South Korea

Magazine articles on politics and society in South Korea.

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TIME Asia November 13, 2008 Michael Schuman	A Depressed Mood South Korea's faltering economy is bringing back memories of the 1997 financial crisis - and sinking the spirits of an entire nation
TIME Europe July 31, 2008 Jennifer Veale	The National Image A team of 20 from the renowned photo agency Magnum took pictures of South Koreans doing everything from playing to patrolling the Demilitarized Zone to praying at one of the world's largest churches in an effort to see how foreigners view the country.
TIME Asia June 6, 2008 Michael Schuman	Lee's Blue House Blues In South Korea President Lee Myung Bak has been trying to adapt his hard-charging leadership style to a political arena in which mandates are shifting and conditional.
TIME Asia June 6, 2008	TIME Interview with South Korea's President Here are excerpts from a one-hour interview with South Korea's President Lee Myung Bak.
TIME Asia April 10, 2008 Michael Schuman	No Mr. Sunshine Lee Myung Bak, 66, the newly inaugurated President of South Korea, says he wants closer ties with Washington, and has vowed to take a tougher line toward his uncooperative Northern neighbor, in stark contrast to the "Sunshine Policy" Seoul has pursued for the past 10 years.
TIME Asia February 28, 2008 Michael Elliott	Presidential Pragmatism in South Korea A former businessman who himself rose from poverty, Lee Myung Bak, the new President of South Korea, makes a commitment to move his country "from the age of ideology to one of pragmatism."
TIME Europe February 28, 2008 Jennifer Veale	Watch This Space Fans of space-age cartoon futurama will be in seventh heaven when they step through the door of Samsung's Raemian Gallery Housing Experience Hall, in Seoul's Gangnam district, and enter a model apartment of the future.
TIME Asia January 9, 2008 Bill Powell	Prying Open Pyongyang Since February 2007, when North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il struck a deal with the U.S., there has been a burst of cooperation between the two Koreas.
TIME Asia October 4, 2007 Peter Ritter	Crossing the Line Between North and South Korea Hope springs eternal on the Korean peninsula. But so, alas, does futility. The road ahead to the potential reunification of North and South is long, and far from smooth.
Finance & Development June 2007 Un-Chan Chung	Korea: In Search of a New Compact Although it will take a long process of trial and error to build a well-balanced economy supported by an overarching set of accepted economic and social norms, Korea's political leadership can do a lot to improve things in the meantime.
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