• East Asia

    Foreign Journalists Feel What Division Is At DMZ

    Foreign journalists pose with a military police when they visited Dorasan Station, located nearest to the  DMZ dividing South and North Korea, in Paju, Geyong-gi province, as part of their DMZ tour Sunday (June 24). The foreign journalists visited Seoul to attend the International Media Conference held at Yonsei University on June 22-24.…

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  • Visa rules for Chinese tourists to be eased

    The Ministry of Justice said Tuesday that it will allow more Chinese nationals to obtain multiple-entry visas or enter the country without a visa from Aug. 1. “We are improving the visa system to attract more Chinese tourists to the country. We expect the new rules to help boost the…

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  • Society

    Neolithic farm field found in Gangwon Province

    Researchers have found evidence proving that farming took place in Korea 5,000 years ago. The National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage said Tuesday that archaeological traces presumed to be East Asia’s first Neolithic remains of an agricultural field have been found in a northern province. The discovery in Goseong, Gangwon…

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  • Politics

    Potemkin village in Pyongyang?

    Sleek and modern: The words are rarely used to describe North Korea. Yet the latest addition to the Pyongyang skyline, a set of new apartments in the central Mansudae district appears from the outside to be just that. But while the North touts it as progress, the jury is still…

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  • Politics

    China-NK economic ties benefit S. Korea

    MANILA –– Growing economic cooperation between China and North Korea could lead to the latter’s economic reform and eventual opening up of its economy to the outside world, experts said. “(South Korea) doesn’t have to look at the strengthening economic relationship between Beijing and Pyongyang only as a threat since…

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  • Mental health checkup

    Changes needed in perception, infrastructure Korea has one of the world’s highest suicide rates, scores among the lowest on happiness indexes, a serious overdrinking problem, and ominous school violence. A word that best sums up such a society is “abnormal.” So it seems only natural, if long belated, that the…

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  • Column

    US-Burma ties: from isolation to engagement

    After years of diplomatic tension over isolation and sanctions, U.S.-Burma relations improved in recent months. What prospects does this rapprochement have? The relationship between the United States and Burma was mostly cordial in the years following Burma’s independence from the British in 1948. It was strained by the Burmese military…

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  • Business

    Samsung wins $2.1 bil. power plant order

    Samsung Engineering, one of Koreas leading industrial plant builders, said Tuesday that it has won a $2.1 billion project to construct a power plant in Kazakhstan. Under the deal with Balkhash Thermal Power Plant (BTPP), the engineering firm will build a coal-powered power plant. It was the first construction order…

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  • Column

    Analyze this for Dec. 19 poll

    As usual at this time of the year, the outbreak of the three-year Korean War is being remembered. The war was started by a surprise attack by North Korea on the morning of June 25, 1950, and killed millions of civilians and soldiers. Sixty two years later today, the Korean…

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  • West Asia

    Syrian Civilians Wound From the Forces

    In this citizen journalism image provided by Baba Amro In The Revolution’s Eye, Sunday, June 24, 2012, a Syrian injured woman sits on the ground at makeshift hospital after she was injured from Syrian forces shelling, at Kfar Aaya area, in Homs province, central Syria. The Red Cross president says…

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