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Current and former officials at the Korean Federation for Environmental Movement have been indicted for corruption. The amount involved is in the hundreds of millions. This is something that must neve
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2008.11.14 16:04
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The administration and ruling party are pushing to have the National Assembly ratify the South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement and the Democratic and other parties are calling for a renegotiation of t
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2008.11.14 16:03
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The Lee Myung-bak administration’s foreign policy and North Korean policy have been about chaos and failure, from their strategy stages to execution. The result has been that Seoul has less say
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2008.11.07 18:05
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The government has essentially removed regulations completely in the capital region. They have enabled the free building and expansion of factories within industrial parks in the region, and it is sai
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2008.11.07 18:04
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In his administrative policy speech on next year’s budget plan in front of the National Assembly yesterday, President Lee Myung-bak called for cooperation across party lines and the participatio
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2008.10.31 16:34
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The National Human Rights Commission of Korea has concluded that the police used excessive force in putting down the candlelight protests and in doing so violated participants’ civil rights. In
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2008.10.31 16:32
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The government says it is going to buy up around 6 trillion won worth of corporate-owned real estate not being used for business purposes. It will also move to buy up housing lots owned by constructio
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2008.10.24 18:01
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The government has unveiled a large-scale plan to prop up the construction industry that can be summarized as containing two parts. One would provide cash to construction companies and the other would
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2008.10.24 18:00
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The financial week started with Black Monday and was filled with fear until the markets closed on Friday. The KOSPI has gone back and forth from the 1,400s to the 1,200s over the past five days, and y
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2008.10.17 15:58
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The removal of North Korea’s designation as a state supporter of terrorism by the United States appears to be imminent. It has been announced that as a compromise, the plan for the nuclear verif
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2008.10.17 15:57
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Amnesty International has issued its final report titled “Policing the Candlelight Protests in South Korea” on the candlelight protests against American beef imports on October 6. It concl
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2008.10.10 16:43
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Korea, China, and Japan have decided to push for the creation of a “Joint Asian Fund,” worth US$80 billion, as a collective response to the global financial crisis. Officials from these th
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2008.10.10 16:41
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President Lee Myung-bak and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met yesterday and decided to elevate relations to the level of strategic cooperative partnership from that of a constructive partnership.
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2008.10.03 16:15
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U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill is going to Pyongyang at a time when North Korea says it is going to restart the reprocessing facility at Yongbyon. North Korea, in the meantime, has
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2008.10.03 16:14
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New United States Ambassador to Korea Kathleen Stephens (Eungyeong Shim is her Korean name) represents several firsts. To begin with, she is the first woman among the 21 American ambassadors to Seoul
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2008.09.26 17:05
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Taro Aso was chosen as Japan’s new prime minister in an election yesterday by that country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Tomorrow he will be officially inaugurated, and he plans to us
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2008.09.26 17:04
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There was a particularly high amount of interest in a “Joint Government-Private Sector Meeting to Encourage Investment and Create Jobs” at the Blue House yesterday. The executive branch an
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2008.09.23 17:12
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The air is full of calls for measures to be in place for the possibility of an unforeseen situation breaking out in North Korea because of National Defence Commission Chairman Kim Jong-il’s ill
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2008.09.23 17:11
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During his “Dialogue With the President” session on the evening of September 9, President Lee Myung-bak said he would stabilize the real estate market through the use of public funds for r
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2008.09.19 18:33
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Once again there are rumors that North Korean National Defence Commission Chairman Kim Jong-il is ill. This time around there is more basis to the speculation. He failed to show himself at all during
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2008.09.19 18:32
