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Politics
‘Gangnam Style’ offers Korea PR opportunity
A U.S. diplomat thinks that now is the time for Seoul to focus on further raising Korea’s global profile as an attractive tourist and investment destination because the Korean wave or “hallyu” knows no bounds. “Seoul has become a much more cosmopolitan and global type of city as well as…
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Business
Sharp pullback in growth
GDP expands at slowest pace since 3rd quarter of 2009 Korea’s growth has slowed to its lowest rate since the depths of the global financial crisis, raising investor concerns that the economy has yet to bottom out and more policy action will be needed to halt the skid. The Korean…
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Column
Moon Sun-myung’s legacy
Probably no Korean has inspired more controversy for so many very different reasons than did the Rev. Moon Sun-myung. As a religious figure and a tycoon, he moved from cult to commerce as if they were interrelated, all in accordance with the will of the God who had placed him…
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Column
Korea-Japan: enough is enough!
Enough is enough! Obviously, the political leadership in Tokyo and Seoul never learned about the First Rule of Holes: when you find yourself in one, stop digging. Each side seems to be going out of its way to make a bad situation worse, even while providing private assurances that it…
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North Korea to reduce China reliance
China and North Korea say their relationship is as close as “lips and teeth.” The analogy is discomfiting in Seoul given current trends in bilateral trade, with some concerned that Beijing will simply swallow up its neighbor. The dependence doesn’t sit well in Pyongyang, analysts say. They predict that the…
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IT-Science
US experts argue Apple is innovation killer
Experts say US firm resorts to frivolous litigation to smolder smart creativity Even U.S. officials and patent experts now see Apple’s bid to ban the sale of Samsung Electronics smartphones as detrimental to keeping the information and technology industry innovative. Against this background, U.S. Judge Lucy Koh is being asked…
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World
Hillary With East Timor President Taur Ruak
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, shakes hands with East Timor President Taur Matan Ruak at the Presidential Palace in Dili, East Timor Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in East Timor to offer the small half-island nation support as it ends…
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World
Putin Is An Outdoorsman Enjoying Motorized Hang Glider
Russian President Vladimir Putin, second left) speaks with ornithologists after a flight in a motorized hang glider on the Yamal Peninsula, in Russia Wednesday Sept. 5, 2012. Putin took part in a flight as part of a program devised by environmentalists to lead a flock of endangered Siberian white cranes,…
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South East Asia
Trade Ministers Pose For Camera At APEC Summit In Vladivostok
Peru’s Trade minister Jose Luis Silva, fifth from right, breaks from a group photo of the Trade ministers from Trans-Pacific Countries at the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. Pictured from left, Mexico’s Secretary of Economy,Bruno Ferrari, Australia’s Craig Emerson, Brunei’s Lim Jock Seng, Chile’s Foreign Minister,…
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Column
[Indonesian Report] Half of world languages feared to “die” by end of this century
Koichiro Matsuura, Former Director General of UNESCO expressed the significant of Mother languages in his message for the International Mother Language Day on 21 February 2007. “It is in the mother tongue that we utter our first words and express individual thoughts best. It is the foundations upon which all…
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