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Data released by the central bank last week showed that the profitability of Korea’s listed firms slipped in the second quarter as a stronger won hit …

Korea and China held their 13th round of free trade talks in Beijing last week, making little headway in resolving differences over sensitive matters. …

President Park Geun-hye’s recent state visit to Canada and speech to the U.N. General Assembly offer a chance to think about South Korean foreign policy from …

Chinese President Xi Jinping may be good at purging the Communist Party of his rivals or the country of corruption, but he seems a very bad salesman when …

I did not have a Dickensian childhood. I had more than enough to eat, unlike orphaned Oliver Twist. I had the love and attention that was denied to poor little …

Sometimes our childhood memories haunt us or linger even after we become adults. When I was in the fourth grade, for example, a theater near my house was …

DUBAI ― The global financial crisis taught the world how profoundly interdependent our economies have become. In today’s crisis of extremism, we must …

ISTANBUL ― Talking to young tech entrepreneurs gathered at a conference here, you hear the hunger for change that is pervasive in the Middle East. They’re …

North Korea has a long history of detaining foreign citizens, especially Americans, on baseless criminal charges to use them for propaganda and “hostage …

Officials of successive administrations and industry executives have long voiced the need to bring the nation’s financial firms up to the same level as …