Obama, South Korea leader to tout trade pact in Detroit area
President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will travel to Metro Detroit next Friday to tout the benefits of a free trade deal between the two nations.
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South Korea-N. Korea food shortage not serious
North Korea’s food shortages do not seem to be very serious, South Korea’s minister for cross-border affairs said Thursday, in an assessment sharply at odds with United Nations agencies.
N.Korea could conduct third nuclear test
North Korea could conduct a third nuclear test or another missile launch before next year’s US and South Korean presidential elections if disarmament talks fail, a senior Seoul official warned on Friday.
Battle to sell the iPhone heats up in Japan
Japan’s third-largest mobile carrier Softbank on Friday unveiled a lower monthly fee for the new iPhone than bigger rival KDDI, as competition for smartphone users heats up among the nation’s mobile firms.
Japan thankful for post-disaster worlds
Japan thanked gymnasts from around the globe Friday for taking part in the world championships in Tokyo despite lingering fears of radiation from a disaster-stricken nuclear power plant.
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S.Korea Sunshine Policy
In 1992, a civilian, Kim Young-sam, won election and began to build a real democracy. Although a charter member of the old ruling groups, Kim had resigned his National Assembly seat in the 1960s when Rhee tried to amend the constitution and had since been a thorn in the side of the military governments along with Kim Dae-jung.
S.Korea Postwar Recovery
The 1950s were a time of depressing stagnation for the South but rapid industrial growth for the North. Then, over the next 30 years, both Koreas underwent rapid industrial growth.
The Korean War
In the immediate aftermath of the obliteration of Nagasaki, three Americans in the War Department (including Dean Rusk, later Secretary of State) drew a fateful line at the 38th parallel in Korea, dividing this nation that had a unitary integrity going back to antiquity. The line was supposed to demarcate the areas in which American and Soviet forces would receive the Japanese surrender
Korea And Japan
In 2005 the South Korean president refused to hold a summit meeting with the Japanese prime minister because the latter insisted on visiting the Yasukuni shrine
Royal Of Korea Pomp&Ceremony
any of the premier cultural attractions in Korea today, such as Seoul’s Gyeongbokgung, Namdaemun and Changdeokgung, are imperial relics of the long-lived Joseon dynasty.
Travel
South Korea: Kids, Stop Studying So Hard
On a wet Wednesday evening in Seoul, six government employees gather at the office to prepare for a late-night patrol. The mission is as simple as it is counterintuitive: to find children who are studying after 10 p.m. And stop them.
Chinese tourist numbers peak for Golden Week
BEIJING, Sept. 30 (Xinhuanet) — Even as some travel destinations struggle to attract tourists, flocks of Chinese are expected to go overseas during the National Day holiday, according to the country’s top tourism think tank.
The China Tourism Academy, a research institute, forecasts that 2.2 million Chinese tourists will travel overseas during the weeklong holiday that starts on Oct 1.
Tips for travel in beautiful Autumn
If you don’t feel like traveling, stay in Beijing. There are plenty to see actually. There is Xiangshan Park or the Great Wall. But these places will be packed with visitors. And if you don’t like the crowd, drive out of Beijing.
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Health
The Pathological Altruist Gives Till Someone Hurts
The Pathological Altruist Gives Till Someone Hurts
Keep Kids in Rear-Facing Car Seats
Many American parents place their children in forward-facing car seats at too young an age, a new study indicates.
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The Special Relationship Between Korea And China
Smack in the middle of the grand Sejongno boulevard in Seoul is a gigantic statue of Admiral Yi Sun-sin, whose artful naval manoeuvres saved Korea from Japanese conquest in the 1590s.
Last Dynasty In Korea History
The overthrow of the Mongols by the Ming dynasty in China (1316–1644) gave an opportunity to rising groups of Korean military men to contest for power.
The rise of the Mongols
The Goryeo aristocracy was by no means a class without merit, however. It admired and interacted with the splendid Chinese civilisation that emerged during the contemporaneous Song dynasty (960–1279).
Unification under Goryeo
A formidable military leader named Wang Geon had defeated Shilla as well as some Baekje remnants by 930, and established a flourishing dynasty, Goryeo, from whence came the name Korea.
Shilla Ascendancy
Shilla emerged victorious on the peninsula in 668, and it is from this famous date that South Korean historians speak for the first time of a unified Korea. This brought an end to the era of the Three Kingdoms,
Buddhism in Korea
Buddhism came to Korea from China in the latter part of the Three Kingdoms era, establishing itself first in Goguryeo and Baekje in the late 4th century and then in Shilla in the early 6th century.
The Three Kingdoms In Korean History
Around the time of Christ three ancient kingdoms emerged that influenced Korean history down to our time. The first state to emerge in the Three Kingdoms era (57 BC–AD 668) was Baekje (Paekche), which was a centralised, aristocratic state melding Chinese and indigenous influence.
The First Korean
The imagined beginning of the Korean nation was the 3rd millennium BC, when a king named Dangun founded old Joseon. Joseon (also spelled Choson) remains the name of the country in North Korea, but South Koreans use the term ‘Hanguk’, a name dating from the 1890s.
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