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Empowering women for sustainable development

Change is in the air: Today women have better access to education, health services and jobs, as well as a greater voice in politics. Progress, however, in …

[Lee Jae-min] Issues in FTA with China
[Lee Jae-min] Issues in FTA with China

The year 2014 has been quite productive for Korea in terms of free trade agreements. Australia, then Canada and China, and now New Zealand have agreed to free …

Better economic policy won’t save Japan

When I was a wee thing, just a slip of a girl launching herself into the mad and exciting world of economic policy reporting, you used to hear a lot of talk …

[Editorial] Accident waiting to happen

The fire at a pension in Damyang, South Jeolla Province, on Nov. 15 that claimed four lives and injured six others, including one who is in critical condition, …

[Editorial] Park’s 3-way summit proposal

President Park Geun-hye appears to have gained an upper hand on the Northeast Asian diplomatic stage with the proposal of a summit meeting of the leaders of …

Putin-bashing at G20 meeting was juvenile

At the Group of 20 meeting in Brisbane, Australia, over the weekend, Russian President Vladimir Putin was slighted in numerous ways, big and small. “I guess …

Obama’s troop boost in Iraq is hard to fathom

President Barack Obama said he intends to double the number of American troops in Iraq from 1,500 to 3,000. It is difficult to say why he made that decision. …

[Kim Seong-kon] Is Korea a capitalist country?
[Kim Seong-kon] Is Korea a capitalist country?

South Korea is a strange country, where capitalism, socialism and communism blend and coexist. Our economic system is capitalist, our social structure is …

There’s more dignity in defying death

The seamless vision of life, as the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin once noted, is the only way to insure individual dignity. We are only as strong as the …

[David Ignatius] Obama’s Beijing surprise
[David Ignatius] Obama’s Beijing surprise

WASHINGTON ― The photograph on Tuesday last week from Beijing was as carefully arranged as a display of Ming china: Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping …

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