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Business
Best way to make Chinese brand names
Effective Chinese character naming is important to make successful inroads into China market. In a report on how to make Chinese brand names, Kotra Beijing Office said Sunday (July 29) that the brand names in Chinese should contain the meanings that can reflect Chinese culture and future trend as is…
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East Asia
Cooking Nanta
This is Korean famous Cooking Nanta performing in Hanoi last week to celebrate 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Vietnam-Korea. The AsiaN Editor news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Japan: Death rate among handicapped people in tsunami 2.5-fold larger
News is <Kyodonews>: Death rate among handicapped people in tsunami 2.5-fold larger The death rate among handicapped people living in coastal areas of Miyagi Prefecture when the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster struck was 2.5 times higher than the overall average for residents, a support group for them said…
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Society
Radical Islamic winter to come: Israeli deputy foreign minister
A golden rule followed by diplomats is this: don’t comment officially about ongoing issues. However, Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel Daniel Ayalon was different. Speaking with journalists Thursday in Seoul he talked candidly and directly about Syria, Iran and North Korea. He offered incisive observations regarding the modus operandi of…
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Society
Kenya to open cultural center
The Kenyan Ambassador to Korea learned a hard lesson in June. Korean Air released a new advertisement for the launch of its Incheon-Nairobi flight in which Kenyans were described as “indigenous people full of primitive energy.” “I got so many phone calls that day, so I had to call Korean…
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Business
‘Gori No. 1 reactor is safe to operate’
The No. 1 reactor of the Gori nuclear plant in Busan should resume operations to meet surging electricity demand amid the scorching heat wave gripping the nation, according to the state-run operator of Korea’s 21 atomic reactors. There has been a growing call for the reactor to be made operational…
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IT-Science
LG Uplus critical about Kakao’s free voice services
It was just months ago when LG Uplus CEO Lee Sang-chul called for mobile-phone carriers to embrace the free voice calls pushed by Kakao Talk, an immensely popular smartphone messaging service. Now, Lee sounds less impressed with Kakao’s mobile voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) offerings, criticizing the voice quality and…
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Column
Leadership secrets
At a recent seminar with senior journalists in Seoul, a leading presidential contender of the Saenuri Party, Rep. Park Geun-hye, was asked to characterize the May 16 military coup d’etat of 1961, through which her late father took power. In her response, she defended the coup as “inevitable and the…
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Column
Women in North Korea
In most post-socialist nations, the collapse of the state socialist system had a rather ambiguous impact on the social and economic position of women. Clearly the advent of the market economy brought with it some advantages, especially in those countries where its introduction brought an economic boom. Women often have…
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New signs in N. Korea
It’s official now: North Korea is changing, or at least is trying to change. That is, if the report by the National Intelligence Service submitted to the National Assembly Thursday is any guide. The spy agency’s intelligence capability has often been in doubt, but we hope the NIS is right…
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