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Regional role of Korea
Nation should at least be mediator, if not balancer Recently, the United States and China have sometimes competed, and sometimes cooperated with each other on the international stage. In the eyes of most, if not all observers, the G2 nations competed more than they cooperated around the ASEAN Regional Forum…
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Lifestyle
BoA, queen of K-pop, returns with new album
Title track ‘Only One’ composed, written by 25-year-old singer Trailblazing K-pop singer BoA has been better known in recent months as a sharp-eyed judge following a stint last year on SBS’ “K-pop Star,” a popular audition program. But with a new studio album out next week she will bid to…
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Society
Suh vs. Oh
KAIST chief rejects board chairman’s call for resignation KAIST President Suh Nam-pyo rejected calls from the school’s board to resign voluntarily Monday, claiming the demand was a politically motivated attempt masterminded by senior education officials who dislike him. He criticized the board’s Chairman Oh Myung for leading the move to…
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Business
Property-rich celebrities saddled with huge debt
Celebrities are envied for owning expensive buildings in rich neighborhoods. Some may live in the lap of luxury but behind the gaudy exteriors a closer look at the books shows not all is necessarily well and good. Bad luck seems to have some stars sinking in debt with sky-high mortgages…
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Politics
May 16, 1961 coup was ‘inevitable’
Rep. Park defends father’s legacy but a tad less strongly Rep. Park Geun-hye of the ruling Saenuri Party, the current frontrunner presidential candidate, defended the May 16, 1961 military coup by her father Park Chung-hee, describing it as an “inevitable choice.” Park dismissed Ahn Cheol-soo, a computer vaccine maker whose…
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Politics
N. Korean military chief relieved
North Korea said Monday it had relieved military chief Ri Yong-ho, a key aide to leader Kim Jong-un, of all his posts due to “illness” ― a move likely to significantly impact Pyongyang’s power structure. The news raised eyebrows as Ri, 69, had been among the top of a small…
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Business
Samsung, Apple shares ‘decoupling’
The stock prices of Samsung Electronics and Apple, which used to move in similar patterns, have started to decouple. The world’s two leading smartphone manufacturers have moved in an opposite direction since early June with Apple shares jumping about 5 percent with Samsung’s plunging about 9 percent. The results can…
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IT-Science
Samsung, LG in legal tussle
12 ex-officials charged with technology theft Samsung Display vowed Monday to continue its legal fight with LG Display after the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office charged 11 former senior and low-ranking technicians over involvement in the leak of cutting-edge OLED technology to LG. “This is intolerable. All key OLED technologies were…
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Column
Unified system of Romanization
Quietly, ever so quietly, displeasure with the current Romanization system of Korean is seeping into the news. The issue stands with Chinese characters as the most contested Korean-language issue of the last 50 years. It stirs passions and sets groups of language experts against each other. Why is this so,…
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East Asia
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