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Culture
[Book review] Identity in Hermann Hesse’s Novels
Demian is a semi-autobiographical story written by Hermann Hesse, published in 1919. The novel is set in Germany, in the decade preceding World War I, and tells of a troubled adolescent’s arrival at self-awareness. Emil Sinclair is his own narrator, describing his personal journey towards a genuine understanding of his…
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East Asia
Trump’s strategy for North Korea
Is President Donald Trump offering a tutorial on how to negotiate with the North Koreans ― reminding them of the riches and rewards awaiting them the moment they enter his magic kingdom? John Bolton, Trump’s national security adviser, came up with something like that in an interview on Fox, the…
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East Asia
Mobile games to bolster popularity of Galaxy Note 9
Samsung Electronics is expanding its partnership with game companies to sell its latest high-end Galaxy Note 9 to tens of millions of domestic and international mobile game players. Samsung said NCSOFT, Korea’s largest game developer widely known for its popular online role-playing game “Lineage,” has been preparing a mobile game…
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East Asia
Students speaking out against sexual harassment from teachers
The #Metoo movement that has been sweeping Korea since January is starting to spread to schools. A girls’ high school in Gwangju is undergoing a police investigation for sexual harassment by teachers. The investigation was launched after the Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education last week found that 180 out of…
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East Asia
Introducing Lisa Witter
Former Magazine N editor and communications manager of the Asia Journalist Association, Lisa Witter, began working at the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games last July as a project director of the NOC/NPC Services communications team. Before receiving an offer from the Tokyo 2020 Organising…
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East Asia
Turkey lira crisis
On August 13, ‘Turkish Lira’ and ‘Turkey’ were ranked as number one and two respectively in the real-time query of the leading portal in Korea, Naver. Two questions are to be asked in this situation. The first one is why did the Turkish Lira suddenly collapse? The other question is…
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World
Arabian Nights and Arabic Novels
One Thousand and One Nights is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition (c. 1706 – c. 1721), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment, and where the most famous Arabic prose of tales was created. In some aspects, we could consider that these…
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East Asia
Arkansas official calls on China, US to double cherish bilateral cooperation
The trade frictions with China initiated by the US administration will hurt other countries, and ultimately lead to a vicious tariff barrier that undermines global trading system, an official with Arkansas state in southern US warned, calling on both sides to double cherish the hard-won cooperation and properly handle the…
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East Asia
Shanghai rolls out policy package to facilitate trade with ‘Belt and Road’ countries
Shanghai, China’s largest port of entry under the free trade agreement (FTA), has simplified the cargo clearance process for imports from the Belt and Road countries, and explored ways to serve origins of emerging industries, so as to gradually lower the trade costs of the Belt and Road countries on…
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East Asia
China’s foreign trade structure further optimized in first seven months
China’s imports and exports went up 8.6 percent year-on-year to 16.72 trillion yuan ($2.45 trillion) in the first seven months of this year, the official with Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced Tuesday quoting customs data. Exports grew 5 percent over the same period of last year to 8.89 trillion yuan…
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