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During a Cabinet meeting yesterday, President Lee Myung-bak said in response to the 2008 candlelight vigil demonstrations that despite much of the conjecture at the time being proven false, not one of
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2010.05.14 16:53
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A funeral ceremony was held yesterday for the sailors of the Geumyang 98, thirty-four days after the trawler went down while taking part in the search effort for missing sailors from the Cheonan. As t
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2010.05.07 16:56
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has begun his visit to China. The several rumors of upcoming visits to China from the beginning of the year have in fact become a reality, but keen interest has arisen
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2010.05.07 16:54
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The upcoming G-20 Summit is not the first major international event held in South Korea. Two events hosted by South Korea during which world leaders gathered together include the 2000 Asia-Europe Meet
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2010.04.30 16:24
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South Korea’s recorded economic growth in the first quarter of this year marked a 7.8 percent increase from last year. Compared also to the previous quarter, it rose 1.8 percent. This is a high
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2010.04.30 16:23
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Negotiations to form a unified opposition coalition prior to the June 2 regional elections have collapsed. The decisive cause of the rupture of the talks was the inability of the main opposition Democ
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2010.04.23 17:19
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Legislative procedures for regulating super supermarkets (SSM) are currently adrift. In the wake of an amendment to related laws regulating smaller supermarkets and large-scale SSMs in the National As
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2010.04.23 17:18
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The Nuclear Security Summit in Washington that came to a close on the 13th was a significant event in establishing a system of international cooperation to advance U.S. President Barack Obama’s
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2010.04.16 16:30
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North Korea, which has been pressuring South Korea to restart the Mt. Kumgang tourism project, enacted new measures two days ago. Our government is virtually ignoring these measures. It appears that t
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2010.04.16 16:29
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The Japanese Ministry of Education yesterday provisionally approved a social studies textbook for fifth and sixth grade elementary schools that designates Dokdo as Japanese territory. Of the five soci
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2010.04.09 16:29
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During a symposium held yesterday on the ecological restoration of Seoul’s Han River, concrete evidence was presented showing that advanced nations are tearing down dams and weirs in order to sa
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2010.04.09 16:28
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The Patrol Combat Corvette (PCC) Cheonan, with 104 crew members on board, sank in the waters off Baengyeong Island, a West Coast island, with 46 crew members now missing. In the end, it is a major tra
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2010.04.02 17:49
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In watching the various aspects of the case of the sunken navy Patrol Combat Corvette (PCC) Cheonan unfold, it is impossible to avoid shaking your head at the apparently low standards of the Korean mi
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2010.04.02 17:47
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Grand National Party floor leader Ahn Sang-soo is neither honest nor dignified. Despite the fact that Kim Yeong-guk, who holds the key to the truth over suspicions that Ahn placed outside pressure on
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2010.03.26 17:29
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Former Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee abruptly returned to his post yesterday as chairman of Samsung Electronics. This comes twenty-three months after he stepped down, taking responsibility for the &ldq
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2010.03.26 17:28
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Japanese Foreign Ministry documents have confirmed that when Japan signed the Korea-Japan treaty of 1965, it determined that former “comfort women” and conscripted laborers could still fil
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2010.03.19 16:06
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Seoul-Chuncheon Expressway Corporation, the private operator of the Seoul-Chuncheon highway that opened last year, has been accused of making billions of Won in illegal profits during the expressway&r
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2010.03.19 16:04
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A few days ago, five opposition parties, including the main opposition Democratic Party (DP), and four civic and social groups, including Hope and Alternatives, announced a joint policy plan for the J
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2010.03.12 17:26
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North Korea is facing a severe food shortage, one that will become even more severe as the spring austerity season progresses. The country may even see the greatest number of starvation deaths since i
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2010.03.12 17:25
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Yesterday, the Foundation for Broadcast Culture (FBC), the biggest stockholder in MBC, named as new MBC president Kim Jae-chul, a close friend of President Lee Myung-bak. A former presidential previou
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2010.03.05 16:39