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• Don’t Discount the Need for Korean Union

  Published: September 13, 2007, 10:57 pm

  Tags: Military, East Asia, Politics, Usa, Asia, Bruce Klinger, Gnp, Lee Myung Bak, North Korea, Rok, South Korea, The Heritage Foundation

  former Seoul Mayor Lee Myung-bak, has presented a plan for inter-Korean cooperation. This is more than just, in Klinger’s argument, a “policies to fend off internal dissension and gain favor with the populace.” Some sort of economic union with North Korea responds to a majority of elite and popular South Korean

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• Koreas Summit Featured Oddly Congenial Kim

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Koreas, Summit, Featured, Oddly, Congenial, Kim, Stella Kim, Seoul, North Korea, Pyongyang, South Korea, Kim Jong Il, United States, Beijing, China, Yonsei University, The Washington Post Company, Baek Seung Joo, Kim Ki Jung, Kim Woo, Korean Peninsula, Lee Myung Bak, Roh Moo H

  SEOUL, Oct. 5 -- The summit of the two Koreas served up a peculiar conversation about where a head of state might eat the best cold noodles. It served up a peculiarly detailed commitment to a first-ever joint Olympic cheering squad that will travel by train from South to North Korea and on to the...

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• The Accent Will Kill You

  Published: November 28, 2007, 5:23 am

  Tags: Business Economy, East Asia, Globalization, Politics, 2007 Elections, Chung Dong Young, Education, English, Esl, Korea, Lee Hoi Chang, Lee Myung Bak, Rok, Tesol

  urgency to the instinct to flee. I do recall in high school, that I had a choice between four foreign languages. But, this is not the point: both the frustrated employee and the presidential candidates avoid facing how miserable the job market is. It’s not just that the public educational system needs dire reform, but where would a South

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• Lee Myung Bak- A real ‘Bulldozer’

  Published: December 21, 2007, 10:39 pm

  Tags: Lee Myung Bak A Real Bulldozer, Who S Who, News, Korea

  Myung Bak is easily known by his nick name “Bulldozer, he gained that figure in the era when South Korea made the remarkable appear nearly regular. Lee soared his triumph in the 17th presidential election in South Korea. Two decades ago, when Lee owned Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co. , the nation made a nonviolent changeover

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• Cha’s Wish List

  Published: January 11, 2008, 5:26 am

  Tags: East Asia, Politics, Usa, Dprk, George W Bush, Kim Yong Nam, Korea, Lee Myung Bak, Rok

  for ROK President-Elect Lee Myung-bak is certainly humble, if still wrong. As a businessman, Lee will hopefully revise, discard, or adopt these and other new projects based on what makes economic sense. If there are any political criteria for the projects, it should not be an ideological addiction to sunshine policy, but rather true

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• Korea For Sale, Cheaply

  Published: January 10, 2008, 6:21 am

  Tags: Business Economy, East Asia, Globalization, Adnan Khashoggi, Korea, Lee Myung Bak, Rok

  to the World" to "Lee the Huckster". Lee also contacted multinational investors based in the U.S. and China, who are reportedly willing to put US$10 billion into Korea. Meanwhile, Lee will send Sagong Il, head of the national competitiveness special committee of the presidential Transition Committee as an envoy to the Davos

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• WORLD IN BRIEF

  Published: January 17, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: World, Brief, Badri Patarkatsishvili, Fidel Castro, United States, Mikhail Saakashvili, Mexico, Serbia, Georgia, Kosovo, Boris Berezovsky, Boris Tadic, Lee Myung Bak, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Michael Mukasey, Seoul, North Korea, Russia, South Korea, United Nations Secu

  Fidel Castro said in an essay published Wednesday that he is not yet healthy enough to speak to Cubans in person and cannot campaign for Sunday's parliamentary elections.

