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Over 80,000 millionaires, 20 billionaires in Seoul: report
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Korean battery makers heave sigh of relief over 2-year IRA reprieve
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Yoon apologizes over first lady’s Dior bag scandal, but accuses special probe attempt as political maneuvering
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Young Korean doctors seek plan B: cosmetic dermatology or overseas
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South Korea open to Indonesian proposal to cut KF-21 payments
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Girl hanging on bridge, police trying to rescue her both fall off; rescued immediately
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Coupang earnings hit hard by losses from ailing Farfetch
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[K-pop’s dilemma] Time, profit pressures work against originality
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Why femicide and dating violence are growing issues in S. Korea
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Korea projected to outpace Taiwan in chip production by 2032: US report
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[William Pesek] This man’s $120 million taps a nation’s anger
Something fascinating is afoot in Japan: anger. People are fuming about the nuclear crisis that put their nation in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.The response is restrained compared with the perpetually aggrieved Tea Party crowd in the U.S., or Chinese who lash out at anyone abroad with the slightest criticism. Germans are plenty annoyed about bailing out deadbeat nations sharing the eur
April 6, 2011
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[Matthew Lynn] How to avoid the pitfalls of a new tech bubble
Initial public offerings. Big takeovers. Nerdy 20-somethings getting rich quickly. To borrow a phrase from an old Prince song, the markets are suddenly partying like it’s 1999 again. The tech bubble is back. Facebook Inc. is commanding an enormous valuation. So are Groupon Inc., Twitter Inc. and LivingSocial.com. Even Rovio Mobile Oy, the small Finnish company behind the hit app Angry Birds, looks
April 6, 2011
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[J. Bradford DeLong] The complex anatomy of slow recovery in U.S.
BERKELEY ― Between 1950 and 1990 ― the days of old-fashioned inflation-fighting downturns engineered by the U.S. Federal Reserve ― America’s post-recession unemployment rate would fall on average 32.4 percent over the course of a year from its initial value toward its natural rate. If the U.S. unemployment rate had started to follow such a path after peaking in the second half of 2009, it would no
April 6, 2011
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Carter’s visit encourages dissidents in Cuba
When former President Jimmy Carter last visited Cuba, in 2002, he delivered a remarkable speech via the state-run media that criticized the Castro dictatorship and exposed listeners to the truly revolutionary idea that it’s up to the Cuban people, not the one-party regime nor any foreign government, to determine Cuba’s future.Naturally, his visit raised hopes that this might represent an ever-so-s
April 5, 2011
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Excessive love for money is the root of all evils
Even people in the sports world are not free of this craze for money as more in-depth reports on the arrest of three soccer referees show. Lu Jun was arrested for taking bribes from local soccer teams. Before being exposed, he was known as the “golden whistle” for his “integrity.” He officiated in two matches at the 2002 World Cup finals in South Korea and Japan. Praising the clean soccer administ
April 5, 2011
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[Gregory Rodriguez] Business beats bigotry
Conservative Utah has bucked the national GOP trend of embracing hard-line ― and arguably inhumane ― laws meant to make states inhospitable to illegal immigrants. Two weeks ago, Utah Gov. Gary R. Herbert signed into law a bill that will grant work permits, and a path to legal residence, to undocumented immigrants and their immediate families.And conservative Arizona, which last year passed the ant
April 5, 2011
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[Lee Jae-min] Taking Korea-Japan ties to next level
The outpouring of goodwill from Korea in the aftermath of the unprecedented tsunami was supposed to usher in a new era for Korea and Japan’s bilateral relationship. When the Japanese ambassador personally appeared in a live interview with an anchorman on KBS about two weeks ago, his fluency in Korean, understanding of Korean culture and sincere appreciation for the assistance from here endeared hi
April 5, 2011
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[Andrew Hammond] Who will be Obama’s Republican opponent?
