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The foreign currency and stock markets are quieting down after a day of anxiety on September 2, which was the day after they had been shaken all over the place the previous day. The Lee Myung-bak admi
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2008.09.09 17:28
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On September 2 the World Food Program again asked the South Korean government to participate in its food aid project for North Korea. It has asked Seoul to give aid several times since the spring, inc
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2008.09.09 17:27
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There is widespread criticism of how key members of the Lee Myung-bak administration met secretly prior to the choosing of KBS’s new president to discuss what to do about it. The anger is comple
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2008.08.29 17:21
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The Sino-Korean summit began in Seoul yesterday, the third since President Lee Myung-bak was inaugurated in February. Chinese President Hu Jintao chose Korea as his first foreign destination the day a
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2008.08.29 17:19
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Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf has announced his resignation. It was the first time a Pakistani president has stepped down voluntarily, even if he was forced by the situation, namely impe
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2008.08.22 16:06
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In his Liberation Day speech on August 15, President Lee Myung-bak outlined his vision for “low carbon green growth.” He says he wants to turn the crisis of high oil prices into an opportu
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2008.08.22 16:05
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The government has issued a “basic plan” for national energy, one that outlines energy policy and its implementation until 2030. By that year nuclear power will account for 41 percent of K
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2008.08.15 16:15
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Yesterday the MBC program “The Producer’s Notebook” apologized on the air for its mad cow disease report, giving in to the Korea Communications Commission’s binding order to do
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2008.08.15 16:15
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The greatest responsibility for the fact that Dokdo - land that is undeniably Korean - continues to be any sort of controversy lies with our own government. It has failed to keep Japan from its provoc
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2008.08.01 17:19
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The people of Jeju Province have effectively stopped plans to allow for-profit hospitals to be built in their province. In a public opinion survey performed July 24 and 25, some 39.9 percent of respon
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2008.08.01 17:17
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Mongolians accused South Korean tourists of spawning a culture of buying sex in their country. In 2002, a South Korean opened the first karaoke bar in Mongolia’s capital city of Ulan Bator and m
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2008.07.25 16:03
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The foreign ministers of the nations participating in the six-party talks met yesterday in Singapore on the occasion of the ASEAN Regional Forum. It is the first time the six foreign ministers have me
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2008.07.25 16:01
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Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology released a middle school teachers’ instruction manual that names Dokdo. This causes a problem quite unlike the Fuso
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2008.07.18 16:31
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The funeral for the South Korean tourist known by her surname, Park, shot and killed by a North Korean sentry on July 11th, took place yesterday. Today marks six days since the incident, and yet nothi
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2008.07.18 16:29
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Members of an organization of men once trained for special missions that included infiltrating North Korea for sabotaged and other operations charged into the offices of the New Progressive Party (Jin
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2008.07.04 16:56
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Park Hee-tae was chosen to be the Grand National Party’s new chairman at the party convention held on July 3, having been supported by the party’s “mainstream” members, those w
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2008.07.04 16:55
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U.S. President George Bush has canceled his plan to visit Seoul after the Group of Eight summit to be held in Japan at the beginning of July. At this time, it is uncertain whether he will reschedule h
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2008.06.27 17:24
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Most of the country is opposed to resuming American beef imports and yet the government is going ahead with its plans anyway, making you seriously wonder just who this government exists for in the fir
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2008.06.27 17:20
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The candlelight protests are being pummeled simultaneously by the conservative media, conservative commentators and the government. The conservative media, sometimes called “ChoJoongDong,”
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2008.06.20 16:13
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The primary reason the U.S.-Korea beef deal of last April became the object of candlelight protests that have continued now for more than 40 days is of course because of a South Korean government that
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