
Mexican President Felipe Calderon issued a long overdue warning to drug cartel leaders last week that their murderous rampage has crossed a threshold and deserves to be labeled what it really is: terrorism. His acknowledgement will help change the mindset about the true nature of this menace and cou
ViewpointsSept. 1, 2011
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[Frida Ghitis] Someone wants a war in the Middle East
Something extremely important and exceedingly dangerous is unfolding in a most explosive part of the globe, but it is receiving only minimal attention by the media and by world leaders. An outbreak of violence in Southern Israel, Gaza, and along the Egyptian border, triggered by a recent attack agai
ViewpointsSept. 1, 2011
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[Jeffrey D. Sachs] The new economics of happiness
NEW YORK ― We live in a time of high anxiety. Despite the world’s unprecedented total wealth, there is vast insecurity, unrest, and dissatisfaction. In the United States, a large majority of Americans believe that the country is “on the wrong track.” Pessimism has soared. The same is true in many ot
ViewpointsSept. 1, 2011
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[J. Bradford DeLong] Ben Bernanke’s dream world
BERKELEY ― U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke is not regarded as an oracle in the way that his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, was before the financial crisis. But financial markets were glued to the speech he gave in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on Aug. 26. What they heard was a bit of a muddle
ViewpointsAug. 31, 2011
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[Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus] Harvard’s No. 1 ranking makes us wonder
The U.S. News and World Report “Best Colleges” rankings, which will be published next month, are viewed as a Baedeker and Bible by more than 5 million American parents considering colleges and universities for their high-school juniors and seniors. We think that parents should use this guide with ca
ViewpointsAug. 31, 2011
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[Editorial] Fostering female CEOs
Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee recently stressed the importance of utilizing women in the workforce, saying talented female employees should be allowed to become CEOs. Lee held a rare session last week with a small number of female executives from Samsung companies to express his commitmen
EditorialAug. 31, 2011
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[Editorial] Education and politics
Seoul education chief Kwak No-hyun’s alleged involvement in election campaign corruption has sparked a flurry of moves to reform the current system for electing education officials in the nation’s seven largest cities and nine provinces.A group of lawmakers of the ruling Grand National Party is movi
EditorialAug. 31, 2011
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[Dominique Moisi] Who among us will help the poor?
PARIS ― With the deepening of the economic crisis and the prospect of another recession looming large on the horizon, growing social inequality has become an increasingly urgent issue. How does one reinforce a sense of solidarity and responsibility within a country? Who will protect the weakest?&nbs
ViewpointsAug. 31, 2011
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[Meghan Daum] Politics signals the invasion of the idiocrats
You may not have seen “Idiocracy,” the 2006 sci-fi comedy set in an utterly dysfunctional nation 500 years in the future, but chances are you’ve heard it mentioned lately. References to the film seem to be everywhere, and not just in op-eds penned by cranky columnists (I mentioned it in a column las
ViewpointsAug. 31, 2011
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[Eve Weinbaum and Rachel Roth] Beyond suffrage: How far have women come since?
Today we celebrate the anniversary of female suffrage, a victory that took more than 70 years of political struggle to achieve. After women won the right to vote in 1920, socialist feminist Crystal Eastman observed that suffrage was an important first step but that what women really wanted was freed
ViewpointsAug. 31, 2011
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[Hans-Werner Sinn] The trouble with eurobonds
MUNICH ― German Chancellor Angela Merkel has withstood the pressure from southern Europe: there will be no eurobonds. For the markets, this is a disappointment, but there is no other way for these countries to rebuild themselves than to insist patiently on a phase of debt discipline and an end to la
ViewpointsAug. 30, 2011
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[William Pesek] Steve Jobs trumps CEO of $5 trillion economy
Things are bad when a world leader quitting registers less than a corporate executive. That’s what Naoto Kan gets for bowing out the same week as Steve Jobs. Markets reacted immediately to news of Jobs’s departure from Apple Inc.; there was barely a ripple after Kan cashed out and paved the way for
ViewpointsAug. 30, 2011
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[Editorial] Jeju naval base
The Jeju district court issued an injunction Monday to stop obstructions by radical activists and residents against the construction work for a naval base at Gangjeong on the southern coast of Jeju Island. However, the court ruling did not totally prohibit opposition activities around the constructi
EditorialAug. 30, 2011
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[Editorial] Japan’s new premier
Watching Japan install a new prime minister after his predecessor’s 15 months in office, we cannot but feel unease about continuing political instability in the neighboring country, which needs a strong leadership to weather the many political and economic problems ahead. Naoto Kan may take consolat
EditorialAug. 30, 2011
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[Kim Seong-kon] Korean vs. American universities
As someone who has taught at both Korean and American universities, I know there are some interesting differences between the two higher educational institutions. In Korea, for example, most high school students seem to believe that a college degree is imperative in order to climb the ladder of soci
ViewpointsAug. 30, 2011
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[Daniel Fiedler] Child abuse and the failure of South Korean courts
In November 1991 South Korea ratified the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Since that ratification, the South Korean government has enacted a variety of laws to protect children from abuse and exploitation, the centerpiece law being the Child Welfare Act. More recently Korea b
ViewpointsAug. 30, 2011
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[Albert R. Hunt] Changing Vietnam yearns for closer U.S. embrace
Pham Binh Minh, whose father fought to force the U.S. out of Vietnam, is working fervently to elevate the interest and involvement of his country’s former enemy. Vietnam wants a U.S. presence for economic reasons and as a balance to China, the regional superpower. Minh is the new foreign minister; h
ViewpointsAug. 30, 2011
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Who should win in the People vs. Apple?
With more than 27,000 iPhone users suing Apple over location tracking ...A man uses an Apple iPhone.Consumers bite backKorean users of Apple’s iPhone have filed a class action suit, arguing Apple had violated its customers’ right to privacy by tracking their locations, causing distress. A lawyer suc
Aug. 29, 2011