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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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Allegations surrounding BTS resurface, enraged fans demand apology
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Students with history of violence will be barred from becoming teachers
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Probe of first lady on Dior bag allegations set to begin
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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Medical feud leaves hospitals in financial crisis
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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Chip up cycle won’t stay long: SK chief
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[Shahid Javed Burki] Bin Laden and the Afghan endgame
ISLAMABAD ― Osama bin Laden’s death will profoundly affect Pakistan’s relations with America. The death of al-Qaida’s leader deep in Pakistan, in a city with a heavy military presence, appears to confirm what many have long alleged: Pakistan, not Afghanistan, has become the epicenter of international terrorism.How will bin Laden’s death affect terrorist groups operating not only in Pakistan, but a
May 11, 2011
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[Ruben Martinez] Mexico’s drug war crossing the border
Last year I visited a friend of mine, journalist Raul Silva, in a working-class neighborhood of Cuernavaca. A popular destination for tourists and students of Spanish, the city, about 60 miles south of the Mexican capital, was on edge. Only a few weeks before, a drug gang had audaciously displayed its power, issuing a curfew one Friday night, warning that anyone out after 8 p.m. might be “mistaken
May 11, 2011
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[Amity Shlaes] Obama needs Navy SEALs to target budget
Obama pulls another Osama. He signs the orders. The operation succeeds. This time the target is another great enemy: the federal debt.Or so, at least, runs the national daydream.That Americans indulge themselves in such quirky fantasies reflects a desperation about reality. The reality is that in domestic affairs, President Barack Obama moves not like a leader who nailed Osama bin Laden, but like
May 11, 2011
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[Linda Yueh] Dilemmas facing the Bank of England
OXFORD ― Andrew Sentance, an outgoing member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, has outlined a credibility-challenging scenario for the BOE. There are two contradictory forces that could keep inflation significantly above its 2 percent target not only this year and next year, but even in 2013.The dilemma is that any depreciation of sterling increases the level of imported inflatio
May 11, 2011
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Rethink policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, India
President Obama should take full advantage of the opportunity provided by the death of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden to reshape dramatically U.S. policy related to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.For a decade, this country has expended an inordinate amount of its resources, not to mention the more than 1,500 soldiers killed, to fight a war in Afghanistan that never promised to yield compara
May 10, 2011
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[William Pesek] Gold traders are only winners amid 18% inflation
Nguyen Van Giau sighs audibly and shifts in his chair when I ask him the dreaded question: Is Vietnam losing its inflation battle?It’s one the country’s central bank governor can barely go an hour without fielding these days. Such is life in a nation where consumer prices climbed almost 18 percent in April from a year earlier.Giau’s assurances that he’s committed to taming inflation aren’t resonat
May 10, 2011
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[Shlomo Avineri] Rocky road ahead for Arab democracy
JERUSALEM ― During the turmoil of the French Revolution, a popular saying arose: “How beautiful was the republic ― under the monarchy.” The Revolution aimed at achieving Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Instead, it wrought for France ― and much of Europe ― Jacobin terror, right-wing counter-terror, decades of war, and eventually Napoleonic tyranny. A similar challenge now faces North Africa and
May 10, 2011
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[Thitinan Pongsudhirak] The battle of the temples
BANGKOK ― The military skirmishes between Thailand and Cambodia that have claimed more than two dozen lives, caused scores of injuries, and displaced tens of thousands of people since February are primarily attributable to domestic politics in both countries. Rooted in ancient enmities and the legacy of the colonial era, the fighting is damaging the entire region. So virulent is the dispute that e
May 10, 2011
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[Trudy Rubin] Pakistan: A failed state or rogue state?
