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Abe’s Dangerous Tango with Kim Jong-un
North Korea and Japan form a peculiar couple, with Pyongyang slapping in Tokyo’s face whenever the latter is in the mood to cry. When Japan badly needs to im...
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Productivity Holds Key to Coping with Weak Yen
Quite unexpectedly, the nation has been thrown into confusion over allegations of presidential spokesman Yoon Chang-jung’s sexual misconduct during President...
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Make the Best of the North’s Unusual Proposal f...
South and North Korea are set to hold a ministerial meeting, the first since the Park Geun-hye administration was inaugurated in February. When North Korea offered...
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North Korea and the Chinese Press
In August 2004, a researcher of the Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences drew attention with a rare essay harshly critical of North Korea. In the essay, contributed to a journal named Strategies and Management, he argued that North ...
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Role of Financing in Creative Economy
Korea has attained remarkable economic growth by using imitation to gain competitiveness. But a copycat economy is no longer a viable growth strategy. The number of foreign products to imitate has gradually decreased, while imitat...
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‘Not-Mom-Like Moms’ Are Coming
Here is a quiz. If the most predominant businesses in Daechi-dong, dubbed the “Mecca of private education” in Gangnam, southern Seoul, are private cram schools, what would be the second most thriving businesses? If you think the...
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Prehistoric Petroglyphs Need Urgent Preservation...
The debate over the preservation of the Neolithic carvings on Bangudae boulder, submerged and eroding eight months a year, is showing no signs of progress despite the new administration’s apparent resolution to protect them. Ther...
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China’s Policy Shift after North Korea’s Third...
North Korea launched a long-range rocket on December 12, 2012 and conducted its third nuclear test on February 12 this year at its testing ground in Punggye-ri, Kilju County, North Hamgyong Province. The North’s first nuclear tes...
Ways to Improve the Foreign Workers Employment S...
Korea’s labor policy divides foreign workers into two categories ― professional and non-professional ― and provides them with different employment opportunities and hiring procedures. Currently, some 530,000 foreigners are stay...
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Suncheon Garden Expo Harmonizes Nature with Huma...
The International Garden Exposition 2013 will be held in the Suncheon Bay area, 415 kilometers south of Seoul, for 183 days from April 20 to October 20, under the theme of “Nature and Humans, Community and the World, Sharing and ...
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Koreans Ate Red Kimchi as Early as the 17th Cent...
The 18th century scholar Yi Deok-mu wrote, “My legs feel as languid and wilted as green onion kimchi.” In the “Anthology of Poetry by Dasan,” Jeong Yak-yong (1762-1836), a great thinker and scientist widely known by his pen na...
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Lee Sang-hwa: “My goal is to come first in the ...
Before meeting Lee Sang-hwa, the 24-year-old “queen of the ice,” at Taereung, I had requested that she wear “something pretty,” instead of her training uniform. It was a week after Lee had won her second consecutive gold medal...
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