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- Left adrift
- Men aboard the fishing vessel Dongwon have been held hostage on their ship off the coast of Somalia for months.
A Korean reporter recently managed to visit the ship and talk...
- Jul.26,2006 11:01 KST
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- A life of craftsmanship
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Ironsmith Heo Chang-gu makes a scythe out of recycled iron in his small workshop. Heo, 61, has manufactured scythes, hoes, and other metal implements in a traditional mann...
- Jul.26,2006 10:21 KST
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- North, South relations continue to deteriorate
- North Korea is taking steps to put pressure on South Korea by halting the construction of a reunion center at Mount Geumgang as well as video reunions of separated families sche...
- Jul.25,2006 12:50 KST
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- [Column] A Korea-U.S. trade agreement: what is at stake?
- Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research
There has been considerable opposition within South Korea to the proposed trade agreement with the Uni...
- Jul.25,2006 12:40 KST
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- Unification Minister faces tough job
- The face of Unification Minister Lee Jong-seok looked fatigued as he held a regularly scheduled briefing on July 20. An aide of the minister said that Lee "had not slept and ste...
- Jul.25,2006 12:26 KST
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- [Column] The WHO’s Lee Jong-wook and aid for North Korea
- Seo Hong-kwan, National Cancer Center Smoking Clinic
Last week, I attended a conference about cancer and smoking in Washington D.C. When it began, John Seffrin, head of the ...
- Jul.25,2006 11:53 KST
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- Reporting from Beirut, a land of destruction
- Jeong Moon Tae, freelance war correspondant
BEIRUT, Lebanon. I ran along a Beirut-to-Damascus route that both invaders and refugees have used throughout the history of this l...
- Jul.25,2006 11:34 KST
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- TV show staff buys back Korean cultural artifact
- The staff of a South Korean television program raised money to return a cultural artifact to Korea. The group, staff members of the MBC-TV show “Exclamation Point!,” bought the ...
- Jul.25,2006 11:21 KST
