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[Newsmaker] Limbo looms for Thailand after election

World NewsFeb 4, 2014

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra arrives to cast her ballot for the general election at a polling station in Bangkok on Sunday. (AP-Yonhap) BANGKOK (AFP) ― Thailand’s protest-plagued election...
[Newsmaker] LG Uplus rises on LTE leadership

TechnologyFeb 3, 2014

Lee Sang-chul (The Korea Herald) LG Uplus was always the smallest and branded the worst telecommunication service provider that stood in the shadows of SK Telecom and KT. Feature phones carried by ...
[Newsmaker] Bernanke: Final chapter yet to be written

World NewsFeb 2, 2014

Ben S. Bernanke, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during a discussion at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 16. (Bloomberg) WASHINGTON (AP) ― Ben Bernanke on Fr...
[Newsmaker] Samsung nixes hiring plan after backlash

Social affairsJan 28, 2014

Job seekers leave a high school in Seoul after taking Samsung’s entrance exam in October 2013. (Yonhap) Samsung Group, South Korea’s largest conglomerate, said Tuesday it would scrap its heavily cri...
[Newsmaker] Samsung, Hyundai vie for Gangnam site

IndustryJan 27, 2014

Hyundai Motor Group chairman Chung Mong-koo (left) and Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee. (The Korea Herald) A bidding war is heating up between the nation’s two top conglomerates Samsung an...
[Newsmaker] Can former chip guru save KT?

TechnologyJan 26, 2014

Hwang Chang-gyu Time has come for Hwang Chang-gyu to prove his ability to overcome a crisis as he officially takes the helm at KT, Korea’s second largest mobile carrier, Monday. Faced with a lacklu...
[Newsmaker] El-Erian’s departure surprises investors

World BusinessJan 23, 2014

Mohamed El-Erian speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in 2011. (Bloomberg) When Mohamed El-Erian first told Bill Gross several weeks ago that he wanted to leave to “recharge the batteries,...
[Newsmaker] Chinese display makers catching up fast

TechnologyJan 22, 2014

Models pose with LG Electronics’ flexible OLED TVs unveiled at the international CES in Las Vegas this month. (LG Electronics) Dominance is shifting in the global display market as Chinese companie...
[Newsmaker] Korea-Japan tension rises over memorial

Foreign affairsJan 21, 2014

Photos and articles describe the feats of Ahn Jung-geun, who assassinated the first prime minister of Japan, Hirobumi Ito, in Harbin in 1909 in protest against its colonial rule, at a newly opened me...
[Newsmaker] Weak security for Korean credit cards

Jan 20, 2014

Customers wait to have their credit cards reissued to prevent losses from a leak of personal information at the Lotte Card Center in a branch of Lotte Department Store in Seoul on Monday. (Yonhap New...
[Newsmaker] Honda’s historical justice gains momentum

PoliticsJan 19, 2014

Mike Honda U.S. lawmaker Mike Honda’s push for historical justice gained greater momentum last week with the passage of a spending bill that included a provision pressuring Japan to apologize for it...
[Newsmaker] Feud rages over local election rules

PoliticsJan 16, 2014

Activists supporting the abolition of the candidate nomination system for local elections call on the ruling Saenuri Party to follow through with President Park Geun-hye’s campaign pledge outside the...
[Newsmaker] Sunshine Policy DP’s bone of contention

PoliticsJan 15, 2014

Lawmakers taking part in a forum aimed at reducing regionalism, including Democratic Party Rep. Park Jie-won (second from left) and Saenuri Party floor leader Rep. Choi Kyung-hwan (second from right)...
[Newsmaker] France’s Hollande hits new bump

World NewsJan 14, 2014

French President Francois Hollande (left) and his companion Valerie Trierweiler arrive for a state dinner at the Elysee Palace, in Paris as part of Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski's two-day vis...
[Newsmaker] Yeom to become Korea’s third cardinal

PeopleJan 13, 2014

Newly named Korean cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung holds a bouquet of flowers in a congratulatory ceremony at the Seoul Archdiocese building in Myeong-dong, Seoul, Monday. (Kim Myung-sub/The Korea Hera...