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Korea enters full election mode
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Immigrant woman stabbed to death by Korean husband
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Lee Jong-sup resigns as envoy to Australia
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Yellow dust engulfs S. Korea, advisory alert issued
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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S. Korea to boost support for single-parent families
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Court upholds jail term for man who attempted to murder ex-girlfriend
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Kia EV9 wins world car of year
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Korea misses out on global bond index boost
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Navigating the road map to a post-Gadhafi Libya
WASHINGTON ― As the Libyan rebels continue to mop up resistance inside Tripoli and extend the nominal authority of the Transitional National Council to the rest of Libya, it is important to remember that the establishment of a new Libya will take time and face challenges even greater than those requ
Sept. 1, 2011
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Mexican president correctly hits cartels’ terrorist threat
Mexican President Felipe Calderon issued a long overdue warning to drug cartel leaders last week that their murderous rampage has crossed a threshold and deserves to be labeled what it really is: terrorism. His acknowledgement will help change the mindset about the true nature of this menace and cou
Sept. 1, 2011
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[Frida Ghitis] Someone wants a war in the Middle East
Something extremely important and exceedingly dangerous is unfolding in a most explosive part of the globe, but it is receiving only minimal attention by the media and by world leaders. An outbreak of violence in Southern Israel, Gaza, and along the Egyptian border, triggered by a recent attack agai
Sept. 1, 2011
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[Jeffrey D. Sachs] The new economics of happiness
NEW YORK ― We live in a time of high anxiety. Despite the world’s unprecedented total wealth, there is vast insecurity, unrest, and dissatisfaction. In the United States, a large majority of Americans believe that the country is “on the wrong track.” Pessimism has soared. The same is true in many ot
Sept. 1, 2011
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[J. Bradford DeLong] Ben Bernanke’s dream world
BERKELEY ― U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke is not regarded as an oracle in the way that his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, was before the financial crisis. But financial markets were glued to the speech he gave in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on Aug. 26. What they heard was a bit of a muddle
Aug. 31, 2011
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[Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus] Harvard’s No. 1 ranking makes us wonder
The U.S. News and World Report “Best Colleges” rankings, which will be published next month, are viewed as a Baedeker and Bible by more than 5 million American parents considering colleges and universities for their high-school juniors and seniors. We think that parents should use this guide with ca
Aug. 31, 2011
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[Dominique Moisi] Who among us will help the poor?
PARIS ― With the deepening of the economic crisis and the prospect of another recession looming large on the horizon, growing social inequality has become an increasingly urgent issue. How does one reinforce a sense of solidarity and responsibility within a country? Who will protect the weakest?&nbs
Aug. 31, 2011
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[Meghan Daum] Politics signals the invasion of the idiocrats
You may not have seen “Idiocracy,” the 2006 sci-fi comedy set in an utterly dysfunctional nation 500 years in the future, but chances are you’ve heard it mentioned lately. References to the film seem to be everywhere, and not just in op-eds penned by cranky columnists (I mentioned it in a column las
Aug. 31, 2011
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[Eve Weinbaum and Rachel Roth] Beyond suffrage: How far have women come since?
Today we celebrate the anniversary of female suffrage, a victory that took more than 70 years of political struggle to achieve. After women won the right to vote in 1920, socialist feminist Crystal Eastman observed that suffrage was an important first step but that what women really wanted was freed
Aug. 31, 2011
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[Hans-Werner Sinn] The trouble with eurobonds
MUNICH ― German Chancellor Angela Merkel has withstood the pressure from southern Europe: there will be no eurobonds. For the markets, this is a disappointment, but there is no other way for these countries to rebuild themselves than to insist patiently on a phase of debt discipline and an end to la
Aug. 30, 2011
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[William Pesek] Steve Jobs trumps CEO of $5 trillion economy
Things are bad when a world leader quitting registers less than a corporate executive. That’s what Naoto Kan gets for bowing out the same week as Steve Jobs. Markets reacted immediately to news of Jobs’s departure from Apple Inc.; there was barely a ripple after Kan cashed out and paved the way for
Aug. 30, 2011
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[Kim Seong-kon] Korean vs. American universities
As someone who has taught at both Korean and American universities, I know there are some interesting differences between the two higher educational institutions. In Korea, for example, most high school students seem to believe that a college degree is imperative in order to climb the ladder of soci
Aug. 30, 2011
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[Daniel Fiedler] Child abuse and the failure of South Korean courts
In November 1991 South Korea ratified the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Since that ratification, the South Korean government has enacted a variety of laws to protect children from abuse and exploitation, the centerpiece law being the Child Welfare Act. More recently Korea b
Aug. 30, 2011
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[Albert R. Hunt] Changing Vietnam yearns for closer U.S. embrace
Pham Binh Minh, whose father fought to force the U.S. out of Vietnam, is working fervently to elevate the interest and involvement of his country’s former enemy. Vietnam wants a U.S. presence for economic reasons and as a balance to China, the regional superpower. Minh is the new foreign minister; h
Aug. 30, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Another al-Qaida leader falls
WASHINGTON ― The death of Atiyah Abd al-Rahman in an Aug. 22 drone attack in Pakistan may appear to be just another in the revolving-door fatalities among al-Qaida’s operations chiefs. But it was a crucial blow to the core group that once surrounded Osama bin Laden. Atiyah, as he was known to a
Aug. 29, 2011
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[Susan Crawford] U.S. falls behind in race toward open government
When Brazil’s government buys anything from fighter jets to a fancy villa, details are available online within 24 hours. Such disclosures are a powerful way to combat corruption, and are a model for official openness that could inspire other nations. Brazil’s online portal started in 2004. Among its
Aug. 29, 2011
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[Virginia Postrel] How Jobs made business cool
To understand the cultural significance of Steve Jobs, you have to go back in time: to before the iPad or iPhone or iTunes, before Apple Inc.’s comeback products made candy-colored plastics and iAnything cool, before Jobs got kicked out of Apple, even before the Macintosh hurled a sledgehammer at Bi
Aug. 29, 2011
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[Jack Goldstone and Charles Cadwell] Planning for new Libya in post-Gadhafi era
Post-Gadhafi Libya brims with promise, but also with pitfalls. Blessed with low-sulfur oil, proximity to Europe, and recent strong economic growth, the country should be poised to move forward. But that’s only if the risks of tribal conflicts and the challenges of a very young population and regiona
Aug. 29, 2011
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[Simon Johnson] Behind euro, a crisis unfolds in slow motion
Is the economic and financial situation in Western Europe largely under control, as many prominent Europeans contend? Or is it poised to move into a new and more difficult phase? The crisis feels unreal to some people in the same way that war felt phony to some Britons from September 1939 through sp
Aug. 29, 2011
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[David Ignatius] A rare look inside al-Qaida
WASHINGTON ― Government officials refer to it blandly as the “SSE,” or Sensitive Site Exploitation. That’s their oblique term for the extraordinary cache of evidence that was carried away from Osama bin Laden’s compound the night the al-Qaida leader was killed. With the anniversary of the Sept.
Aug. 28, 2011