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Yoon apologizes for first lady Dior bag scandal, calls push for special probe ‘political’
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Korea forecast to overtake Taiwan in chip production by 2032: report
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Girl hanging on bridge, police trying to rescue her both fall off; rescued immediately
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[K-pop’s dilemma] Can K-pop break free from ‘fandom’ model?
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YouTuber fatally stabbed on livestream by another YouTuber in Busan
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Yoon rebuffs opposition's call for special probe into wife
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Arrest warrant issued for medical student for allegedly killing girlfriend after breakup
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Stray Kids hit with racism in Met Gala photo line
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[News Analysis] Yoon's first 2 years marked by intense confrontations, lack of leadership
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Yoon apologizes for wife's 'unwise conduct'
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commentary-Joel Brinkley
Drug problem adding to challenge in AfghanistanBy Joel Brinkley France can‘t seem to decide how quickly it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan after a rogue Afghan soldier opened fire on unarmed French soldiers, killing four and wounding 15.Over the last week, French officials have offered conflicting reports of their intentions. But the truth is, it doesn’t really matter whether they stay or they go. Despite the gung-ho statements we are now hearing from the NATO training program, most Af
Feb. 6, 2012
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Too much information leads to ignorance
There is a new kind of ignorance afoot in the world, one that results from overconsumption of information rather than from a lack of access to it.It’s fashionable to blame cable television and the Internet for this new ignorance. And it’s true that if you spend much time watching cable news and surfing the Internet, you’ll come away thinking that many information providers are more interested in fanning fear and feeding people’s preconceived notions than they are at communicating truth.But we sh
Feb. 5, 2012
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[David Ignatius] Two cheers for the ECB president
WASHINGTON ― Two years into the European debt crisis, there was something faintly comical about a recent headline in Wall Street Journal: “Leaders of Euro Zone Agree on Closer Union.” That phrase must be on a program key on computers in Brussels. The eurozone is still an impossibility theorem, in terms of what it promises: A common currency for countries that, whatever they claim at summit meetings about joint fiscal policy, remain resolutely separate and sovereign. It’s a matter of deeply roote
Feb. 5, 2012
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Fracking boom could finally cap myth of peak oil
The U.S. oil market could be on the verge of its own fracking revolution, similar to what the natural-gas market is already experiencing. As a result, domestic production is now projected to rise significantly over the coming decades, reducing the relative share of imports in U.S. oil consumption. Advances in horizontal drilling and hydrofracking, in which highly pressurized liquids are injected into underground rock, have been used increasingly over the past few years to extract natural gas. Th
Feb. 5, 2012
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Prepare for a contentious Republican convention
For political junkies, this is the midwinter of our discontent. With the Florida Republican primary over with, there is more than a month to go before Super Tuesday, and the next debate is three weeks away. That means I have even less reason for my post-midnight groping for my iPhone to check the latest polls or campaign Twitter feeds. So, where to turn for a fix? Here’s one idea: Familiarize yourself with the Republican Party’s rules governing delegate selection and convention procedure. Yes, I
Feb. 5, 2012
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[Shim Jae Hoon] Hunger pains test North Korea’s dynastic succession
An anxious world, watching for signs of instability after the death of Kim Jong-il, has been reassured for the time being. After 37 years of brutal rule marked by firing squads and concentration camps, a father’s arrangements for transfer of power to his third son, Kim Jong-un, appear to be moving along smoothly. But in the end, Kim’s legitimacy and political survival depend on whether or not he can resolve the ever-present threat of hunger and achieve economic reforms that could obviate a regim
Feb. 5, 2012
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[Omar Ashour] What do Egypt’s generals want?
CAIRO ― “Whatever the majority in the People’s Assembly, they are very welcome, because they won’t have the ability to impose anything that the people don’t want.” Thus declared General Mukhtar al-Mulla, a member of Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).Al-Mulla’s message was that the Islamists’ victory in Egypt’s recent election gives them neither executive power nor control of the framing of a new constitution. But General Sami Anan, Chief of Staff and the SCAF’s deputy hea
Feb. 3, 2012
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Buffett rule fixes a non-existent problem
Although Warren Buffett may be a stellar investor, his entry into the world of federal tax policy has brought forth nothing but bad ideas based on flawed information and misleading demagoguery. Let’s review the record. In his State of the Union address last week, President Barack Obama called for enactment of the so-called Buffett rule, saying it wasn’t fair that a rich person pays a lower tax rate than Buffett’s secretary. In a bald act of political theater, Obama invited Buffett’s secretary to
Feb. 3, 2012
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Restoring U.S. presence in the Philippines
Twenty years after they left their military bases here, the American forces may be back in bigger numbers. Philippine defence and military officials have confirmed a Washington Post report last week that Manila and Washington are negotiating a deal that would increase cooperation between the two militaries, owing to the tension in the West Philippine Sea over the disputed Spratlys as well as other considerations. Although Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said the terms of any accord would still
Feb. 3, 2012
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Japan needs to rewrite strategy for Russia
The East Asia situation is changing significantly, with China emerging as an economic and military power and North Korea becoming even more enigmatic with its transition in power.Despite their separation by sea, at this juncture it would be in the national interest of both Japan and Russia to deepen cooperation.Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and visiting Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov agreed in talks Saturday (Jan. 28) to increase bilateral relations in the security, energy, economy
Feb. 3, 2012
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Will Taiwan’s parliament be one of the worst?
