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Yoon sorry for shortcomings but insists policies were right
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1 in 3 Koreans live alone, family types becoming diverse
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S. Korea ‘strongly’ protests Japan’s claim over Dokdo in diplomatic bluebook
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Korea, Japan finance chiefs vow to tame rampant FX market volatility
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US 'incredibly concerned' about suspected NK-Iran military ties
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Korean won weakens amid heightened uncertainty
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Seoul says will cut power to porn festival planned on Han River
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Sewol victims commemorated on tragedy's 10th anniversary
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K-pop group's manager dismissed for setting up spycam in theater dressing room
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Chanel, Louis Vuitton see muted growth in Korea
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[Ramesh Ponnuru] Debt battles revealed tea party’s divisions
At first glance, it looks as if the tea partiers scored a big win over Speaker of the House John Boehner and the Republican Party establishment last week. Boehner pleaded for Republican members of Congress to unite in support of a package of spending cuts and a debt-limit increase. He ran into vehem
Aug. 3, 2011
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[Laszlo Bruszt , David Stark] Western democracy’s summer of silence over N. Africa
FIESOLE, Italy ― The summer has not brought consolidation to processes of political change in North Africa. The political landscapes in Egypt and Tunisia are highly volatile. With only a few months before crucial elections, it is still highly uncertain who and what can guarantee that elections will
Aug. 3, 2011
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[Edward Glaeser] Balanced budget suddenly looks more appealing
We have stared hard into the abyss of a national default, and the close call with financial Armageddon is starting to make a balanced-budget amendment look good. A stringent restriction on public borrowing, if properly crafted, offers the hope for more fiscal responsibility, less wasteful spending a
Aug. 3, 2011
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[Frida Ghitis] People everywhere fed up with politicians
People have run out of patience with the government. Chat with someone in the street, at a party or a restaurant, anywhere, and you hear the same complaint rising from a grimacing face: We’re fed up; had more than enough of irresponsible, unreliable, dishonest, self-serving officials in government.A
Aug. 3, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Getting ready for the next time
WASHINGTON ― So next time the Norwegians will arm more of their police. And next time, authorities will investigate the ranting manifestos of any anti-Muslim extremist who claims to lead a revival of the medieval Knights Templar. But the July 22 attack in Oslo by Anders Behring Breivik teaches
Aug. 2, 2011
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[Amity Shlaes] Republicans should ‘pull a Newt’ for deficit cuts
Thank goodness for Mitch McConnell. Thank goodness Republicans in Congress didn’t “pull a Newt.” Welcome, Clinton Era II.That’s the conventional wisdom about the budget deal reached July 31. Commentators are emphasizing the statesmanship of the Senate minority leader. Without the Kentucky senator’s
Aug. 2, 2011
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[Kim Seong-kon] What should we do with the Web?
