• Society

    Why Korea wants Nobel Prize for literature

    The Seoul Literary Society’s latest meeting last Monday was a thought-provoking one. Novelist Kim Young-ha said the craving for a Korean Nobel Prize winner in literature is Koreans’ innate craving for recognition. “Sooner or later, people will begin to ask if a Korean national can be the Nobel Prize winner…

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  • East Asia

    National Korean Dress Exhibition Held In Pyongyang

    In this Sept. 19, 2012 photo, North Korean children perform at the 10th national Korean dress exhibition at Central Youth Hall in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korean women perform during a fashion show at the 10th national Korean dress exhibition at Central Youth Hall in Pyongyang, North Korea. <AP Photo/Jon…

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  • Politics

    Guess who is in old photos

    The way a girl in the left photo poses indicates she is used to being photographed. The big brim circling the round hat she is wearing suggests she is too modern for the black-and-white photo. The girl is Park Geun-hye in her teens. The boy at center has chubby cheeks…

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  • Society

    Foreigners dance to ‘Gangnam Style’

    “Oppan Gangnam Style!” shouted foreigners who danced to the song “Gangnam Style” in the middle of Gwanghwamun Plaza in central Seoul, Friday. About 70 foreigners danced to rapper-singer Psy’s hit song which has gone viral online and hit the billboard charts in the United States, during a dance session held…

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  • Society

    Long-term vision needed on East China Sea disputes

    Taipei ― Korea, China and Japan should take a pragmatic, long-term approach to boundary disputes in the East China Sea, experts said Friday, warning that domestic politics can rapidly escalate tensions. The sea is the stage for complex debates over geographic features including Ieodo, a submerged rock claimed by both…

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  • Relief food sent to NK

    A private citizens group sent aid to North Korea, Friday, marking the first cross-border food shipment of flour following the latest flood damage in the North. It also comes after Pyongyang’s refusal to accept Seoul’s offer for the provision of instant noodles and medicine last week. World Vision, a Christian…

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  • Column

    Why Psy and not JYP?

    I just watched Psy perform live in New York City’s Rockefeller Center on NBC’s Today Show, a venue usually reserved for the most popular of international singers. I mean, you can’t get much more mainstream than that in the U.S. Wait. And the song just hit No. 1 in iTunes…

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  • Column

    Time for balance

    Thanks to the current inundation of innovative smart devices riding the World Wide Web and technological breakthroughs, we enjoy the social media era based on the Internet where creative and tech-savvy people can succeed overnight with their own killer gadgets or content. But you had better understand or have lawyers…

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  • China-Japan row and Korea

    New security order in N-E Asia poses challenge China and Japan are beginning to show two-track tactics toward their latest territorial row over a group of islands in the East China Sea. On the one hand, China is taking a hard-line; a flotilla of 16 Chinese surveillance ships on Tuesday…

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  • East Asia

    [The AsiaN Video for Indonesian] CJ Bekerjasama Dengan Soho China

    Halo! Saya Meidyana Rayana dari Indonesia. Berikut adalah berita mengenai kerjasama CJ Group Korea dan SOHO China. Grup CJ membentuk kerjasama dengan perusahaan pengembang real estate terbesar China, SOHO pada Selasa kemarin untuk memfasilitasi perluasan bisnis makanannya di pasar terbesar Asia. Perwakilan CJ Foodville mengatakan, mereka menandatangani perjanjinan dengan Soho…

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