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Actor Song Jae-rim dies at 39
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'Are you a T?' is a new put-down in S. Korea
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Bitcoin hits record in Korea, even without ‘kimchi premium’
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Trump sours K-food outlook in US
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Korean study finds 'obese' BMI may actually be healthiest
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Boston Dynamics robot dog joins Trump’s security detail
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Hyundai’s Atlas robot takes the spotlight as Tesla's Optimus stumbles
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[Rising virtuosos] From Pororo to Paganini: 13-year-old violinist Lee Hyeon-jeong’s journey to the world stage
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Leaked cables reveal Kim Jong-un’s orders to oppose human rights pressure at UN
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Who are the K-pop stars taking Suneung this year?
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Steady efforts needed to restore schools
For children who have suffered mental trauma as a result of the recent earthquake and tsunami, school can be a valuable forum in which to talk to friends and teachers and encourage each other.The situation remains severe in devastated areas, with no clear prospects for reconstruction, but we hope initial steps will be taken to put school life back in order.The March 11 disaster left enormous scars
March 28, 2011
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[Julia Allison] Let me tell you about social media
I was a senior in college when Facebook came online. I got an account immediately, and a year later interviewed the founders for a magazine article oh-so-cleverly headlined “In Your FACE!”Clearly, I should’ve booked the next flight to Palo Alto and begged for stock options, but they struck me as arrogant. “Who do they think they are?” I thought. “They just run a little college website!”OK, I misse
March 28, 2011
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[Karel van Wolferen] Japan’s new model political leadership
AMSTERDAM ― Amid the horrifying news from Japan, the establishment of new standards of political leadership there is easy to miss ― in part because the Japanese media follow old habits of automatically criticizing how officials are dealing with the calamity, and many foreign reporters who lack perspective simply copy that critical tone. But, compared to the aftermath of the catastrophic Kobe earth
March 28, 2011
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[Trudy Rubin] Behind Obama’s risky humanitarian mission in Libya
Here’s a crucial fact that you may not realize, given the week’s headlines: Libya is only a tragic sideshow to the historic events in the Middle East.Egypt is the place that counts when we consider the prospects for Arab democracy. Bahrain is the locale where Iran and the Saudis are contesting for power. Yemen, whose president is about to fall, is the country where a strong al-Qaida branch is base
March 28, 2011
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[Meghan Daum] ‘Friday’ on YouTube and 15 minutes of flame
“We don’t hate you because you’re famous. You’re famous because we hate you.”So went one of countless tweets about Rebecca Black, the eighth-grader whose music video “Friday” ― a robotic ditty about waking up in the morning and enduring the drudgery of the school week before reaching exalted Friday ― has become a surprise hit on YouTube.On Tuesday night, Black performed on Jay Leno, and as of Wedn
March 28, 2011
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[Joel Brinkley] Egyptian polls: The sooner, the better
For the first time in history, Egyptians voted in a fully fair and free referendum on March 19. And while they celebrated this historic achievement, around the world, academics and human rights activists were bleating like stuck pigs.“There’s just not enough time for parties that haven’t existed before” to organize for upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, lamented Robert Springborg,
March 28, 2011
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Pre-empt the next economic crisis in U.S.
