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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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Over 60% of S. Koreans support W100m childbirth incentive: survey
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‘Inside Out 2’ adds four new emotions, explores teenage life
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Questions raised over fair promotion of RM, NewJeans
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[Frida Ghitis] Hoping for winds of Middle East peace
Nobody expected a quick happy ending, but the depths to which the Middle East peace process has fallen, and the degree to which American influence has collapsed, are nothing short of astounding.Just three years ago, a deal between Israelis and Palestinians seemed tantalizingly close. Today, politica
Aug. 24, 2011
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[Nathan Rice] Crimes against women
A recent article suggesting that women-only subway cars would help curb the problem of crimes against women in the subway is misguided. The points raised before are quite valid. It is discriminatory towards men. According to the report, 1,192 incidents were handled last year, which is estimated to b
Aug. 24, 2011
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[Thomas Klassen] Korea needs to retire mandatory retirement
Mandatory retirement at a very young age, often in the mid 50s, is a defining feature of Korean workplaces. After being forced to retire so early, workers face a long period of low paying and precarious employment either in self-employment or contract work. Not surprisingly, Koreans have working liv
Aug. 24, 2011
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[Lee Jae-min] FTAs and trade remedy measures
Import restrictions are detested by trade agreements. The purpose of such agreements, most notably FTAs, is to dismantle trade restrictions between the signatories. There is one important exception to this general rule: raising an import barrier against unfairly traded goods is permitted. Unfai
Aug. 23, 2011
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[Margaret Carlson] Obama vacation easy to criticize, hard to read
A lot of perks come with being U.S. president. You’re whisked here and there so that your feet barely touch ground. Heads of state pay their respects. There’s no such thing as a dropped call. You have parties and someone else cleans up. But there’s one perk that almost everyone else gets that you do
Aug. 23, 2011
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[Kim Seong-kon] Of human touch and the computer
We now live in a world where our lives are unwittingly controlled by computers. In fact, computers are so ubiquitous that we cannot imagine a world without them. Wherever you go, you will encounter a computer ― at schools, workplaces, stores, and airports, just to name a few. Our wellbeing prac
Aug. 23, 2011
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[Myung Oak Kim] Focus on quality of meals
The special poll in Seoul on Wednesday is the culmination of a bitter and bizarre political fight that has little to do with what is best for children and lots to do with the future direction of Korea’s elections. Opposition Democratic Party members, who control the Seoul Metropolitan Council and th
Aug. 23, 2011
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[Dick Polman] Mr. President, try the Truman approach
An unsolicited memo to Barack Obama:Mr. President, can you speak Truman? If you want to stay in office beyond 2012, you need to channel his language.Enough, already, with all your overtures to the Republicans. Why bother trying to extend your hand to people whose primal impulse is to devour it? You
Aug. 23, 2011
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[Aristides N. Hatzis] From Athens to Seoul
This was my first visit to South Korea and the instant reaction was pure astonishment. From Seoul, the imposing and enchanting metropolis, to Jeju Island, the magnificent tropical paradise, everything seemed so different from Western Europe and North America. The differences with my country, Greece,
Aug. 23, 2011
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[Robert Reich] Health care law and Medicare
Two appellate judges in Atlanta ― one appointed by Bill Clinton and one by George H.W. Bush ― have just decided the Constitution doesn’t allow the federal government to require individuals to buy health insurance.The decision is a major defeat for the White House. The so-called “individual mandate”
Aug. 22, 2011
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[Michal Levertov] Can protests bring Jews, Arabs together in Israel?
HURFEISH, Israel ― The Druze village of Hurfeish seems as pastoral as the rural north of Israel can be. Sitting on the northwestern slope of the Meron Mountains amid a national park, the centuries-old settlement of about 6,000 residents looks like an image taken from a tourist postcard: green, beaut
Aug. 22, 2011
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[Nathan Myhrvold] Society: Descended from apes, acting as slime molds
As we lurch from one high-stakes political drama to another, it is natural to wonder why societies aren’t better at avoiding self-inflicted crises. Here in the U.S. earlier this month, the government barely dodged default, even though economists reached consensus months ago on when the debt limit wo
Aug. 22, 2011
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[Laurence Kotlikoff] U.S. government merits a junk credit rating
Politicians and investors say Standard & Poor’s made a mistake when it cut the U.S.’s credit rating from “AAA” to “AA+.” I agree. I wonder why S&P didn’t take it all the way down to “CCC.” The country’s political leaders, from President Barack Obama on down, are alternately decrying S&P’s hubris and
Aug. 22, 2011
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[Stephen L. Carter] Baseball, Tim Pawlenty and celebrity politics
You might have missed the news that several courthouse guards are being investigated for accepting autographed baseballs from Roger Clemens, one of the greatest pitchers of the modern era, after his mistrial on charges of lying under oath about steroid use. This might seem like a minor offense, but
Aug. 22, 2011
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[Rachel Marsden] Could London riots happen in U.S.?
The riots that have ravaged urban England take root in phenomena that aren’t exclusive to that country but are increasingly on the rise everywhere. Could the same thing happen in America? Of course it could. And here’s why.The acute social breakdown sparked by a single police killing of a perp who h
Aug. 21, 2011
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[Editorial] Health care case a good moment for judicial restraint
For about the first third of the 20th century, the U.S. Supreme Court was under the sway of a doctrine called “substantive due process.” The court routinely invoked this (and the related concept of “freedom of contract”) to overturn laws attempting to regulate business on matters such as working con
Aug. 21, 2011
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[Rakesh Mani] All man’s land without women
NEW DELHI ― Ernest Hemingway’s collection of stories, Men without Women, examines tense gender relationships. In a particularly poignant story, a young man convinces his partner to have an abortion, viewing their unborn child as a hindrance to the status quo. Frustrated, the woman gives in.That stor
Aug. 21, 2011
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[Stephen Baker] That is Mr. Exxon Mobil to you
“Corporations are people, my friend.” Mitt Romney, Aug. 11, campaigning in IowaI’ve been thinking about people I know. Apple comes to mind. It’s terrific at electronics and has a great eye for design. It’s far richer than everyone in my neighborhood. Another person I’ve known for years is General Mo
Aug. 21, 2011
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[Ghassan Michel Rubeiz] Syrian people are entitled to shape their destiny
The Assad dynasty in Syria has miscalculated by applying overwhelming force to try to stop the five-month uprising there.After four decades of abuse of power in Syria, the rulers in Damascus are vulnerable, morally and politically. It is hard to imagine how the Assad family can continue much longer
Aug. 21, 2011
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[Ezra Klein] Is Texan Rick Perry too European to be next president of U.S.?
You wouldn’t think that the governor of Texas, the most conservative of the viable candidates in the Republican presidential field, would want to make the U.S. more like Europe. Unless, of course, you have read Rick Perry’s book. “Fed Up,” Perry’s 2010 cri de coeur (yes, that’s French), can be summe
Aug. 21, 2011