Taiwan’s first four-year Legislative Yuan will open on Feb. 1. Altogether 113 parliamentarians will be meeting for four years rather than three, as in the past, to tackle the increasingly tough job of legislating for the common good of the electorate. The lineup is 64 for the Kuomintang, 40 for the Democratic Progressive Party, three each for the Taiwan Solidarity Union and the People First Party, and as many independents. The ruling Kuomintang has a majority of seven in the new legislature.The
Feb. 3, 2012
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Twitter users protest as Web bows to rogues
Twitter Inc. needs an Arab Spring. In the past 12 months, the micro-blogging social-networking service played a role in changing the world, 140 characters at a time. From Egypt to Libya to Syria and beyond, Twitter helped activists thwart censorship dragnets, connect with the similarly aggrieved and put underperforming leaders on the defensive. Well, that was then. This will be remembered as the year Twitter sold its corporate soul at a time when the world needs genuine transparency and the tool
Feb. 2, 2012
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[Robert Reich] Who’s bearing economic risks?
As Newt Gingrich lashes out at “liberal elites,” Mitt Romney is casting the 2012 campaign as “free enterprise on trial” ― and Romney defines free enterprise as achieving success through “risk-taking.” U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donahue, defending Romney, explains “this economy is about risk. If you don’t take risk, you can’t have success.”But who do they think is bearing the economic risks? The higher you go in today’s economy, the easier it is to make a pile of money without taking
Feb. 2, 2012
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Globalization ― survival of the phoniest
As increased globalization forces countries to pretend that they like playing with all the other kids in the playground despite fearing they’ll have their toys stolen, never has there been more blatant self-interest cloaked in the phony pretext of outreach or do-goodery. Nowadays, a country is expected to appear both broke and overtly generous ― otherwise, you’re just a jerk.Take Canada, for example. Canada used to be run by nanny-state leftists more concerned with looking like Boy Scouts to the
Feb. 2, 2012
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Racial segregation on the decline in the U.S.
Even as two-thirds of Americans now say that there are strong conflicts between rich and poor, another great American division is slowly healing. As National African-American History Month begins tomorrow (Feb. 1), we should celebrate the decline of racial segregation in America for the fourth consecutive decade. While there are far too many children ― of all races ― who are raised in the midst of poverty and desperation, the lessening of segregation reminds us that our nation continues to have
Feb. 2, 2012
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[J. Bradford DeLong] Neville Chamberlain was right
BERKELEY ― Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as the British prime minister who, as an avatar of appeasement of Nazi Germany in the late 1930s, helped to usher Europe into World War II. But, earlier in that fateful decade, relatively soon after the start of the Great Depression, the British economy was rapidly returning to its previous level of output, thanks to Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain’s reliance on fiscal stimulus to restore the price level to its pre-depression tra
Feb. 2, 2012
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Krugman take on $12 trillion question rings true
A fiery debate has broken out over an issue many thought had long been settled: Japan’s economy is sliding toward irrelevance. The freshest evidence, reported earlier this week, is the first annual trade deficit in 31 years. It means, at the very least, that the huge pool of domestic savings that Japan uses to finance its staggering national debt might instead start going to support a trade deficit, an ominous sign. Not necessarily a problem, says Eamonn Fingleton, a long-time observer who recen
Feb. 1, 2012
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A Gingrich presidency?
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that if Mitt Romney won the South Carolina primary, the Republican presidential race would be over and he would be the nominee. But Romney didn’t win, and that means it’s time to consider the unthinkable: What would life under President Gingrich be like?It’s an easy question to answer because Gingrich has spent much of his campaign listing all the things he wants to do ― not only in his first term or his first 100 days but in his first eight hours.A Gingrich presid
Feb. 1, 2012
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Historian-in-chief Gingrich can’t shake his past
I was driving when I heard the latest Republican front-runner intoning that “the centerpiece of this campaign, I believe, is American exceptionalism versus the radicalism of Saul Alinsky.” He went on from there, but I was already grinning from ear to ear. Newt Gingrich had me at Alinsky. What excites me is not the preposterousness of the statement. No, there isn’t actually any conflict between the idea that America stands alone and the outlook of the proudly independent inventor of community org
Feb. 1, 2012
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[Joel Brinkley] Possibly, there is hope for a North Korean thaw
Don’t give up on Kim Jong-un, the cherubic naif who is North Korea’s new supreme leader.For weeks now, North Korea’s establishment has been prostrating itself at his feet, while prosecuting a frenzied campaign to show his people that this young man with the chubby cheeks is a god-like leader, just like his father and grandfather before him. A few weeks ago, the state’s official media improbably credited him with presiding over North Korea’s nuclear-weapons tests, which began in 2006 ― when Kim w
Feb. 1, 2012