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Recent months have seen the world’s major countries making fresh moves to reshape the global trade landscape. As these developments pose serious challenges to Korea, the new Seoul government needs to...
Updated : 2013.03.19 19:36
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Last week’s decision by the central bank to freeze its benchmark interest rate at 2.75 percent for a fifth straight month has been viewed by many economists as out of step with the need to spur the s...
Updated : 2013.03.18 19:45
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North Korea appears to know no limit to its bellicose rhetoric against South Korea. A commentary carried by the North’s state news agency Saturday warned South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won wo...
Updated : 2013.03.18 19:45
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Reviews of President Park Geun-hye’s selection of senior prosecutor Chae Dong-wook as nominee for the post of prosecutor-general are favorable, with commentators giving him high marks for not comprom...
Updated : 2013.03.17 20:36
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On Thursday, the Board of Audit and Inspection, which looked into the books of eight government-invested corporations in September and October last year, announced the outcome of the audit, focusing ...
Updated : 2013.03.17 20:35
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The February employment indicators are nothing short of abysmal ― the smallest increase in the number of employed people in three years, the highest jobless rate for young people in 23 months and a s...
Updated : 2013.03.15 20:40
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What was supposed to be the nation’s largest-ever property development project is on the brink of falling apart as its executor has defaulted. All stakeholders will have to prepare themselves to cont...
Updated : 2013.03.15 20:39
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Representatives from about 140 nations and international organizations attended a memorial service in Tokyo on Monday for the victims of the massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami that hit Japan’s no...
Updated : 2013.03.14 19:50
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Korea’s antismoking policy is one of the weakest among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a recent report indicated, giving weight to calls for higher cigarette pri...
Updated : 2013.03.14 19:50
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Former independent presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo has returned home, pledging to “walk the thorny road to usher in a new politics.” Ahn’s plan to run in the April by-election in Seoul’s Nowon ...
Updated : 2013.03.13 19:57
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Plans are shaping up for a household debt write-off, one of the key campaign pledges of President Park Geun-hye. The Financial Services Commission is planning to launch an 870 billion won debt-resche...
Updated : 2013.03.13 19:57
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Retired Army general Nam Jae-joon, who was picked by President Park Geun-hye early this month to head the National Intelligence Service, is said to have charged on several occasions before his nomina...
Updated : 2013.03.12 20:16
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It has increased public concerns over the slack posture of the new government that dozens of military officials played golf over the weekend amid heightening tensions with North Korea. No excuse can ...
Updated : 2013.03.12 20:16
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The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education has launched an investigation into alleged admission corruption at Younghoon International Middle School, one of the two special-purpose middle schools in S...
Updated : 2013.03.11 19:48
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Many citizens in the industrial city of Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province, are seriously thinking about relocating as they are terrified by an unending series of industrial disasters. This month alone...
Updated : 2013.03.11 19:48