Falling house prices and a backlog of foreclosures have turned 2011 into the most desperate year yet for many American homeowners. The pain just keeps coming, and government programs have proven ineffective at assisting many of those in danger of losing their houses.In the short run, now would be the worst time to strip away government subsidies that support many of those same beleaguered househol
March 27, 2011
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[William Pesek] Lady Gaga is shaming those spending $309 billion
You know things are bad when pop stars a world away get more fired up about a humanitarian crisis than a nation’s own leaders.Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan would no doubt take umbrage at this assertion. Many of Japan’s 126 million residents wouldn’t, as television cameras that had been fixed on the nuclear fiasco in Fukushima turn further north. We are getting an eyeful of millions in earthqua
March 27, 2011
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[Michael Boskin] California economy in trouble
STANFORD ― California has long been a harbinger of national and global trends (both wonderful and overindulgent), a birthplace of innovation in everything from technology and entertainment to lifestyles. The world’s most important technology companies still make their start ― and their headquarters ― in California: Apple, Intel, Cisco, Oracle, Google, and Facebook, to name a few in the neighborhoo
March 27, 2011
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[Gwyneth Cravens] U.S. needs to leave Mideast bad guys alone
With the current military operation in Libya, the U.S. has taken on a third campaign for forcible regime change in the Middle East.No matter how we might try to convince ourselves otherwise ― that we are only “protecting civilians” or “implementing the will of the international community” ― Libya now joins Afghanistan and Iraq as cases where the U.S. military is using force to bring down a Muslim
March 27, 2011
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[Gwyneth Cravens] Nuclear power wins it over fossil fuel romance
Amid all the hysteria about nuclear meltdowns and radiation poisoning, here’s something to consider: U.S. commercial reactors have never caused a single death.Worldwide, nuclear power has the lowest accident rate based on the amount of energy generated by any source. Compare that record with the havoc caused by dam failures and the disease and deaths wreaked by fossil-fuel pollution and explosions
March 27, 2011
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[F. Stephen Larrabee] Turkish model hard sell to Arab world
WASHINGTON ― The dramatic revolts in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya have acted as a catalyst for a broader Arab awakening that has fundamentally shaken the Middle East’s political order, which has been in place since the late 1970s. While it is too early to predict the final outcomes, several important regional implications are already beginning to emerge.First, the revolts are a double-edged sword for
March 27, 2011
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Streamlining relief operations in Japan
As more than 10 days have passed since the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated northeastern Japan, the government should quickly review its setup so that it can carry out its relief operations as efficiently and effectively as possible.The extent of the damage wrought by the March 11 quake dwarfs that of Japan’s last big disaster ― the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake ― and Pri
March 25, 2011
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[Rebecca Solnit] Surprised by the Arab revolutions
There were surprises in this year’s unfinished revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.Many in the West were surprised that the Arab world, which we have regularly been told is medieval, hierarchical and undemocratic, was full of young men and women using their cellphones, their Internet access and their bodies in streets and squares to foment change through direct democracy and popular power.And
March 25, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Gates scanning the dark territory
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia ― Defense Secretary Bob Gates is running through the standard list of factors that have caused political upheaval across the Middle East: the youth bulge, unemployment, corruption. I start to ask another question but Gates cuts me off, as if he wants to underline the dangers and uncertainties of this moment of history. Gates says the unrest has highlighted “ethnic, sectarian
March 25, 2011
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[Editorial] Can election end the Thai political impasse?
After they parted some years ago when his trusted sidekick left his Chart Thai Party for the much more attractive Thai Rak Thai Party, Banharn Silpa-acha said his ties with Newin Chidchob were over and done with. That was just over a decade ago. But over a recent dinner between the Bhumjai Thai and Chart Thai Pattana parties, the two political veterans basically kissed and made up as their henchme
March 25, 2011
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[Editorial] Pygmies now in Pakistan leadership positions
It is Pakistan Day on March 23. While it brings back to mind the promise that the nation showed 71 years ago, also puts into sharp relief the failings and the follies of the later as well as the present generations in not living up to that promise. It was a vibrant people then, charged with a mission that they fulfilled in mere seven years to the utter amazement of the world; now, it is a depresse
March 25, 2011
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[Li Qinggong] Politics behind attacks on Libya
U.S., British and French forces began their military strikes against Libya on Saturday (March 19) in an operation the United States has codenamed Operation Odyssey Dawn.The military action followed a West-engineered United Nations Security Council resolution on the establishment of a “no-fly” zone in Libya and started with an hours-long bombardment of the North African country.Western countries ha
March 25, 2011
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[Mohamed A. El-Erian] erstanding Japan’s crisis from economic standpoints
NEWPORT BEACH ― As we all struggle to comprehend the economic and financial impact of Japan’s calamity, it is tempting to seek historical analogies for guidance. Indeed, many have been quick to cite the aftermath of the terrible 1995 Kobe earthquake. But, while that example provides some insights, it is too limited to understand what lies ahead for Japan, and excessive reliance on it could undermi
March 25, 2011
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Put an end to the absurd budget farce
Last week, Congress passed yet another stopgap measure funding the U.S. government through April 8, but lawmakers still can’t decide on a final budget for the current fiscal year. It was the sixth such temporary extension since the budget year began. “It’s a terrible way to do business,” said Rep. James P. Moran, D-Va. Apparently, lots of frustrated Americans agree with him.A new Pew Research Cent
March 24, 2011