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North Korea-U.S. Dialogue Urges South-North Exch...
The agreement between North Korea and the United States announced on February 29 after a third round of bilateral talks is deemed more forward-looking than expecte...
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The Korean Crisis of Authority
Korean society is facing a sudden crisis of authority. The presidential system based on the executive, legislative and judiciary branches of government is being sh...
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13 Years Needed to Open the Park Chung-hee Memor...
The Park Chung-hee Memorial-Library opens today in Sangam-dong, western Seoul. Ground was broken for the memorial honoring President Park in 1999 with the support ...
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Suprapartisan Preparations for Unification
I have just returned from Berlin, where I participated in a forum on common Korean-German perspectives on unification. It was jointly organized by Korea’s National Unification Advisory Council, an establishment mandated by the Co...
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Occupy ‘New Capitalism’
Diamond and graphite both consist of carbon. But the two minerals are quite different in spite of their identical chemical composition. Diamond is the hardest mineral known to man while graphite is one of the softest. A transparen...
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We Need More Women in Politics
The quota system for women is an affirmative action to realize gender equality by setting a quota for hiring and promoting women in various sectors, including politics, economy, education and employment. As an institutional device...
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The Legacy of Mollendorff in Leipzig
Last week, the exhibition “Korea Rediscovered!” opened at the Grassi Museum of Ethnography in Leipzig in the northeastern part of Germany. The city was one of the venues for a touring exhibition of selected Korean objects from 1...
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Economic Outlook of North Korea in 2012
In recent years, North Korea has calibrated its actions to become a socialist economic power by 2012, the centenary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, founder of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The capital city of Pyongyang ...
Korea-China-Japan Free Trade Agreement: Prospect...
Despite fiscal crises in their export markets, Korea, China and Japan have maintained steady growth in the past few years. As of 2010, the combined gross domestic product (GDP) of the three countries amounted to US$12.39 trillion,...
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Two Key Persons Behind the Birth of 50-year-old ...
Activity around Ulsan seemed unusual in early 1962. Large ships loaded with machinery and construction materials went in and out of the coastal town, which didn’t even have any notable port facilities. The former Soviet Union gre...
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‘A Hearth Runs beneath These Homes’
Joseon, a fiercely reserved country located on the tip of the Eurasian continent, had a reputation for rebuffing foreigners, barring them from setting foot on its soil. However, despite its self-imposed isolationist policy, a cons...
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Peter Beck: “Every cloud has a silver lining.”
The scene was a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations’ Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs in February 2009. It was a time when the North Korean front was looking increasingly bleak for Washington.
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