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East Asia
Canada: South Korea’s underestimated friend
The head of a Seoul-based group called on the governments of South Korea and Canada to forge a stronger partnership, saying their bilateral relationship is underutilized. Rhee Tshang-chu, president of the Korean Global Foundation (KGF), noted that the significance of this relationship has been understated probably because the two Koreas…
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LSIS beats Hyosung to HVDC deal
Electrical component maker LSIS said Wednesday it has acquired advanced technology for an electric power transmission system at the expense of rival Hyosung. Both firms tendered bids to a joint venture between the state-run Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) and French energy company Alstom called KEPCO-Alstom Power Electronics Systems (KAPES)…
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Samsung eyes business users, targets RIM
Samsung Electronics has been trading barbs with Apple over intellectual property on mobile Internet devices. The industry foe it really wants to beat, however, is Research in Motion, the Canadian maker of the iconic BlackBerry, according to company sources. As the global market for smartphones and tablets has shaped up…
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East Asia
‘Obama to follow Park on NK’
U.S. President Barack Obama will follow the lead of incoming President Park Geun-hye in handling North Korea, a U.S. expert said, amid concerns over possible provocations by the Kim Jong-un regime. Victor Cha, Korea chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Pyongyang put Washington in a “deep…
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NK leader orders foreign-language signs
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s education abroad may be starting to show. During a recent inspection of a hospital, Kim called for signs to be written in other languages, Pyongyang’ s state media reported. While visiting the Taesongsan General Hospital, currently under construction, Kim noted a sign written with Korean…
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Imperfect multiculturalism
This is the eighth in a series of letters by experts to President-elect Park Geun-hye. – ED. Dear Madam President-elect, I am from the Philippines and have been living here for four years as wife and mother in a multicultural family. We at the Korean Institute for Healthy Family’s Danuri…
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SNU professor to become dean at Ethiopian university
Lee Moo-ha, professor at Seoul National University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is to become the dean of the School of Agriculture at Adama Science and Technology University in Ethiopia. The 65-year-old professor, who will leave for Ethiopia on Jan. 29, will serve as a professor to the university…
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East Asia
Don’t be duped by tricky statistics
We live in the information age; the Internet overflows with a limitless stream of data and statistics. Everyday newspapers and online media outlets spit out news stories based on statistics produced by various institutions. But it’s hard to know whether the data is true or false. They say: “Numbers don’t…
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East Asia
Original paintings of Korean cartoons on exhibit
Korean cartoons, better known as “manhwa,” began with the influence of the Western world but they have later grown with a unique style that emphasizes such Korean traditional aesthetic elements as margins and lines. The Korean cartoon industry is now enjoying a golden age with the surge in popularity of…
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