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• Pro-Business, for Koreans

  Published: January 21, 2008, 6:52 am

  Tags: Business Economy, East Asia, Globalization, Immigration, Politics, Busan, China, Labor, Lee Myung Bak, Phiippines

  that when Koreans say that Lee Myung-Bak is "pro-business," what they really mean is that they hope he is pro-Korean business, in the sense that he will return the country to the days when the government subsidized Korea companies (who then guaranteed lifetime employment) while protecting the local economy from the rigors of global

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• S. Korea Mourns Landmark Lost to Arson

  Published: February 14, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Korea, Mourns, Landmark, Lost, Arson, Seoul, Stella Kim, South Korea, Kim Jung Ja, Lee Myung Bak, Roh Moo Hyun, The Alamo, New York

  SEOUL, Feb. 13 -- To appreciate the fury that has gripped South Korea since Sunday, imagine this:

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• WORLD IN BRIEF

  Published: February 21, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: World, Brief, Kosovo, United States, United Nations, Jesus Rey David Alfaro, Kenneth Roth, Tijuana, Nato, Russia, Darfur, Oregon, Abu Ayyub Al Masri, Baghdad, Bernard Kouchner, Caracas, Gregory J Smith, Jorge Gechem, Lee Myung Bak, Moscow Kremlin, Orla Clinton, Raila Oding

  The U.S. military said Wednesday that two women used as suicide bombers in attacks this month had undergone psychiatric treatment but that there was no indication they had Down syndrome, as Iraqi and U.S. officials initially asserted.

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• Halting the Slide

  Published: February 25, 2008, 7:52 am

  Tags: East Asia, Politics, Dprk, Korea, Lee Myung Bak, Roh Moo Hyun, Rok

  to a passage in President Lee Myung-bak's Inaugural Address about obeying the law. But the fanfare of traditional horns could not drown out the fact that South Korea's bitterly partisan politics have barely paused for breath. Lee's speech urged an end to "wasteful political disputes" that are alienating voters. But the two months

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• Ethically Challenged

  Published: February 28, 2008, 9:26 pm

  Tags: Business Economy, East Asia, Politics, Subscriptions, Han Seung Soo, Korea, Lee Chun Ho, Lee Myung Bak, Nam Joo Hong, Park Eun Kyung, Rok, Speculation

  opinion of President Lee Myung-bak with immediate reactions highlights what those snap judgments slighted. The president, elected last December, has made a poor start to his five-year term. Mr Lee, cleared this month of any wrongdoing in a failed investment scheme, nevertheless faces public suspicion over the past business dealings that

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• Conservatives Win Majority In South Korea

  Published: April 10, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Conservatives, Win, Majority, South, Korea, North Korea, Grand National Party, Hyundai Motor Company, Lee Myung Bak, Seoul, National Election Commission, South Korea, United Democratic Party, United States, Washington Dc

  SEOUL, April 10 -- Conservatives allied with South Korea's president claimed a parliamentary majority Thursday, boosting the government's plans to revive the economy, embrace the United States and take a firmer line with North Korea.

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• Huge Gap Predicted In Supply Of Food

  Published: April 17, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Huge, Gap, Predicted, Supply, Food, North Korea, Tony Banbury, United Nations World Food Programme, China, South Korea, United Nations, Bangkok, Jean Pierre De Margerie, Lee Myung Bak, Pyongyang, Food And Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations, Asia

  TOKYO, April 16 -- North Korea is facing a humanitarian crisis this year and will likely need large food donations from the international community, the U.N. World Food Program said Wednesday.

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• U.S. Team Headed to Pyongyang in Search of 'Significant Progress'

  Published: April 22, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: U S, Team, Headed, Pyongyang, Search, Significant, Progress, North Korea, United States, George W Bush, Led Sung Kim, U S Department Of State, Kim Jong Il, Lee Myung Bak, Camp David, Israel, Yongbyon

  SEOUL, April 21 -- For the first time since the United States eased demands on North Korea for nuclear disclosure, a U.S. delegation is headed to the communist state to try to verify the extent of its nuclear program.

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