With U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday announcing his re-election campaign bid, the unofficial starting whistle for the 2012 election has been blown. In a highly unusual move, Obama will be the first U.S. president in modern history to place his campaign headquarters outside of the Washington D.C. and suburban Virginia corridor (basing it instead in his home city of Chicago). The president hop
April 5, 2011
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Homecoming for victims of Stalin’s terror
TBLISI, Georgia ― Nearly 70 years after being deported by Stalin, members of the Meskhetian Turkish community are preparing to return to Georgia. But after all this time, it’s unclear exactly what kind of welcome they will receive.The Meskhetians were one of several ethnic groups who were deported from the Caucasus region during World War II because Stalin feared they might form a fifth column wit
April 5, 2011
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[Kim Seong-kon] Men’s language vs. women’s meaning
Linguists assert that men and women talk differently and, as a result, run into communication problems. Their assertion may be true to some degree, but they are not always right. For example, some linguists contend that women are more garrulous than men. That is not true. For example, men tend to talk vociferously while conversing over drinks at a bar, and are usually more talkative than women whe
April 5, 2011
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No more sumo until bout-fixing rooted out
Penalties meted out to many sumo wrestlers involved in bout-fixing must be a catalyst for eliminating this unseemly practice from the sumo world. The Japan Sumo Association announced Friday (April 1) that it had punished 23 wrestlers and sumo elders who had rigged bouts.The penalties, including “a recommendation to voluntarily retire” and two-year suspensions from sumo tournaments, were imposed on
April 4, 2011
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[Dick Polman] Michele Bachmann’s lightbulb moment
Michele Bachmann, who is basically Sarah Palin with better articulation, appears to be mapping a 2012 Republican presidential bid. Swell. This means we’ll be hearing a lot more about how the socialists are coming to take away our incandescent lightbulbs.Seriously, this is one of Bachmann’s big causes. She happens to be flat wrong on the facts, but people who pay attention to facts probably wouldn’
April 4, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Gadhafi: A dictator in liquidation
WASHINGTON ― Col. Moammar Gadhafi has always depended on one strategic resource to hold his loopy government together, and that’s cash. But as the U.N.-backed coalition tightens its squeeze, Gadhafi is slowly running out of money ― and his inner circle is showing early signs of collapse. White House officials described a pressure campaign that is seizing Gadhafi’s assets, pounding his military and
April 4, 2011
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[Albert R. Hunt] Birthers movement may be boon for Obama
American presidents routinely have been savaged: Abraham Lincoln was called a “hideous baboon,” Dwight Eisenhower a communist and Franklin D. Roosevelt was described with epithets unprintable in this space. Few if any, however, have had the very circumstances of their birth or childhood questioned, until Barack Obama.Claims by the so-called birther movement that the 44th president wasn’t born in A
April 4, 2011
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[Jeffrey D. Sachs] Youth unemployment poses challenge to Middle East
NEW YORK ― Many factors underlay the ongoing upheavals in the Middle East: decades of corrupt and authoritarian rule, increasingly literate and digitally-connected societies, and skyrocketing world food prices. To top it off, throughout the Middle East (as well as Sub-Saharan Africa and most of South Asia), rapid population growth is fueling enormous demographic pressures.Egypt’s population, for e
April 4, 2011
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Wireless traffic jam and quest for bandwidth
The rapidly increasing demand for smartphones and mobile bandwidth has prompted some analysts and regulators to warn of a looming wireless traffic jam ― an irritant that some iPhone users in major cities have already experienced. Now, AT&T is proposing what it says is the fastest way to boost the capacity of its wireless network: buying T-Mobile. The $39-billion purchase would eliminate one of the
April 3, 2011
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[Scott Martelle] The collapse of Detroit
Imagine for a moment that every single person living in the city of San Jose, Calif., plus an additional 150,000 or so, just up and left. Vanished. Poof. Gone. Leaving their homes, business buildings and factories behind.That is, in effect, what has happened to the city of Detroit, according to 2010 U.S. Census data. The city that boasted 1.8 million residents in 1950, and was the nation’s economi
April 3, 2011
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[Joel Brinkley] Economy key to quelling China unrest
For a burgeoning world power with the planet’s second-largest economy, China may be the most paranoid nation on earth.Chinese leaders, utterly terrified of their own people, are taking every possible step to avert an uprising like those under way in the Middle East ― even though the only signs of fomentation so far have been vague musings on obscure blog posts.The anonymous calls for peaceful demo
April 3, 2011
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[Meghan Daum] Phyllis Schlafly: alive and back on the attack
This may come as a surprise, but Phyllis Schlafly, legendary conservative and leader (that is, victor) in the battle against the Equal Rights Amendment, is alive and well and still publishing books. At 86, she just collaborated with her 43-year-old niece Suzanne Venker on “The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know ― and Men Can’t Say.”If you’ve heard about this book, it might be becau
April 3, 2011
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[Guy Sorman] The hard right of France’s National Front goes soft
PARIS ― The central paradox of French politics was confirmed once again on March 27. In a nationwide vote to select local authorities (the so-called Conseiller Gnral), the far-right National Front gained 11 percent of the votes cast, but secured only 0.1 percent of the seats.This discrepancy between the National Front’s popular strength and its actual representation has been a permanent feature of
April 3, 2011