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Five soldiers were killed and seven others wounded in a shooting spree that took place at a front-line Army unit in Goseong, a town on the east coast, on …

Defying the recent court verdict revoking its legal status, the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union has declared an “all-out struggle” against the …

The swift victories of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in Iraq bring to mind the prescient words of John Buchan in his famous 1916 spy novel …

Most days an announcement that the U.S. will send up to 300 military advisers to noncombat duty in some far-off land wouldn’t get much media mention or …

The collapse of the Gyeongju auditorium in February followed by the capsizing of the Sewol ferry in April have resulted in hundreds of high school and …

What’s not to like about the sharing economy? You take assets lying fallow (cars, homes, spare moments) and rent them out on a short-term basis to people in …

Imagine that the Federal Reserve’s policy makers were as divided on monetary policy as members of Congress are on almost everything. Imagine that this lack …

Rather than confront poverty by extending jobless benefits to the long-term unemployed, endorsing a higher minimum wage or supporting jobs programs, …

Resorting to its wrong-headed historical revisionism once again, the Japanese government went ahead with the announcement last Friday of a report on a 1993 …

Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to visit Seoul next week, his first trip to South Korea since he formally took office in March last year. Technically, he is …