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East Asia
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
South Korean violinist Jenny Bae enchants her global fans
On their theater of dreams in (Old Trafford) the fans of Manchester United football club, sing for glory. They used to chant for the players in the historic stadium of Manchester city, England. But the South Korean violinist Jenny Bae, who brought the tunes of blue skies and white clouds,…
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Smaller Cheong Wa Dae
What matters most is to select ‘good people’ President-elect Park Geun-hye’s vision for her new presidential office structure, unveiled Monday, can be summed up as slimmed down and simplified. This direction is reflected well in the fact that the title of the bureaucratic unit at Cheong Wa Dae will be…
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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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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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