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Society
S-N team eyed for 2018 Olympics
Contacts will be made soon, says PyeongChang organizer The chief organizer of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics said Sunday that he intends to involve North Korea in the games as much as possible. “We will try to have North Korean athletes train together with our athletes and form a unified…
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Politics
Young NK defector beats ‘English stress’
Hong Sung-il, a North Korean defector, found himself alienated in his first English class on the first day of high school in Seoul in 2000. Hong was 17 then. “I had never studied English before,” said Hong, a 29-year-old Yonsei University graduate with a bachelor’s in psychology, in an interview…
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South East Asia
India, Angsa Hitam Halo! Saya Meidyana Rayana dari Indonesia. Saat ini bermagang untuk Asian Journalist Association. Berita-berita politik, sosial maupun ekonomi dapat anda baca di artikel-artikel The AsiaN. Salah satunya adalah berita berikut. Pakar ekonomi terkemuka, Andy Xie, mantan pimpinan ekonomis Asia Pasifik, Morgan Stanley, mengatakan bahwa India dan Australia merupakan dua negara…
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East Asia
Korea te poneroti notu projatir abishkar Nomoskar,ami Sudhanya Ghosh,Asia Journalist Association,AJA. Goto brihospotibar korear upokuloborti sumudre bigyanira poneroti notun shamudrik projati abishkar koren.jeju dipeke ghire thaka somudrer shath kilometer gobhire probal o pathorer modhye kakra o chingri-r ai notun projati guli pawa jaye. National Institute of Biological Resources choi mash dhore ai gobeshonati chalye.protisthaner pokhho theke…
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Business
Credit card use tops 60% of spending
Koreans’ credit card usage accounted for more than 60 percent of the nation’s total private spending as more people use plastic to pay for goods and services, according latest data, Monday. According to the Credit Finance Association, a lobby group of credit card issuers, a total of 1.1 trillion won…
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Politics
Ahn steps forward presidential bid
A new book, “Ahn Cheol-soo’s Thoughts” was released Thursday detailing the information technology mogul-turned-professor’s thoughts about key campaign issues, including unemployment among young people, education, school bullying, North Korea and the Jeju naval base plan. It was written by Jae Jeong-im, a professor of Semyung University Graduate School of Journalism,…
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Politics
Kim shows departure in leadership style
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un recently made a surprise visit to Pyongyang’s main airport to inspect a renovation project, a report said Thursday, in what could be another example of his emerging leadership style. The inspection by Kim, who was handed power following the death of his father Kim Jong-il…
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Politics
US saw NK involvement in KAL bombing: dossier
The United States has made public documents related to its investigation of the 1987 bombing of a South Korean passenger jet, which found North Korea to be behind the act, it emerged Thursday. Posted on the U.S. State Department, the dossier backs Seoul’s finding that the mid-air bombing of the…
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Society
Scientists discover 15 species new to Korea
Scientists discovered 15 marine species that are new to Korean coastal waters, the Ministry of Environment said Thursday. The newly-spotted species including shrimps, crabs and lobsters were found on coral and in rock crevices 60 meters below sea level around Jeju Island. The National Institute of Biological Resources conducted the…
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Society
Adventure to a remote island
Leaving on a journey all on your own to an island far away from home is an exciting but risky adventure, especially when the island is not somewhere you can easily get to. How would you feel if you were stranded on an island far off the coast by accident…
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