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President Park Geun-hye’s proposal to establish new ministries and make other changes to the organization of government agencies is mired in protracted negations between the ruling Saenuri Party and ...
Updated : 2013.03.08 19:33
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Consumers pay a 10 percent value-added tax each time they purchase a good or a service, not directly but through the seller. A change in payment would increase the tax collections by up to 7.1 trilli...
Updated : 2013.03.08 19:33
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E-mart, the nation’s largest discount store chain, has taken a bold step for its non-regular workers. The retail giant announced earlier this week that it would grant regular employee status to 10,00...
Updated : 2013.03.07 19:58
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Korea became the world’s eighth-largest trader last year, moving up a notch from a year earlier. An interim report from the World Trade Organization, cited by the government Monday, showed the countr...
Updated : 2013.03.06 20:33
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Many Koreans might have sympathized with the frustration President Park Geun-hye expressed in her address Monday over the delay in parliamentary approval of her government reorganization plan. Still,...
Updated : 2013.03.06 20:33
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The resignation of Kim Jeong-hoon, President Park Geun-hye’s science minister nominee, is another painful reminder that Korea badly needs to reform its politics before trying to rejuvenate its econom...
Updated : 2013.03.05 20:23
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Former presidential hopeful Ahn Cheol-soo’s decision to run for a parliamentary seat in April signals that the software entrepreneur-turned politician has started to position himself to take another ...
Updated : 2013.03.05 20:23
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A recent study by a local professor suggested that income distribution in the country was far more unequal than had been measured by government statisticians. The findings of the study, which placed ...
Updated : 2013.03.04 19:40
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Former NBA star Dennis Rodman lauded North Korea’s young ruler Kim Jong-un as an “awesome guy” and his father and grandfather as “great leaders” at the end of his four-day visit to Pyongyang last wee...
Updated : 2013.03.04 19:40
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Pressure is mounting on Kim Byung-kwan, nominee for the post of defense minister, to withdraw for the numerous allegations of ethical lapses he made when he was a senior Army officer. The main opposi...
Updated : 2013.03.03 20:13
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China appears to be reevaluating relations with North Korea during its leadership transition to Xi Jinping ― undoubtedly a backlash of North Korea’s February nuclear test. Indications in this regard ...
Updated : 2013.03.03 20:13
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After several hectic days that followed her inauguration on Monday, President Park Geun-hye is now settling down to a new life in the Blue House, administering state affairs as head of state. She cer...
Updated : 2013.02.28 20:04
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The administration says it is planning to save 100 trillion won ($92.4 billion) by cutting non-welfare expenditures during the next five years to help finance President Park Geun-hye’s new welfare pr...
Updated : 2013.02.28 20:03
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The government and the left-leaning Korean Teachers and Educational Workers’ Union are on a collision course over the union’s charter that accepts dismissed teachers as members. The Ministry of Empl...
Updated : 2013.02.27 20:21
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One keyword in President Park Geun-hye’s inaugural address on Monday was “cultural renaissance.” She presented “a flourishing culture” as one of the three goals she would pursue during her five-year ...
Updated : 2013.02.27 20:21
