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The rise of diesel cars

TransportAug 14, 2011

Diesel-powered mid-sized sedans are growing ever more popular among a slew of new models launched this year.Diesel cars took up more than 30 percent of the import market share for the first time in July, Korea Auto Industries Corp. Association said.The economically cheaper option has been in h
Customs nets more excess shoppers

IndustryAug 14, 2011

Surge may have been caused by Korea-EU FTA taking effectThe number of travelers purchasing luxury goods in Europe sharply increased after the Korea-EU free trade agreement took effect in July, the customs agency said Sunday. A total of 1,056 people were stopped by customs officials last month as the
‘More dangerous’ times ahead: World Bank chief

World BusinessAug 14, 2011

SYDNEY (AFP) ― World Bank chief Robert Zoellick on Saturday warned of a “new and more dangerous” time in the global economy, as Europe struggles to resolve its debt crisis.Zoellick said the eurozone’s sovereign debt issues were more troubling than the “medium and long-term” problems which saw the Un
Newspaper attempts to lead with iPhone, iPad apps

TechnologyAug 14, 2011

The global news media industry is faced with a make-or-break upheaval that revolves around the shift in focus toward online and mobile platforms. Over the past couple of years, newspaper companies around the world have lost their readers to online and mobile rivals.The past year was a remarkable one
Innovation implemented for better content and design

TechnologyAug 14, 2011

In the past six decades, The Korea Herald has established itself as the largest English-newspaper in Korea. It has now more than 50 percent of the nation’s market share, and has readers from around the world. In May this year, the paper took a major step forward to upgrade content for its paper
Korea’s foremost English daily dedicated to core mission

TechnologyAug 14, 2011

The Korea Herald marks its 58th anniversary on Monday. Over nearly six decades, the country’s biggest English-language newspaper has taken steps to provide accurate and reliable news and analysis to the readers.The Korea Herald started as The Korean Republic, a humble four-page tabloid, on Aug. 15,
Social media, mobile platforms transform news

Special ReportsAug 14, 2011

In new multi-platform media environment, news is becoming portable, personalized, and participatoryWhen a massive landslide hit an affluent residential town in southern Seoul on July 27, it was ordinary citizens, not professional journalists, who broke the news.An amateur video capturing a torrent o
Daegu awaits world’s top athletes

More sportsAug 14, 2011

Korean city ready for the big dayOn a blazing hot afternoon last week at the Taeneung Training Center in northeast Seoul, a group of sprinters were warming up by jogging around the running track. Their faces, necks and arms glistened with sweat as they sped up. “Since last December, we’ve been stayi
‘Daegu will help develop athletics in Asia’

More sportsAug 14, 2011

With just two weeks to go until the opening of the Daegu World Championships, the head of athletics governing body said that he was confident over Daegu’s preparations to stage the world’s biggest athletics event. “I can confidently say the facilities are world class,” said Lamine Diack, the preside
[Robert Reich] Jobs bill needed to stop double-dip

ViewpointsAug 14, 2011

Republicans repeatedly assured the nation that once the debt-limit deal was done ― capping spending, cutting the budget deficit, and getting “98 percent” of what they wanted, according to House Speaker John Boehner ― the economy would bounce back.Guess what? Just the opposite seems to be happening.
[Jeff Dietrich] Home sweet shopping cart for those on skid row

ViewpointsAug 14, 2011

It looked like an anti-terrorist takedown: five cop cars, 10 police officers, a yellow skip loader and a 5-ton dump truck. They screeched to a halt and blocked off 6th Street in front of our soup kitchen in downtown Los Angeles. But their target this spring was not a suicide bomber or a hidden nucle
[Editorial] Korea Herald birthday

EditorialAug 14, 2011

Today, The Korea Herald entered its 59th year as Korea’s window to the world and bridge to the global community, a job performed with a strong sense of dedication to public service. Born only a few weeks after the cease-fire of the Korean War, the English-language newspaper has been published withou
[Editorial] Double anniversary

EditorialAug 14, 2011

After six decades, “8.15” ― the double anniversary of the 1945 liberation from Japanese colonial rule at the end of World War II and the 1948 inauguration of the Republic of Korea’s first government ― is fading as a national day celebrating Korea’s independence. Busy Koreans need to do some soul-sea
[Peter Singer] Moving toward a planet for all apes

ViewpointsAug 14, 2011

MELBOURNE ― Two new movies released this month ― one a science-fiction blockbuster, the other a revealing documentary ― raise the issue of our relations with our closest non-human relatives, the great apes. Both dramatize insights and lessons that should not be ignored.Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of the Pla
[Meghan Daum] When being authentic requires hard work, focus

ViewpointsAug 14, 2011

Want to be authentic? Good luck! These days it takes deliberate effort, focus, even a long-term commitment to change. This might sound surprising to those of you who associate authenticity with just being yourself, but misconceptions about authenticity abound, not least among them the idea that it c