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| The Global Cities Index 2010 | We are at a global inflection point. Half the world's population is now urban -- and half
the world's most global cities are Asian. The 2010 Global Cities Index, a collaboration
between Foreign Policy, management consulting firm A.T. Kearney, and The Ch | Download |
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| Why Internet connections are fastest in South Korea | People in the United States basically invented the Internet. So U.S. connections must be the fastest and cheapest in the world, right? Not so much. | Download |
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| Mobile TV's Last Frontier: U.S. and Europe | In South
Korea, free-to-air mobile TV is a five-year-old fact of life. According to the country’s
broadcasters, 27 million people — 56 percent of the population — watch regularly. | Download |
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| South Korea poised to be among top economies | DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - South Korea, Asia's fourth largest economy, is well poised to
compete with major powers such as the United States and China as best performing economies in
coming years, Thomson Reuters research shows. | Download |
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| Samsung takes top spot from HP | Samsung Electronics has overtaken Hewlett-Packard as the world’s biggest technology company by sales. | Download |
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| Global E-Government Survey 2010 | Leveraging E-government at a Time of Financial and Economic Crisis | Download |
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| Korea to host G-20 summit in 2010 | The leaders of the world’s 20
largest economies will meet in
Canada in June and Korea in
November for economic policy
coordination, President Lee and
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen
Harper said in a joint press
conference in Pittsburgh, the
United | Download |
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| Korea Wins $40 Bil. UAE Nuclear Deal | A consortium led by the Korea Electric Power Corp. won a $40 billion contract
Sunday to build nuclear power plants in the United Arab Emirates, paving the way for
South Korea to become a major energy facility exporter. | Download |
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| South Korea, Japan lead in broadband quality study | South Korea surpassed Japan and Sweden to take the top spot in an annual
ranking of broadband quality, helped by its government's efforts to boost it as an IT world leader, a study
showed on September 30th, 2009. | Download |
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| Southeast Sulawesi Tribe Using Korean Alphabet to Preserve Native Tongue | A small Indonesian ethnic group with no written version of its language has decided to adopt
the Korean alphabet known as Hangul, a scholar involved in the project said on August, 2009. | Download |
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| The Independent - Best for eastern chic: Seoul | In the past few years, Seoul has emerged as one of Asia's hippest destinations – slicker and
cooler than the balmy southeast Asian cities, but less frantic and crowded than Tokyo. Some of
its best bits can be found down the quiet lanes that have an inti | Download |
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| Created for the Common Man | Of the 6,000 languages in existence today, only a hundred have their own alphabets. Of these 100, Hangul is the only alphabet made by an individual, for which the theory and motives behind its creation have been fully set out and explained. | Download |
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| Uniqueness of Korean Cuisine | There is also a uniqueness that differentiates Korean cuisine from many of its
Asian neighbors. And with only 3 percent of the Korean population over the age of
15 overweight, clearly there is something to be taught. | Download |
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| Oxford to Expand Korean Studies | The University of Oxford said it is eager to
expand Korean studies, with an aim to
create a full undergraduate degree later this
year. | Download |
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| Surgery in Korea, anyone? Medical tourism emerges | “Which hospital does the best plastic surgery
in Korea?” | Download |
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| Korea's copyright industry taps into global market | The Korean wave spurs strong growth in the sector. | Download |
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| Korea's dynamic progress | As a foreigner who has taken up longterm
residence in South Korea, two
words have come to epitomize the
country; dynamic progress ... By Daniel Fiedler
Professor of Law, Wonkwang University. | Download |
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| Korea's first astronaut transfers to space station | Korea’s first astronaut has transferred
safely to the International Space
Station (ISS) following a successful
docking in earth’s orbit, a state-run
aerospace institute said Friday (April
11). | Download |