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1 in 3 Koreans live alone, family types becoming diverse
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Korea, Japan finance chiefs vow to tame rampant FX market volatility
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US 'incredibly concerned' about suspected NK-Iran military ties
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K-pop group's manager dismissed for setting up spycam in theater dressing room
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K-pop singer lost consciousness after being hit by foul ball, cancels show
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Korean Muslim YouTuber's plan to build mosque in Incheon goes viral
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[Kim Seong-kon] Democracy and the future of South Korea
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Yoon's office denies considering liberal figures for key posts
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Why is Apple Pay struggling to get purchase in Korea?
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Seoul says Fu Bao loan 'not going to happen'
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Time for Ozawa to tell his side of the story
The guilty ruling handed down to three former aides to Democratic Party of Japan strongman Ichiro Ozawa over political funding irregularities clearly establishes their criminal responsibility by the judiciary. Given this, Ozawa has an extremely heavy responsibility to assume as a politician over the
Sept. 30, 2011
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Transparent gains
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III’s first official trip to the United States achieved something more than the obligatory ceremonial visit of a new president to a key ally and a reaffirmation of the historical, geopolitical and economic ties. Although there was no one-on-one meeting between him
Sept. 30, 2011
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[Zhou Hong] World would benefit from a longer-lasting global order
One of the amazing new phenomena of the rapidly changing past few decades is the change in power configuration of today’s world compared to 20-30 years ago. The fall of the Berlin Wall not only ended the Cold War, but also, or even more significantly, combined the “two world markets” into one.
Sept. 30, 2011
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The storm over disaster aid in the United States
Some 13 percent of Americans approve of how Congress is doing its job, while 83 percent disapprove. Nearly 22 percent of Americans say the country is on the right track; 72 percent say no, the country is on the wrong track.If you were a member of Congress, these averages of recent survey results fro
Sept. 29, 2011
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[Robert Shiller] Great debt scare in U.S., Europe
NEW HAVEN ― It might not seem that Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis and growing concern about the United States’ debt position should shake basic economic confidence. But it apparently has. And loss of confidence, by discouraging consumption and investment, can be a self-fulfilling prophecy, causing t
Sept. 29, 2011
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[William Pesek] Korea battens down hatches
The threat of financial contagion isn’t always bad.Take South Korea, which is taking the hint from Europe’s fast-worsening sovereign debt crisis. It’s devising plans to cut its fiscal deficit next year and loudly publicizing the effort ― just in case credit-rating agencies get any ideas about downgr
Sept. 29, 2011
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[Sarah Chayes] Government by crime syndicate in Afghanistan
The remarkable public confrontation between the Gandhi-like ascetic Anna Hazare and the government of India ― which came to a triumphant end last month with a glass of orange juice and a government promise to create a strong, independent anti-corruption agency ― is the latest manifestation of a worl
Sept. 29, 2011
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Flirting with justice
After his first argument before Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, one prominent Southern lawyer was certain the Supreme Court would rule in his favor ― because, he said, she was “flirting” with him. The comment speaks volumes about the speaker, but it also says something about the person who weaved her w
Sept. 29, 2011
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[Ban Ki-moon] A global agenda for seven billion
NEW YORK ― Late next month, a child will be born ― the 7 billionth citizen of planet Earth. We will never know the circumstances into which he or she was born. We do know that the baby will enter a world of vast and unpredictable change ― environmental, economic, geopolitical, technological and demo
Sept. 29, 2011
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[Susan Crawford] Phone, Web clampdowns in crises intolerable
Can U.S. citizens count on using the Internet and cell-phone networks to communicate in high-stress situations? The Federal Communications Commission is about to examine that question. Public interest and the law both require that channels stay open. At issue is the termination of cell-phone service
Sept. 28, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Admiral Mullen bids farewell
WASHINGTON ― Talking to Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in his final week in the job, I found myself wondering if we are entering a “post-military” age, when our top officers understand that the biggest problems can’t be solved with military power. Time and again, v
Sept. 28, 2011
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[Robert Reich] Creating jobs by lowering wages
Rick Perry and Mitt Romney can duke it out over who created the most jobs, but governors have as much influence over job growth in their states as roosters do over sunrises.States don’t have their own monetary policies so they can’t lower interest rates to spur job growth. They can’t spur demand thr
Sept. 28, 2011
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New ways to make money talk in campaign finance disclosure
Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority decision last year in Citizens United, which allowed corporations to contribute unlimited sums toward electioneering, was controversial. But the court’s vision of campaign finance disclosure, which was endorsed by every justice except Clarence Thomas, was not. The
Sept. 28, 2011
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[Meghan Daum] Chick flick television
Perhaps it’s been brought to your attention that this is a big week for retrograde representations of women on television. Monday last week marked the premiere of NBC’s “The Playboy Club,” a noir-ish look at Hugh Hefner’s flagship Chicago club in 1963, and Sunday saw the launch of ABC’s “Pan Am,” a
Sept. 28, 2011
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[Doyle McManus] The Republican Party’s hard-right tilt
We’ve now seen three full-dress debates among the Republican politicians who want to be the next president of the United States, and here’s what we’ve learned:They all believe taxes are too high, even though federal taxes are lower as a percentage of the U.S. economy than any time in the last 60 yea
Sept. 28, 2011
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China as J.P. Morgan Might Have to Save World By William Pesek BloombergChina and the U.S. finally found something to agree on: Europe is doomed and might take the world’s two biggest economies down with it. Neither officials in Beijing nor Washington are actually using the “D word.” They don’t need
Sept. 28, 2011
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[Max Boot] Confirm Robert Ford as Syrian ambassador
Our embattled man in Damascus, Ambassador Robert Ford, is threatened not only by the Syrian regime but by Republican senators who are dragging their feet on confirming his appointment. Their opposition, which is founded on the premise that we should not dignify Bashar Assad’s regime with an ambassad
Sept. 27, 2011
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[Daniel Fiedler] KORUS FTA agreement, again
Four years ago South Korea and the United States first signed a free trade agreement. At that time many Koreans and foreigners rejoiced in anticipation of lower priced foods, cars and other staples from the United States. However, due to special interest groups in both countries, the agreement was n
Sept. 27, 2011
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Direct talks needed for Palestinian statehood
When I was 1 year old, my parents and their neighbors had occasion to be glued to their radio sets to listen to a very special broadcast. It was Nov. 29, 1947, when the General Assembly of the United Nations voted on the Partition Plan of then British-ruled Palestine between Arabs and Jews.One by on
Sept. 27, 2011
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[Pankaj Mishra] The socialist push behind India’s capitalist rise
Twenty years ago, India faced a fiscal crisis caused by profligate public spending and rising oil prices after the first Persian Gulf War. There was a risk it would default on its international payments. The finance minister, an English-educated Sikh economist named Manmohan Singh, responded to an a
Sept. 27, 2011