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Medical profs at top hospitals suspend surgeries, clinics
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Samsung chip business back on track, logs W1.9tr operating profit in Q1
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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Shinsegae faces showdown with investors over SSG.com's delayed IPO
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Hopes rise for possible Gaza truce deal
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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Ex-pro baseball player who killed debtor appeals sentence
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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S. Korea to issue travel ban on Haiti amid intensifying gang violence
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Leaders of S. Korea, Angola agree to boost economic, trade cooperation
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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
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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