There is something surreal about Pakistani officials’ reaction to the killing of Osama bin Laden.Their focus has been wholly on the violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty by the U.S. raid, rather than the fact that bin Laden was living well in their country. The army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, warned he would not tolerate any repeat of such covert action; the country’s foreign secretary, Salma
May 10, 2011
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[Kim Seong-kon] Movies for healing and personal growth
It may sound farfetched to say that movies can offer healing and personal growth. It is true nonetheless. Movies, just like novels and music, can offer insight into issues we are struggling with, provoke realizations, and provide us with extraordinary healing power. Perhaps that is why some psychiatrists in New York City reportedly prescribe titles of movies instead of pills these days. While watc
May 10, 2011
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It’s time to reduce U.S. role in Afghanistan
The American mission in Afghanistan changed with two quick shots from a Navy SEAL last Sunday.The calls for reflection on the nature of the war on terror with the death of Osama bin Laden have merit. Al-Qaida and its leader were the reasons behind 100,000 U.S. troops facing daily dangers.In a world without bin Laden, the terror war could be as legitimately staged in Somalia, Yemen or Iran.Even bef
May 9, 2011
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Federal employees are not part of the problem
Even though the threat of a government shutdown is over for now, the federal services that Americans depend on are still at risk of disappearing.House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s proposal to reduce the deficit by gutting $375 billion from the federal government in the next 10 years would severely threaten the important work of the nation’s federal workforce.As would the recommendations put forth b
May 9, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Quarrel between top leaders in Tehran
WASHINGTON ― When there’s political upheaval in Tehran, it’s often interwoven with the explosive question of possible outreach to the United States. And that may be the case with a recent feud between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The key figure in this dispute is Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei, Ahmadinejad’s former chief of staff and said to be his choice as successor in
May 9, 2011
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[Albert R. Hunt] Obama’s Abbottabad bounce may prove short-lived
The cardinal sin of political prognostication is static analysis.A short weekend ago the emerging wisdom was that President Barack Obama’s reelection was in peril. The House Republican whip, Kevin McCarthy of California, perhaps the most politically attuned elected member of his party, was saying that while he always believed Republicans would have a good year in 2012, he now thought it was likely
May 9, 2011
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[William Pesek] China needs to upgrade economic software
Mark Zuckerberg shouldn’t lose too much sleep about China’s Facebook beating him to Wall Street.Renren Inc. is the first social-networking website to go public in the U.S., raising $743 million with which founder Joseph Chen can tap China’s 1.3 billion people. China is a market Facebook Inc. has yet to friend and the U.S. equity market is a place Zuckerberg has yet to tread.Here’s the thing, thoug
May 9, 2011
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[Joseph E. Stiglitz] The IMF’s switch comes at right time
NEW YORK ― The annual spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund was notable in marking the fund’s effort to distance itself from its own long-standing tenets on capital controls and labor-market flexibility. It appears that a new IMF has gradually, and cautiously, emerged under the leadership of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.Slightly more than 13 years earlier, at the IMF’s Hong Kong meeting in 1
May 9, 2011
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Death row delays show lack of conviction
Last year, California added 28 inmates to the state’s death row, eight of whom were sentenced in Los Angeles County. They aren’t in much danger of an early demise, however, thanks largely to legal delays, including a decision Tuesday by state officials not to pursue executions in 2011. The seemingly never-ending court battles mean that convicts in capital cases are far more likely to die of natura
May 8, 2011
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Is the world safer now al-Qaida chief is dead?
Although the Americans have been gloatingly bandying about the death of Osama bin Laden since their “successful” operation at Abbottabad on Monday (May 2), doubts have continued to persist about the man whom they had identified as al-Qaida’s chief before taking his life. In fact, the burial of the body at sea tends to reinforce the suspicion of a questionable identity of the murdered person; if pr
May 8, 2011
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[Max Boot] Bin Laden: The day of reckoning
In evaluating Osama bin Laden’s dubious legacy, it is important to note that there was nothing new about religiously inspired terrorism when this rich Saudi exile convened a small group of jihadists in his Peshawar, Pakistan, home in 1988 to found al-Qaida ― an organization designed to carry on the war waged so successfully against the Red Army in Afghanistan.Two of the earliest known terrorist gr
May 8, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Kingmaker’s tale recalls CIA’s purpose
WASHINGTON ― As Washington buzzes about yet another restart for Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, I have been reading a book that summarizes the past 44 years of botched peacemaking, blown opportunities and, sometimes, sheer folly. The book is a posthumous memoir by Jack O’Connell, a former CIA operative who was for many years King Hussein’s “case officer” in Jordan. Yes, you read that right
May 8, 2011