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The National Election Commission has come up with a set of proposals to change the nation’s election culture, which it described as overly restrictive. The election watchdog says its proposals are g...
Updated : 2013.05.03 20:58
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President Park Geun-hye reminded many of her father when she presided over a meeting on trade and investment at Cheong Wa Dae on Wednesday. Attended by corporate CEOs as well as ministers, the high-p...
Updated : 2013.05.03 20:58
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The main opposition party is set to change its name from the Democratic United Party back to its previous one, the Democratic Party, at its upcoming national convention on Saturday, which speaks volu...
Updated : 2013.05.02 19:50
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The settlement of a dispute over the withdrawal of South Korean companies from the North Korean border town of Gaeseong may become messy, given that the North Koreans are notoriously tenacious in mak...
Updated : 2013.05.02 19:50
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Korea has emerged as the world’s eighth-largest trader, mainly on the back of improvement in its manufacturers’ competitiveness. In parallel with its rise in global commerce, the country has also inc...
Updated : 2013.05.01 20:34
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China recently canceled a top-level annual finance meeting with Japan and South Korea, which was to be held on the sidelines of an Asian Development Bank conference that opens in Delhi on Thursday fo...
Updated : 2013.05.01 20:34
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The Korean economy grew 0.9 percent in the first quarter of 2013 from the final quarter of last year. Was the high quarterly growth rate an aberration, as claimed by President Park Geun-hye’s adminis...
Updated : 2013.04.30 20:11
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Won Sei-hoon, a former director of the National Intelligence Service, humiliated not just himself but the intelligence agency on Monday when he subjected himself to a prosecutors’ inquiry into an all...
Updated : 2013.04.30 20:11
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The National Assembly passed a resolution denouncing Japan’s recent moves turning a blind eye to its pre-1945 wartime atrocities in its plenary session Monday. But its members should be ashamed of th...
Updated : 2013.04.29 19:58
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Korea urgently needs to encourage more women, especially highly educated ones, to join the workforce to shore up its competitiveness and growth potential. Calls have mounted for stronger measures to ...
Updated : 2013.04.29 19:58
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Blinded by their pursuit of short-term gains, businesses are putting up an organized opposition to moves to improve working conditions and promote fairer trade. The administration and political parti...
Updated : 2013.04.28 20:25
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The industrial complex for South Korean corporations in the North Korean border town of Gaeseong is at risk of permanent closure now that all South Koreans are being withdrawn from the complex as a c...
Updated : 2013.04.28 20:25
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Japan under the leadership of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears to have abandoned its desire to cultivate friendship with its neighbors, notably Korea and China. To the chagrin of the victims of Japa...
Updated : 2013.04.26 20:43
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On Tuesday, the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office disbanded its Central Investigation Department, the most powerful department with a staff of elitist prosecutors. Its abolishment went down in the history ...
Updated : 2013.04.26 20:42
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Former President Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday embarked on his first overseas trip since retiring in February for an encounter with an old friend ready to welcome Lee, who has been increasingly beleaguere...
Updated : 2013.04.25 20:35
