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National Strategy for Post-Division Process
The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il was electrifying news as the year ended, but it hardly alarmed South Koreans. They have become accustomed to dramatic ...
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Korean Capitalism Stands at Crossroads
Some say that the world economy will remain gripped by slow growth and instability over the next two or three years while others say the turmoil could last up to 1...
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Policy Reform and Happy Society
Bhutan’s newly married royal couple made a highly-publicized six-day state visit to Japan last month, drawing huge popularity among the Japanese people. A yo...
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Post-Kim Jong-il Crisis Management
Upon the sudden death of Kim Jong-il, chairman of North Korea’s National Defense Commission, uneasiness prevails both at home and abroad about the possibility that the Pyongyang hierarchy will become rife with unpredictable chang...
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Chaebol Urged to Lead Moral Evolution of Capital...
In early January of 2008, about one month before Lee Myung-bak’s presidential inauguration, I wrote in this newspaper that Korea was changing from a “hungry” society to an “angry” society. The analysis referred to the nation’...
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New Communication Culture and Democratic Communit...
Thanks to remarkable progress in communications technology, connections between individuals have become staggeringly fast and frequent. Yet, we wonder whether the new age of digital communication has pushed people into even greate...
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Korea’s Intangible Heritage for Humanity
Everyone has a memorable moment that cannot be forgotten. For me, a resident of Gangneung, November 25, 2005 was the once-in-a-lifetime moment. On that day, UNESCO in Paris decided to place the Dano Festival of Gangneung on the ro...
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North Korea-China Treaty of Friendship: New Impl...
The year 2011 marked the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between North Korea and China. In July 2011, Chinese Deputy Premier Zhang Dejiang visited Pyongyang to represent Beijing in c...
The Kim Jong-un Risk and the Korean Peninsula
The Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party has obviously become the top decision-making body of North Korea as a new era under Kim Jong-un gets under way. The commission holds all of the keys to power in its effort to ...
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Renaissance Man: UNESCO Marks 250th Birth Annive...
“The greatest scholar of Practical Learning (silhak) in the late Joseon period.” “The author of over 500 books.” “The architect of Hwaseong Fortress in Suwon.” “Inventor of the geojunggi (heavy stone lifte...
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Readying for Rapid Unification Process and Post-...
The process of German unification was indeed a huge tsunami. The Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, and in less than a year Germany was officially unified. The German governments on both sides of the wall initially took extreme...
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Kim Sung-hwan: “Nuclear terrorism should be pre...
“Nuclear terrorist attacks would result in utter devastation. The international community should work together to prevent them at all costs,” said Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan. In an interview with the Yonhap News Agency, held...
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