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Park Geun-hye: Poisoned chalice of South Korea’s presidency
For the sake of archiving: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43670570
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7 astonishing stories the double agent who met Kim Jong Il in person tells us
Released in Korean cinemas last week, The Spy Gone North shows something quite different from any previous Korean films which star intelligence operatives as protagonists. There is no Jason Borne style action at all and while critics like to call it le Carré, the characters are full of fervor . I didn’t like the way the…
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China as a mirror of future
La musique est prophétique : ses pratiques et son organisation économiques sont en avance sur le reste de la société car elles explorent, beaucoup plus vite que le peut la réalité matérielle, l’ensemble des possibles selon un code donné. La musique donne à entendre ce monde nouveau qui se révélera peu à peu sous nos…
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Business in North Korea: How not to Suffer the Misfortune of Kaesong Complex
[note note_color=”#f3f3ef”]More refined version (with a proper edit) appeared on the Dissolve[/note] Business opportunity in North Korea is again gaining traction these days. Resources are abundant and labor is cheap, we’d been told numerous times about North Korea’s business potential. While some including me are quite skeptical about 86’ers‘ rosy wet dreams about business in…
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When economist approach to North Korea issue goes off the mark
[note note_color=”#f3f3ef”]More refined version (with a proper edit) appeared on the Dissolve[/note] Economics seems to shed a light of reason when sight is murky by the shade that is politics. Politics is chaotic, illogical or plain dumb (maybe both) while economics guide us, with its calm voice of science, through this raucous bazaar of human…