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Apr. 12, 2013
- Crossing ‘Dog Bridge’
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One former minister-turned lawmaker phoned to say he would be late to a study meeting. We asked him where he was. He said he was crossing the “Dog Bridge.” The meeting was in Yongsan district across the Han River. I had never heard of a “Dog Bridge” in Seoul. When he arrived, he explained...
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Apr. 12, 2013
- We need to talk
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The government has proposed dialogue with North Korea. In a statement yesterday, Ryoo Kihl-jae, unification minister, asked North Korea to come to the negotiation table to discuss the issues North Korea raises, stressing the importance of normalization of the closed Kaesong Industrial Complex. ...
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Apr. 12, 2013
- Use the collaboration momentum
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South Korean health minister Chin Young and his Saudi Arabian counterpart Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabiah have signed a landmark deal on broad-scale cooperation in heath care that will likely serve as a boon to the local medical supply industry. Under the so-called “Twinning Project,” the ...
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Apr. 11, 2013
- Intensify media diplomacy
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“North Korea is unappreciative of Chinese support and in fact is putting the country in an awkward position in a maverick way. .?.?. It spends whatever money it has on nuclear development. .?.?. Does the regime even care for its people?” wrote a researcher at Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences...
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Apr. 11, 2013
- Kim Dae-jung’s lessons for Park
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Amidst the fears of the Asian foreign exchange crisis, two solemn-faced men exchanged greetings in an office on the 15th floor of the Korea Investment Management Company in Yeouido on a late January evening in 1998. They were Kim Yong-whan and Chung Duck-koo. At the time, Kim was the head of the...
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Apr. 11, 2013
- Limit the North’s Internet access
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The government has announced that North Korea was behind the March 20 cyberattacks against three major television networks and two financial companies in Seoul. A joint response team comprised of the government, military and civilian sectors said that a cyberattack unit under the Reconnaissanc...
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Apr. 11, 2013
- Looking for change in the DUP
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In a rare lengthy self-review, the main opposition Democratic United Party blamed itself for its defeat in the last presidential election. The 364-page review over 78 days looked back at the last 15 years of a party on a confused and wandering path. The review assessed that the party as well ...
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Apr. 10, 2013
- Where is the ‘responsible’ PM?
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“It was all thanks to Prime Minister Chung Hong-won,” read an article in the JoongAng Ilbo on Monday. It was a piece on the government’s decision to reserve small-scale public procurement entirely for small- or mid-sized companies. The prime minister played a mediating role to end the disput...
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Apr. 10, 2013
- Thatcher’s lessons for Europe
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Margaret Thatcher was much more respected outside Britain than she was in her own country. In the United States, but also in Central Europe, she is recognized as a hero, especially in the fight for economic and political freedom. That vision of freedom and dynamism was never really all that po...
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Apr. 10, 2013
- Keep the joint complex going
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While ratcheting up tensions on the Korean Peninsula with wild rhetoric and military moves, North Korea took another dangerous and self-destructive action in cutting off the last symbol of cooperation with South Korea. Kim Yang-gon, secretary of the Central Committee of North Korea’s Workers’ ...
