Showing posts with label South Korea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Korea. Show all posts
May 29, 2010

South Korea Expands Aid for Internet Addiction

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Park Jin-Hee for the International Herald Tribune Teenagers at online game parlor in Gwangmyeong, Seoul . By CHOE SANG-HUN ...
Apr 2, 2010

Overtures to China may signal opening of North Korea's economy

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Image by IsaacMao via Flickr By Blaine Harden Friday, April 2, 2010; A10 SEOUL -- Squeezed by food shortages and financial sanctions, ...
Apr 1, 2010

Why Internet connections are fastest in South Korea - CNN.com

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Image by preetamrai via Flickr Why Internet connections are fastest in South Korea - CNN.com Related articles by Zemanta A Robot In Every H...
Mar 1, 2010

With pressures high, South Korean women put off marriage and childbirth

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By Blaine Harden Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, March 1, 2010; A10 SEOUL -- In a full-page newspaper advertisement headlined ...
Dec 11, 2009

Google Tailors Korean Home Page to Local Tastes

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Image via CrunchBase News and links to popular topics and blogs are added; effort seeks to gain market share by appealing more to locals By ...
Nov 2, 2009

A Glass Darkly - Desperate for Food

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Image via Wikipedia In the early 1990s famine took hold in North Korea. The inefficient collective farms had never been able to feed the pop...

The Chosun Ilbo - Korea Lags Behind in Closing Gender Gap

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Image via Wikipedia Many countries are making great strides toward gender equality , but women still lag behind men in political and economi...
Nov 1, 2009

South Korea Struggles With Attitudes Toward Race - NYTimes.com

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Image by maHidoodi via Flickr By CHOE SANG-HUN SEOUL — On the evening of July 10, Bonogit Hussain, a 29-year-old Indian man, a...
Oct 23, 2009

The Chosun Ilbo - Two Koreas 'in Secret Singapore Meeting'

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There were secret contacts between the two Koreas in Singapore during Oct. 15-20, possibly to discuss an inter-Korean summit, South Korean ...
Oct 8, 2009

In South Korea, an Effort to Defend Unwed Mothers - NYTimes.com

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Image by joguldi via Flickr By CHOE SANG-HUN SEOUL, South Korea — Four years ago, when she found that she was pregnant by her...
Aug 27, 2009

Energized Voters Seem Poised to End LDP's Half-Century Rule in Japan - washingtonpost.com

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Image by Getty Images via Daylife By Blaine Harden Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, August 27, 2009 TOKYO -- Japanese voters ...
Aug 18, 2009

Seoul Amplifies Its Network

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By Stephen Kim and Bill Powell In the sprawling, densely populated capital city of South Korea, Lee Hye-young and her husband Kim Soon-k...
Aug 17, 2009

North Korea to Reopen Its Border to the South

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By MARK McDONALD HONG KONG — North Korea said Monday that it would open its highly militarized border with South Korea to all...
Aug 7, 2009

It's Jjia jjia, But Written in Hangeul

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A tribe in Indonesia has begun using Hangeul, the Kore...
Jul 30, 2009

Opening Their Wallets, Emptying Their Savings

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By Blaine Harden Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, July 30, 2009 SEOUL -- In pursuit of middle-class prosperity, South Koreans ...