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‘Pieta’
Last Saturday night I went to a movie theater near my house to watch “Pieta,” the winner of the top Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival. It’s a small cinema with fewer than 200 seats. I found a few dozen people in the theater and luckily no one…
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Deadlocked Korea-Japan ties
Two countries need dialogue. Japan should look honestly at history to clear the past. After President Lee Myung-bak visited Dokdo, Korea’s easternmost islets, on Aug. 10, Tokyo recalled its ambassador to Korea, Masatoshi Muto, and announced it would take the issue of Dokdo to the International Court of Justice. Japanese…
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Multiracial students
Cultural diversity should be accepted broadly Until a decade ago, many Koreans were not familiar with the term “multicultural.’’ And it was not easy to see students from multicultural families in schools. More recently, however, the number of multiracial students has risen rapidly, offering both challenges and opportunities to our…
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How to become rich by loafing around
After years of research I’ve come to the conclusion that there is a way to become rich without working strenuously; to be born of a rich family holding silver chopsticks. It’s really easy: you don’t have to do anything though your parents had to work strenuously. Sadly we common people…
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Foreign policy mirages
UNITED NATIONS ― The killing of the American Ambassador to Libya John Christopher Stevens, along with three other American diplomats, the storming of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt and the tearing down of the flag replacing the stars and stripes with a black banner, all allegedly in response to…
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[Indonesia Report] Indonesian migrant workers fear of Jakarta Airport
Indonesia as a developing country with more than 230 million population is home for many of migrant workers. Every year Indonesia sends hundreds of thousands of Migrant workers to such countries as Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and many other countries. Indonesian even call the migrant workers as…
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Territorial disputes
Both Japan and China should exercise restraint Territorial disputes between China and Japan over a group of islands in the East China Sea have reached a dangerous level amid a slew of anti-Japan demonstrations in China. The Associated Press reported that protests spread to at least two dozen Chinese cities…
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Mideast chaos shows need for American energy
NEW YORK ― America’s economic well-being is at the mercy of the most thin-skinned hotheads on Earth. The tragic and outrageous assassination of American officials in Libya and the vicious attacks on U.S. embassies in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen dramatize the enormous risk of depending on petroleum from a region…
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Annual Korea-Yonsei sports event is biggest festival for both universities
When you ask Koreans or foreigners who know South Korea pretty well on which are the best universities in Korea, they will tell you about SKY. SKY stands for Seoul National University, Korea University and Yonsei University. From the three universities above, two – Korea University and Yonsei University – are private universities. Both…
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Hazard of Internet age
One of the biggest and most recalcitrant problems in Nigeria today is the rapid disappearance of a reading culture. Many people barely read even newspapers, preferring instead to spend their time chatting on social networking sites. And others use it for fraudulent and heinous acts. It is difficult to escape…
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