• East Asia

    ‘Who’ll Stop The Rain?’

    Citizens sit outside a flooded shop in Tianjin, north China, July 26, 2012. A downpour battered Tianjin on Thursday, flooding many downtown streets and vehicles. <Xinhua/Yue Yuewei> news@theasian.asia

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  • Society

    7th Korea-Spain Forum opens in Seoul

    ‘Learning from Each Other, Sharing with Each Other’  The 7th Korea-Spain fourm opened Thursday (July 26) for two-day meeting under the theme of “learning from each other, sharing with each other” at Hotel Shilla in downtown Seoul. The forum started in 2003, as a venue for exchangeing opinions among the leading figures of the…

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  • Culture

    BoA returns with ‘best’ record yet

    BoA, one of K-pop’s bestselling solo artists, has returned with her seventh Korean studio album, “Only One.” The 25-year-old star says it is her best work to date, from which she draws the most satisfaction. “They’re my songs but to be honest, there are some that I skip, too,” she…

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  • IT-Science

    LG’s mobile biz to turn around

    LG Electronics fell behind in the smartphone era but seems to have finally rebounded. The latest data clearly shows that the flagship firm of LG Group is catching up fast. Despite earlier negative forecasts amid sluggish handset sales, its operating profit for the April-June period increased by 120.5 percent to…

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  • Business

    Renault Samsung boasts of quality services

    Renault Samsung Motors (RSM) has set a milestone by topping the annual Customer Satisfaction Index for 10 straight years through 2011 in the survey by automotive research firm Marketing Insight. The automaker is also found to have received the least complaints in terms of after-sales customer services, according to a…

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  • ‘NK Army chief fired for defiant attitudes’

    North Korean leader Kim Jong-un recently dismissed the reclusive regime’s Army chief for his refusal to cooperate in a move to tighten his grip on the North’s military, a ruling party lawmaker said Thursday, citing information provided by the country’s spy agency. “Gen. Ri Yong-ho appears to have been forced…

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  • Business

    Conrad challenges Lotte, Shilla Hotel

    “Watch out Lotte and Shilla! Here we come.’’ This is the message sent out by Nils-Arne Schroeder, general manager of the Conrad Hotel Seoul, which will open in Yeouido in November. He said the Hilton Hotel Group’s premier luxury brand will steal guests from Lotte and Shilla, as well as…

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  • People

    Stars to carry flags

    The details to the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games have still yet to emerge, but we know who will carry their national flags. Among the 204 national teams, world-class athletes will represent their countries as the flagbearers. Carrying the South Korean flag at the opening ceremony Friday…

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  • Society

    Growth can go with environment protection

    Twenty years ago, when world leaders met in Rio de Janeiro for the Earth Summit, 5.5 billion people inhabited our planet. Nearly half were living in extreme poverty. Today, even with the global population exceeding 7 billion, the proportion is down to just over one quarter. Over the same period,…

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  • Concerns about blackouts

    Key lies in saving power, reasonable price system The whole nation seems to have fallen ill from the midsummer heat. But officials at Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) say a temperature rise of one degree sends a terrible chill down their spines. An unexpected blackout last September forced some KEPCO…

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