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Song Seung-Ha of "Songgwang Happy Town," Leader of Social Enterprises Hiring the Disabled
President & CEO Song Seung-Ha of "Songgwang Happy Town" is proud of himself at a small factory at the tip of South Korea's southernmost island of Yeosu. His social welfare enterprise ...

CSIS Commission on the Korean Peninsula: Recommendations for the US-Korea Alliance
Peninsula Recommendations for the US-Korea Alliance
By Victor Cha
CSIS Korea Chair
The US-Korea alliance has faced headwinds in recent years generated by the shifting geopolitical dynamics of US-China rivalry and transactional alliance issues, all while being unable to ...

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Zen and the Art of Ziplining at Lake Norman

By Greg Evans
Special Correspondent
You may not have even realized it existed, a zipline, a stone¡¯s throw from the seashell scattered shoreline of Lake Norman. In the early morning dawn, when it is quiet when the cool water lapping ...

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Turkey Emerges as the Global Power

By MA Hossain
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The changing dynamics of globalisation, post-Cold War era, has brought forth systemic changes shifting the centres of power. In the 21st century, the Western world is gradually losing its appeal, which ...

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¡°Got7¡± Seeks Its Heyday with New Album ¡°Encore¡±
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"7 or nothing," A very famous sentence for this K-Pop group called ¡°Got7.¡± Got7 is one of the few multi-ethnic groups, so it is not surprising that they have so many fans around the world, but they ...

Letters from America
The Proper Etiquette for Street Fighting in Bath & Body Works

By Greg Evans
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Kim Kwang-Ki, former editorial writer of the mass-circulation daily JoongAng Ilbo, has recently been inaugurated as the publisher & CEO of ESG Economy, the online economic daily specializing in ...

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The Door — 1999 ~ Adventure during My Teenage Years

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My name is Yashodhara Ishanvi Chowdary and I am 38 years old now. I have a vivid memory of the adventure that I had when I was 17 years old and was in my final year of school. What I am about to ...

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The Silent Voices — A Look inside the Work of Women¡¯s Rights Activist Marilyn Roustand

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