• Business

    Horror in Yeouido

    Brokerage houses in firing spree as business sours Brokerage houses are dramatically laying-off employees, as the bad economy continues to squeeze finances. Workers are obviously angry and so are customers, who question how the companies can attempt to promote optimism and encourage people to buy shares while corporate management in…

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  • Column

    Why overseas Koreans don’t vote

    NEW YORK ― The upcoming Korean presidential election is a big deal ― and an even bigger one for Koreans overseas, or so we’re told. As it will be the first-ever presidential election allowing Korean citizens living abroad to vote, the ballot ― to be held in December ― is…

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  • Society

    China, Great Wall, and Korea

    Benedict Anderson, in the important work on nationalism entitled “Imagined Communities,” discusses the use of media and other symbols and technologies to create nationalism in the 19th century. Just as we know the Great Wall’s “new segments” are a particular extension of China’s nationalist project, other nations have used similar…

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  • East Asia

    Ndi Egwuregwu okwu Nke Koria Merili Ndi Egwu okwu Nkem Great Britain

    Ndi egwuregwu okwu nke Koria  na nke Great Britain ga azo okwa echiechi imara ndi gabaye na uhere nkem izo maka ola edo na olimpiks nkem  enwere na London. Ndi Great Britain  gbara ndi mbu na  mgbakota ha nkem anokpor group A. Ndi Koria gbara ndi abuo na mgbakota ha…

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  • South East Asia

    Indonesia : SMTown’s World Tour ticket sales start this Friday

    Major News in <The Jakarta Post> :  SMTown’s World Tour ticket sales start this Friday Korean pop (K-pop) lovers would be able to book tickets for the upcoming SMTown Live World Tour III from this Friday in Jakarta, local promoters announced on Monday. The concert will feature major Korean artists,…

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  • tobechecked

    Patent dispute between Samsung Electronics and Apple

    A trial on a patent dispute between Samsung Electronics and Apple is underway. Apple may have copied Sony designs and used them for its iPhone, which, if testified in court, would damage Apple’s claim for original designs and its allegations that Samsung stole its intellectual property. This is intern Doria…

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  • Society

    Amb. Oh Joon: Korea Needs to open and connected to world

    Oh Joon, Korean Ambassador to Singapore, said that Korea needs to emulate Singapore in opening up and getting connected to the world. In an exclusive interview with The AsiaN, he noted that both Korea and Singapore have come a long way from their penury ridden stature in the sixties (60s) to this…

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  • Society

    Tourists from North America Die in Vietnam

    Cathy Huynh was a Canadian teacher who taught in Korea died mysteriously from food poisoning. You can contribute to www.gofundme.com/z81i8 to help send her body back home. Kari Joy Bowerman was an American teacher teaching in Korea. You can contribute to her funeral costs at www.giveforward.com/karisarmy. Both were close friends.…

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  • World

    40 Turkish generals forced to retire for plotting coup

    Turkey’s Supreme Military Council forced all of the forty generals and admirals who are currently under arrest as part of ongoing coup investigations to retire in its annual decisions announced on Saturday. The YAŞ meeting concluded on Friday and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with President Abdullah Gül, along…

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  • IT-Science

    Researchers Cheer At Curiosity’s Safe Landing On Mars

    In a photo provided by NASA, the Mars Science Laboratory team in the MSL Mission Support Area reacts after learning the the Curiosity rover has landed safely on Mars and images start coming in at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Mars, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012 in Pasadena, Calif. The MSL…

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