The other day when I tried to open my online bank account, I found I could not access my account for some reason. So I called the customer service hotline, and was promptly routed to the bank’s computer security office after explaining my problem. The computer security officer then entered my comput
Aug. 2, 2011
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[Andrew Gumbel] U.S. experiences and seeds of terror in Norway
America’s violent far right would have no difficulty recognizing the tell-tale signatures of the killing spree in Norway ― and not just because they would see the confessed perpetrator, Anders Behring Breivik, as an ideological soul mate who, like their own heroes, thought he could trigger a white-s
Aug. 2, 2011
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[Simon Johnson] Low bank capital is next U.S. fiscal crisis
The summer debate that has dominated Washington seems straightforward. Under what conditions should the U.S. government be allowed to borrow more money? The numbers that have been bandied about focus on reducing the cumulative deficit projection over the next 10 years, as measured by the Congression
Aug. 2, 2011
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[Gordon Brown] In the wake of the euro summit
LONDON ― It was said of one 19th century British politician that he never missed a chance to let slip an opportunity.Will the euro summit of 2011 be remembered as “the day European leaders faced the crisis down” ― or will it be viewed, in retrospect, as the turning point at which history failed to t
Aug. 1, 2011
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[Tim Rutten] Again, the danger posed by hate-laced propaganda
Sixteen years ago, I was one of the Los Angeles Times writers assigned to cover the Oklahoma City bombing. It was one of those wrenching stories that stand out in a reportorial memory that now extends back more than four decades, partly because my assignment was to each day write about the children
Aug. 1, 2011
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[Dominique Moisi] Israel’s lonely economic prosperity
PARIS ― It is difficult not to be struck by the contrast between the “Asian”-like energy of Israel’s economy and civil society and the purely defensive nature of its approach to political change, both within and outside the country. A recent law bars Israeli citizens from supporting Western boycotts
Aug. 1, 2011
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[Karl Friedhoff] Taking a crowbar to the ‘Baseball Three’
Throughout the six-party talks, the “Baseball Three” ― a term reportedly coined by Ambassador Christopher Hill to describe the baseball-playing democracies of Japan, South Korea and the United States ― have banded together in an attempt to denuclearize North Korea. However, maintaining unity among t
Aug. 1, 2011
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[Gregory Rodriguez] White flight, to the city
For nearly half a century, the term “inner city” has been code for poor and minority. But now white flight ― the decades-long trend of affluent Anglos leaving the urban core for leafier suburban cul-de-sacs ― has run its course. And “inner city” is about to take on a whole new meaning.New census dat
Aug. 1, 2011
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[Daniel Akst] Casualties of the digital age of information
It’s hard to resist contrasting the liquidation of the Borders bookstore chain, which commenced this week, with the latest outburst of worry over the fate of the U.S. Postal Service.Both Borders and the Postal Service are basically broke, and both are victims of a technological revolution that incre
Aug. 1, 2011
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[David Ignatius] A proxy and a conundrum
WASHINGTON ― Of all the leftover business for the Obama administration as U.S. troops prepare to leave Iraq at the end of the year, nothing is more symbolic of the continuing threats there ― and throughout the region ― than the case of a Lebanese Hezbollah operative named Ali Mussa Daqduq. Daqduq has been one of Iran’s top covert operatives in Iraq, according to U.S. officials. He was captured in
July 31, 2011
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[Diana Wagman] A request, but no more, for summer dress modesty
Every summer when the temperature goes up, people start stripping down. At the risk of sounding like a prude, I find it unseemly. Toddlers look cute in just a pair of shorts. Middle-age men do not. Most women don’t look good in shorts, period.Yes, there are starlets strutting down Sunset Boulevard beautiful in little short-shorts, but they’re the exception. I don’t see them at my local grocery sto
July 31, 2011
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[Rachel Marsden] Bush still a bogeyman to Europeans
If online comments and e-mails from friends are any indication, the overwhelming feeling about the American debt crisis here in Europe is that if Barack Obama is now in a position of having to raise the debt ceiling or face default, the crisis can only be traced back to George W. Bush.Europeans are, in part, blaming Bush’s post-9/11 military funding ― yet somehow the phrase “overstretched Greek ar
July 31, 2011
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[Kathy Gosnell Seiler] No refuge from the mortgage crisis
From the front door of the house to the back is a straight shot unbroken by walls, handy for pacing, 24 steps each way.It is a small house on a small lot in Highland Park, a Los Angeles neighborhood that was on its way up until the recession. The house has not always been well tended: It’s old and a bit shabby, but it stands pretty much foursquare.I bought it in 2005 for $503,000, most of it borro
July 31, 2011
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[Peter Goldmark] News Corp. intrigue grows
Seismic tremors have shaken the media empire of Rupert Murdoch.Empire is the right word. The collection of newspapers, TV stations and news outlets that constitute a large part of News Corp. have been run in very imperial style. And the emperor, 80 years old and going strong, is Rupert Murdoch.The news part of the empire has not been marked by distinguished journalism. But the trigger incident for
July 31, 2011