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5 hrs ago | Customer Interaction Solutions

Koreans increasingly shun book reading: poll

Nearly three out of every 10 South Korean adults do not read one single book the whole year, a government survey showed Friday, indicating a growing number of people are choosing other interests such as Web surfing and watching TV over reading.

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11 hrs ago | The Economist

Restructuring South Korea's chaebol: A helping hand

Is the government taking a hard enough line with indebted conglomerates? Reuters In the middle of a makeover ON THE face of things, the restructuring of South Korea's heavily indebted family-owned conglomerates is proceeding apace.

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19 hrs ago | BBC

North Korea tunes in to commercial world with beer advert

North Korea's first TV beer commercial is set to be "the new look of Pyongyang" North Korea's latest launch is not missiles, but a TV advertising campaign for a locally-brewed beer.

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Related Topix: Beer, Drink, North Korea, World News, Asia,

Thu Jul 02, 2009

China Daily

US: DPRK's missile launches 'not helpful'

WASHINGTON: The United States said on Thursday that the missile test-fires by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are "not helpful" and are "dangerous." "North Korea knows exactly what it has to do ... They need to cut out these kinds of provocative actions and return to denuclearization talks," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told a ...

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Taipei Times

South Korean satellite TV fan proves unlikely hero

A bachelor farmer has found a way to turn his obsession with satellite TV dishes into a community service and a link to the wider world beyond his village By Choe Sang-hun NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE, YEONGJU, SOUTH KOREA Friday, Jul 03, 2009, Page 9 Lee Si-kap, a shy farmer living in the central South Korean town of Yeongju, holds a record: He owns more ...

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ETaiwanNews.com

New AIT director will do 'Fantastic job,' says Young

Premier Liu Chao-shiuan, right, toasts outgoing American Institute in Taiwan Director Stephen Young during a cocktail reception held yesterday to mark U.S. Independence Day tomorrow.

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Related Topix: Travel, Southeast Asia, Taiwan Travel, World News, Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan Travel

BusinessWeek

North Korea's GDP Growth Better Than South Korea's

When it comes to economic performance, it's hard to believe that impoverished North Korea could do better than its affluent capitalist neighbor to the south.

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Related Topix: North Korea, World News, Asia, Kim Jong Il, Agriculture, Science

Kilsyth Today

a nation's thanks to a veteran it is more than 50 years since Tom...

IT IS more than 50 years since Tom Barrie set off to fight in the Korean War. Just 19 years old, he was to spend two years in the war-torn country.

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Related Topix: History in the News, World News, Asia, Lee Myung-bak, Life, Veteran Affairs

Ridgway Record

Letters From Home recognized by Armed Forces

Throughout the years the Letters From Home organization has received a myriad of plaques, certificates, accommodations, U.S. flags, photos and much more from American military men and women stationed around the world in appreciation of the organization's efforts in supporting the U.S. Armed Forces.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, US Military, US Air Force, Johnsonburg, PA, Erie, PA, Erie Metro, Ridgway, PA

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Light Reading

South Koreans Get Rich

The GSMA today announced that the world's first interoperable enhanced communication service incorporating key elements of the GSMA's Rich Communication Suite specifications is now a live commercial service in South Korea.

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People's Daily Online

Shanghai driver arrested over road accident involving deaths of 4 Koreans

A driver was formally arrested Tuesday in Shanghai for his role in a road accident early this month that left five people dead, including four women from the Republic of Korea and a Chinese male driver inside the same taxi.

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Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Golf Diary: In Japan and South Korea, natives are kind

Christina Stockton and Brittany Smith are among 10 members of the Collegiate All-Star Women's Golf Team in the midst of a 20-day trip to Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Travel, South Korea Travel, Rancho Murieta, CA, UC Davis,

Daily Yomiuri

South Korea increasing drive for FTAs

South Korea is aggressively expanding its free trade agreement network, aiming at rebuilding its economy damaged by the global financial crisis through the increase of automotive and electrical exports.

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Related Topix: Asia, World News, Lee Myung-bak

Localnewsdaily.com

Suspected North Korea arms ship changes course

A North Korean ship tracked by the U.S. Navy on suspicion of carrying a banned arms cargo may be returning home, a U.S. official said, as Washington cracks down on companies helping Pyongyang export missile systems.

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Related Topix: North Korea, World News, Asia, US Military, US Navy,

Tue Jun 30, 2009

People's Daily Online

DPRK: U.S., S Korea commit over 200 cases of aerial spying in June

The United States and South Korea committed more than 200 cases of aerial spying in June, official media of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea reported Tuesday citing a military source.

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MSN Money

Japan's Elpida secures lifeline with $1.7 billion aid

Japan pledged to shore up Elpida Memory Inc with public money, bringing the total aid coming to the loss-making chip maker to $1.7 billion as it struggles compete with its larger South Korean rivals.

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New America Media

N.Y. Korean Suicide Rate Skyrockets

More than 30 Koreans in New York City have committed suicide this year. According to a Korea Times survey of the three major Korean funeral parlors in New York and New Jersey -- Jung-Ang Funeral Parlor, Je-Mi Funeral Parlor and Kim, Ki-Ho Yae Hospital -- 31 Koreans committed suicide between January and June 26th.

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Related Topix: Asia, World News, Suicide

Independent Online

Say no to sex-related taboos

Seoul - South Korea's first swingers' club - where couples can swap partners for sex - has made a roaring debut, leaving police who want to close it down struggling to respond.

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Honolulu Star-Bulletin

Hawaii students in South Korea released from quarantine

All 21 public high school students and three of the chaperones on the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council trip to South Korea have resumed their travel itinerary after being quarantined over swine flu fears.

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Related Topix: Travel, South Korea Travel, Education Etc., H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, World News,

Reuters

What do we know about Kim Jong-il and North Korea?

Former U.S. defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld's attempts to be philosophical about 'known unknowns' and 'unknown unknowns' gave him a reputation for slipperiness and cant.

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