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8 hrs ago | Bloomberg.com - Asia

Hyosung Withdraws Bid for South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor; Shares Surge

Hyosung Corp. , the South Korean chemicals and trading company, said it abandoned a bid for Hynix Semiconductor Inc.

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16 hrs ago | People's Daily Online

Shootout at sea erupts off Korean Peninsula

Vessels from the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea exchanged gunfire yesterday for the first time in seven years.

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Wed Nov 11, 2009

JoongAng Ilbo English News

Korea and Chile agree to update 2003 FTA

Students greet Chile s President Michelle Bachelet and President Lee Myung-bak during a welcoming ceremony yesterday at the Blue House in Seoul.

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Related Topix: South America, Chile, World News, Michelle Bachelet, South Korea,

Tue Nov 10, 2009

People's Daily

Inter-Korean exchanges not to be affected by naval clash

South Korea on Tuesday said the existing inter-Korean exchanges and cooperation will go forward as usual and not be affected by an earlier naval clash with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea .

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JoongAng Ilbo English News

North tops agenda for the Lee-Obama summit

The nuclear impasse with North Korea, a free trade agreement with South Korea and Seoul s contribution to rebuilding Afghanistan are key topics to be addressed during President Lee Myung-bak and U.S. President Barack Obama s summit next week, senior officials from the two countries presidential offices said yesterday.

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Related Topix: North Korea, World News, Asia, South Korea, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama,

Mon Nov 09, 2009

English Dong-A

[Editorial] Let the People Decide on Sejong City

The slogans 'The conscience of the country's next century' and 'politics of trust that keeps promises' sound great, but are just hollow rhetoric to the people.

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Related Topix: South Korea, North Korea, World News, Asia,

People's Daily Online

Seoul officially announced as host city of G20 summit of next year

Seoul, the capital of South Korea, was officially selected as the host city of the Group of 20 summit to be held in November next year, the South Korean government announced on Monday.

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People's Daily Online

S Korean, US presidents to discuss progress on FTA

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will discuss ways to ratify the South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement with his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama when they meet for a bilateral summit in Seoul later this month, the presidential office said Monday.

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Independent Online

How prepared are Koreas for reunification?

Seoul - Twenty years after the Berlin Wall fell, South Korean newspapers on Monday urged the government to prepare in case the world's last Cold War frontier - with communist North Korea - collapses suddenly.

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Sun Nov 08, 2009

NationMultimedia.com - Politics

Move to ditch martime MoU short-sighted

The government's move to scrap the maritime deal with Cambodia is not a "hit where it hurts" decision as it is based on sketchy information over interests in the overlapping areas in the Gulf of Thailand.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Cambodia, Travel, Cambodia Travel, Hun Sen, Singapore

JoongAng Ilbo English News

Lee vows no unproductive summit with Kim

President Lee Myung-bak reiterated his position yesterday that he has no intention to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il just for the mere sake of having an inter-Korean summit.

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Related Topix: North Korea, World News, Asia, US News, US Politics, Barack Obama,

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

South Korean workers protest gov't labor policy

Tens of thousands of South Korean workers rallied Saturday to protest the government's plan to begin implementing contentious labor laws.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

Reuters

USTR Kirk says Skouras trade pact needs new auto deal

South Korea must do more to open its market to U.S. cars before President Barack Obama will send a free trade agreement signed in June 2007 to Congress for a vote, the chief U.S. trade negotiator said on Thursday.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, South Korea, World News

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Chosun Ilbo

Nuclear Program 'Biggest Hurdle' to Cooperation with N.Korea

President Lee Myung-bak on Wednesday said North Korea's nuclear program remains the biggest hurdle to inter-Korean cooperation.

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Related Topix: North Korea, World News, Asia, South Korea, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

International Business Times

South Korea drops weakest 2020 emissions cut target

South Korea, the OECD's fastest-growing carbon polluter, has ditched its weakest voluntary 2020 emissions target and will choose one of two stricter options ahead of a global meeting in Copenhagen.

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Wed Nov 04, 2009

JoongAng Ilbo English News

U.S. says North nuclear move violates resolution

The United States said North Korea has violated its own denuclearization commitments and United Nations Security Council resolutions with its reprocessing of plutonium for atomic weapons production.

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Korea Herald

Lee calls for Sejong plan revision

President Lee Myung-bak yesterday strongly signaled his opposition to a controversial plan to build a new administrative city outside Seoul.

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Chosun Ilbo

N.Korea 'Preparing for Possible Return to Nuke Talks'

A Russian representative announced that North Korea is gearing up for a potential return to the multilateral negotiating table depending on the outcome of upcoming bilateral talks with the U.S. Stressing that this does not necessarily mean the six-party nuclear talks, Georgy Toloraya, director of the Korean program at the Russian Academy of ...

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Related Topix: North Korea, World News, Asia, Travel, North Korea Travel,

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Free Republic

US, SKorea draw up plan on NKorea's possible collapse

The United States and its ally South Korea have drawn up a contingency plan to cope with emergencies in North Korea, including a possible regime change there, a report said Sunday.

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Related Topix: South Korea, World News, Asia, Fresno, CA

Mon Nov 02, 2009

JoongAng Ilbo English News

Lee says he won t duck Sejong City

Prime Minister Chung Un-chan, right, faces attacks by opposition party lawmakers yesterday at the National Assembly as he tried to read a budget address on behalf of President Lee Myung-bak. [YONHAP] As the political quagmire over the Sejong City project rapidly deepened throughout yesterday, the Blue House said President Lee Myung-bak has no ...

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