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May 20, 2013
- A new deal for fragile states
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PARIS - Today, roughly one-quarter of the world’s population lives in conflict-affected and fragile states. Despite vast sums of money spent aiding such states over the last 50 years, armed conflict and violence continue to blight the lives of millions of people around the world. International...
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May 20, 2013
- Remember Korean War heroes
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My relatives all gathered together at a recent family wedding. Brothers and sisters of my in-laws, who are from Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province in North Korea, also joined. The generation of their parents, who took their children and boarded a ship to evacuate from Hungnam city in December 195...
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May 20, 2013
- Dangerous community service
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A man was arrested for sexually assaulting a child. He came to know her when he was doing court-ordered community service at a day care center. After finishing his service last January, he recently ran into her while he was driving a car. He put her in his car and allegedly violated her. He is a...
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May 20, 2013
- DP needs a new world view
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The main opposition Democratic Party is hyping up a new slogan - a party serving for the powerless and weak. In Gwangju, its political home base, the DP announced its declaration to become a “party for the eul” (a Korean term referring to the weaker or supplying end of a business contract). Th...
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May 16, 2013
- What use are economists?
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When the stakes are high, it is no surprise that battling political opponents use whatever support they can garner from economists and other researchers. That is what happened when conservative American politicians and European Union officials latched on to the work of two Harvard professors - C...
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May 16, 2013
- We’ve seen this script before
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A weird movie filmed in a fuzzy and confused way has been playing for a week now. Its star is former journalist and presidential spokesman Yoon Chang-jung. The audience finds it so gripping that it has forgotten what kinds of hanbok President Park Geun-hye wore in her first official trip to the ...
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May 16, 2013
- Two new drivers in Assembly
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New floor leaders for the ruling Saenuri Party and main opposition Democratic Party were elected yesterday. Floor leaders play a crucial role in orchestrating the operations of the National Assembly as the prime representatives of their political parties. Given their immense role in the legislat...
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May 16, 2013
- Shame on Prime Minister Abe
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Japan’s far-right politicians have lost their minds. Outspoken nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto have unabashedly brought up the ghosts of Japan’s wartime past and irked neighbors that still bear bitter memories of its military aggression. Their misbehavior ...
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May 15, 2013
- No one to blame but yourself
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You can’t judge a book by its cover. We see so many people who seem proper and nice but are troubled inside. It is not easy to see through a person. You cannot acquire such insight through practice. After all, you need discerning eyes to judge a person. An ordinary person can only notice ordin...
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May 15, 2013
- Creativity and destruction
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A government must be as simple, clear and detailed as possible in setting its policy goals. Otherwise, it can create confusion in execution of its policies and undermine the predictability of them. In this respect, the concept of “creative economy,” which the Park Geun-hye administration has ...
