Asia Sentinel

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How have some countries succeeded in avoiding widening wealth gaps?

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With its population aging, the country looks for a way to make money out of the phenomenon

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"Nation Brand" Survey Results show rapper PSY did what he could for his country

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Newly registered marriages fell to an all-time low last year, study finds

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She says she's willing to try

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Korean pop group JYJ gains freedom, pointing the way for other groups

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Conservatives and liberals both want the government to help them

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Poster child or stepchild of the US nuclear nonproliferation regime?

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Meetings marred by unsuccessful industry interference

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The marginalized take out their frustrations through violence

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Mobile telephone technology is having a profound effect on the poorest of the poor

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SM Entertainment attempts to consign a rebellious pop group to oblivion

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Public outrage at corruption, income inequality put Samsung in the cross-hairs

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Nonproliferation agreement between the two countries lapses in 2014. South wants modifications

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Apple's Pyrrhic Court Victory

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Lee Myung-Bak's sanctions hurt his country's firms more than the north

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Tensions over the north, other issues roil the waters

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Disputed islet specks foment trouble

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City's dramatic response to 2011 inundation

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Although the country’s population surpasses 50 million, there’s little cause for celebration

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Rising public anger over murder, dismemberment of woman spurs demands for return of capital punishment

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Ideological blowout rocks the country

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Current treaty handicaps South Korea's Energy Development

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With more college graduates than jobs, the government wrestles with what to do with them

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The Boryeong Mud Festival, where the grimy go to play

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A Korean Frenchwoman kicks off a discussion of ethnic origins

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Search to replace local depleted fishing stocks takes South Korean trawlers across the planet

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Little of significance despite the presence of the world’s most powerful leaders

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Cosmetics is the new obsession in Seoul, report says

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China appears intent on sending them back to be murdered

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Growing obesity problem generates new industries to seek to slim them down

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Shamans at work in an industrial society

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Things look bleak for the Grand National Party

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Massive construction job envisioned -- but don't hold your breath

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The View from Seoul on Kim’s death

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Despite a faltering birth rate, Korea still exports more adoptees than any other country

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Sort of.

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With a year to go before national elections, the governing Grand National Party faces trouble

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A chaebol engineers up an odd observance

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“Irregular workers” shake society

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Grand National Party faces bleak prospects in national elections

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How pop groups are manufactured

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President Lee Myung-bak faces an increasingly hostile public

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Right-wing advocates would like to see the South develop a nuclear option

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We have been here before.

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Devastating rains move the government to plan for a harsh, wet new reality

Still up there for more than 200 days, an unlikely protester sparks a movement

Seoul wants a blue-water navy

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{mosimage}God's messengers spread more than Christianity

{mosimage}A church glut mystifies the natives in Mindoro

What ought to be one of the developed world’s most solid currencies is trashed by currency speculators

Korean Buddhists, fired by allegations of religious bias from the Lee administration, take to the streets but the real reason lies much deeper.

The US gets involved in a tiff between Japan and South Korea over some obscure rocks in the Sea of Japan

Seoul may soon designate dogs as livestock, which is what the animals already are at a popular dog-meat market

Assembly polls to take place against backdrop of tension with Pyongyang

New president said to have hired bribe-takers for his team

Massive conglomerates appear ready to make a comeback under President Lee Myung-bak

Longstanding alliance could be strengthened by new President Lee but North Korea policy unlikely to change much

A disgruntled former executive alleges widespread bribes and corruption by Korea’s biggest industrial group

Is Korea’s biggest company hiding vast amounts of cash for illegal purposes?

South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun’s three-day visit to Pyongyang is high on symbolism and short on substance

A South Korean businessman convicted of a savage beating is released from prison on appeal

Hyundai Motor's Chairman escapes a prison term… for cash

Korean evangelism questioned as the Taliban threaten to execute the remaining 22 hostages.

An academic scandal in Seoul’s art world brings a high-flying young woman down to earth.

Seoul ventures from behind its tariff walls to a new future

South Korea faces a serious fall in the birth rate that could mean trouble