Urban Sketchers (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Doota Building near East Gate Jewely shop, Chongro 3-ga East Gate mannequins, Doota Building Chunggyechun, restored Heungin market under construction * East Gate is national treasure. We sketched around it. There are big markets near it. Especially clothing business is concentrated in that district. New buildings are under construction related with clothes, fiber, textile. Maybe the area will be the...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
* Memory chip issues down on U.S. semiconductor index's losses
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
SEOUL, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Seoul shares reversed their earlier losses and ended flat on Friday helped by gains LG Electronics , but losses in memory chip issues such as Samsung Electronics weighed.
Financial Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
South Korea plans to allow naked short selling of bonds next year to attract more foreign participation in the country’s underdeveloped and illiquid bond market
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
SEOUL, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Seoul shares are likely to open lower on Friday after falls overnight on Wall Street, while exporters and the won <KRW=> will be eyed amid the currency's latest volatility.
Arts Reader (Free subscription) | yesterday
If this email is not displayed correctly, please click on the following link or open your browser and paste the link into the address field: http://view.ed4.net/v/DHGUVV/SJIK4/53PV1L/GDXI4/ Markets morning briefing Friday November 20 2009 FT.com - Financial Markets News Risk fatigue sparks correction speculation Global Markets Overview: Talk that the dollar could be near its nadir leads to a growing...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
SEOUL -- With none of the tension presented by a rising China and a willful Japan, President Obama's visit to South Korea on Thursday was short, congenial in substance and splendid in form.
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | yesterday
A report that "the city council handed over responsibility for it to the Christian Council of Korea (CCK), an umbrella organization of conservative Protestant Churches, in 2002," and that "[s]ince then, the group has replaced the traditional star atop the tree, which is usually put up on Dec. 10, with a cross"— Christmas tree cross raises fears of sectarian tensions . "This...
clusterflock (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I was reminded of this recently. I believe it was my third or fourth post ever on clusterflock. It’s still fantastic.
Worldfocus (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Obama administration is trying tackle the thorny issue of North Korea and its nuclear program. To take a closer look at this issue, Leon Sigal of the Social Science Research Council in New York speaks with Daljit Dhaliwal. Sigal discusses the significance of Obama's announcement to send an envoy to North Korea next month. [...]
People Daily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
&$ &$U.S. President Barack Obama meets with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in a bilateral meeting at the Blue House in Seoul, November 19, 2009.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)&$ &$ U.S. President Barack Obama left Seoul, where he met with his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung-bak on Thursday, wrapping up his four-nation Asia trip. Before he flew home from the U.S. air base at arou ...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I used to be the foreign editor of In These Times in Chicago. I didn’t particularly enjoy the job, because I have never been fascinated with the world outside of the United States. I am not sure whether I could find Honduras or Liberia on a map, and I have never mastered the current spelling of Chinese names. (It’s Mao Zedong not Mao Tse-Tung.) But I thought at the time that my ignorance...
Asian Truly (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Citing progress on a trip that took him from Tokyo to Seoul, President Obama noted that "Asia is a region where we now buy more goods and do more trade with than any other place in the world -- commerce that supports millions of jobs back home."
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
SEOUL (AP) | South Korea's foreign minister Friday ruled out additional negotiations with the United States over a free-trade agreement, a day after the presidents of the two countries vowed cooperation to push the stalled deal forward. The ambitious accord, signed more than two years ago, has languished in political limbo as U.S. officials insist it does not adequately address a wide gap in auto trade...
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