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Politics
Leader of leftist splinter party joins presidential race
Rep. Sim Sang-jung, a leader of a faction that split from the center-left Unified Progressive Party (UPP), announced Sunday that she will run in the December presidential election, pledging efforts to fight for 99 percent of the people. Characterizing the top 1 percent of people as the privileged having control…
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IT-Science
Moving from love-hate to hate-hate
Apple gets serious about reducing Samsung reliance on smartphone chips Samsung Electronics and Apple have been technology’s oddest bedfellows: bitter foes in finished products but indispensible as friends in parts like chips and screens. But with Apple moving quickly to reduce its reliance on Samsung’s semiconductor capability amid an intensifying…
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Business
‘Testosterone is the problem’
If it was called Lehman Sisters, there would have been no global financial crisis in 2008 and the U.S. investment firm would still be around, says Korea International Finance Institute CEO Kim Sang-kyung. Kim, regarded as godmother of women in the financial industry, resorts to the theory of balance to…
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Business
Sense and sensitivity
Does it matter that Kim called Japanese crown prince royal instead of imperial? TOKYO – World Bank President Jim Yong Kim arrived in Tokyo to share ideas with policymakers on how to lift the global economy out of the gutter. However, the Korean-American physician, who took the helm of the…
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Column
Korea, Japan at each other’s throats
LOS ANGELES ― Look before you leap. This is a venerable American saying. Look carefully before you leap emotionally. So if I were one of the good people of the Republic of Korea, for whom my admiration is deep, long-standing and well-known (my Japanese friends understand me well), I would…
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Pakistan irked by shooting of schoolgirl
In a bit of encouraging news out of a nation that has produced few of them, a broad spectrum of Pakistan has become enraged by a Taliban attempt to murder a 14-year-old schoolgirl as she rode a school bus home. The Washington Post reported that the attempted killing “united Pakistanis…
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Column
What can K-pop learn from Psy?
“By satirizing standard K-pop tropes in Gangnam Style, Psy may have subverted K-pop’s chances of making it big in the West,” writes John Seabrook in the Annals of Music section of this week’s New Yorker magazine. Insightful, yes, but true? Not so fast. There are many aspects of the Korean…
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Column
Political experiment in Korea
Koreans are experiencing an extraordinary three-way presidential race among Park Geun-hye of the ruling Senuri Party, Moon Jae-in of the opposition Democratic United Party (DUP) and independent Ahn Cheol-soo. The election is two months away, but it is too early to predict who will be the next president. Polls show…
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Column
[Korea Report] Gamin’s 3rd concert of eight sounds concert series held at hanok in Seoul
Gamin, Korean traditional instrument musician, held her third concert of four concert series. This time, the concert was held in a beautiful Hanok (traditional Korean house) in Seoul, Friday night (October 12). Gamin played three kind of Korean traditional instrument and entertained the audience for a full one hour. She played Piri,…
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Column
Personal blogs turn into best-selling books in Egypt
Blogging has become something we’re really familiar with, especially in the Middle East. Middle East bloggers mainly talk politics, Entertainment, and personal issues and daily problems. But imagine when a girl talks on her blog about her daily adventures in finding her “Future Husband” and then this blog gets turned…
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