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    South Korea’s footballers ready for Brazil

    When South Korea faces Brazil at Old Trafford in Wednesday’s semifinal, football fans around the world will be watching to see whether they can provide yet another surprise. “We will put out our best line up against Brazil,” Korea manager Hong Myung-bo said at a media conference in London, Tuesday.…

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    From ‘Gangnam’ to US, video goes viral

    Korean pop singer PSY’s new song “Gangnam Style” is capturing the world’s attention with its wacky music video. The title track of his sixth studio album has topped various online charts including Melon and Naver music for three consecutive weeks since its release on July 15. On YouTube, over 15…

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    Photo warnings to be put cigarette packs

    Photos of body parts afflicted by smoking related diseases will replace the current written warning on cigarette packs from as early as next year. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Monday that it was seeking to revise the National Health Promotion Law to curb the nation’s high incidence of…

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  • 7 in 10 multicultural students see themselves as ‘pure Korean’

    Seven out of 10 children from multiracial families identify themselves as Korean, the latest study for better understanding of biracial families showed. The survey by the National Youth Policy Institute found that 73.4 percent of 1,502 biracial children responded that they’re a Korean citizen rather than a national of the…

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    China, Great Wall, and Korea

    Benedict Anderson, in the important work on nationalism entitled “Imagined Communities,” discusses the use of media and other symbols and technologies to create nationalism in the 19th century. Just as we know the Great Wall’s “new segments” are a particular extension of China’s nationalist project, other nations have used similar…

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    Amb. Oh Joon: Korea Needs to open and connected to world

    Oh Joon, Korean Ambassador to Singapore, said that Korea needs to emulate Singapore in opening up and getting connected to the world. In an exclusive interview with The AsiaN, he noted that both Korea and Singapore have come a long way from their penury ridden stature in the sixties (60s) to this…

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    Tourists from North America Die in Vietnam

    Cathy Huynh was a Canadian teacher who taught in Korea died mysteriously from food poisoning. You can contribute to www.gofundme.com/z81i8 to help send her body back home. Kari Joy Bowerman was an American teacher teaching in Korea. You can contribute to her funeral costs at www.giveforward.com/karisarmy. Both were close friends.…

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  • SNU to offer scholarships to students from overseas

    Seoul National University (SNU) will provide scholarships to 332 students from China, Mongolia, Vietnam and other developing countries beginning from the fall semester, the school said Sunday. The SNU Office of International Affairs said that it will offer each student a 25 million won ($22,050) scholarship to study at the…

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    Korea beats Britain to reach 1st Olympic semifinal

    Taegeuk Warriors to meet Brazil Wednesday South Korea defeated Team Great Britain 5-4 in a dramatic penalty shootout Sunday (KST) to reach the Olympic semifinals after the game finished 1-1 following extra time. This is the first time the Taegeuk Warriors have advanced to this stage of the football competition…

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  • NK reports 169 killed and hundreds missing in floods

    A total of 169 people were killed and 400 others missing in heavy downpours that swept through large parts of North Korea in recent weeks, the country’s media said Saturday. The downpours between late June and the end of July also left 144 people injured and some 212,200 others homeless,…

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