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President-elect Park Geun-hye has made no secret of her wish to oversee big increases in public spending, mostly to fund her vision of a more expansive welfare system. Considering South Korea’s comp...
Updated : 2013.01.28 20:05
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A national epidemic, suicide claims almost three times as many lives as road accidents each year. More than 15,500 people here took their own lives in 2010, making suicide the leading cause of death ...
Updated : 2013.01.21 19:14
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As the nation’s head for the next five years, President-elect Park Geun-hye has promised to usher in a new era of hope and happiness. A major expansion of the social welfare system is to be the mea...
Updated : 2013.01.14 20:37
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In typical Korean fashion, the nation’s experience with road safety has been one of seismic change over a very short period of time. The number of people killed in traffic accidents here has almost...
Updated : 2013.01.07 20:31
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A growing number of Korean homeowners are wealthy on paper, but poor in practice. Burdened by mortgage repayments, these so-called “house poor,” often living in upscale neighborhoods, struggle to f...
Updated : 2012.12.30 21:07
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Shoppers look at groceries at a supermarket in Seoul. (Yonhap News) It is said that you are what you eat. For some, this means sticking to a diet of only the healthiest produce. But even the biggest...
Updated : 2012.12.24 20:02
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A newsstand display of magazines in an Asian city. (Bloomberg) To some, it’s a harmless pleasure. To others, it’s a societal ill. Pornography, for better or worse, is a prevalent reality in Korea....
Updated : 2012.12.17 20:37
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A man begs for money at a subway station in Seoul. (The Korea Herald) For most, the arrival of Korea’s long, freezing winter is merely an inconvenience. But for the nation’s homeless population, t...
Updated : 2012.12.10 20:16
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The Supreme Court in Seocho-dong, southern Seoul (The Korea Herald) As an idea, the right to defend oneself from attack would appear uncontroversial. But in its framing in law and interpretation by ...
Updated : 2012.12.03 20:54
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Korea may be known as an IT powerhouse, but its place in the global software industry remains decidedly modest. Korean software took up less than 2 percent of the global market last year. Even in the...
Updated : 2012.11.26 20:19
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To many, profit is something to be regarded with suspicion. But it’s rarely more controversial than when associated with health care. Unsurprisingly, then, a decision by the Ministry of Health and W...
Updated : 2012.11.19 20:35
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Lee Sang-deuk, the elder brother of President Lee Myung-bak, answers reporters’ questions outside the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office in Seoul, where he was questioned on charges of taking bribes in Ju...
Updated : 2012.11.12 20:57
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U.S. President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on the campaign trail. (Yonhap News) Billed as the choice to select the world’s most powerful man, the race for the White House captures the world’s att...
Updated : 2012.11.05 20:31
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Like so much of its history, Korea’s economic development from the mid-20th century onward was heavily entwined with nationalism. The Park Chung-hee regime regularly invoked national pride in mobili...
Updated : 2012.10.29 20:22
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It’s a Korean music success story few saw coming. But 500 million hits on YouTube later, Psy, worlds away from K-pop’s typical cutesy affections or unabashed sex appeal, has achieved international ...
Updated : 2012.10.22 19:43
