In a speech at the Korea Society in New York on Sept. 9, the South Korean president said he wanted a military treaty governing the status of the 37, 000 U.S. troops in Korea to be revised quickly and reasonably.
As for the parliamentary elections, a poll conducted on March 31st by the Korea Society Opinion Institute gives Saenuri support of 38.8%, with the DUP a little over five points behind, compared with a deficit of nine points before the surveillance scandal broke.
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And over the next two weekends, kid-focused workshops designed around Korean ( 2 February), Chinese ( 9 February and 10 February) and Himalayan ( 9 February) New Year traditions will take place at the Korea Society, China Institute, Asia Society and Rubin Museum of Art, respectively.
There are military options for South Korea beyond firing missiles, said John Delury, who studies North and South Korea at the Asia Society.
If social entrepreneurship is ultimately about solving pressing social and environmental problems, the best chance Korea, or any other society that needs positive change at scale, has at succeeding is building an ecosystem that generates a large pool of socially and environmentally conscious problem solvers citizens who have the skills and confidence to drive change when they see a problem so that we can outrun problems for good.
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North Korea is a good approximation of a society driven entirely by the guardian syndrome.
In North Korea's cloistered society, images are crucial to communicating with the rank and file, according to C.
In the years to come, the youngsters who remain in South Korea's orphanages will discover they are not accepted by a society that places great stress on family background.
Some 10% of the general population and 40% of 13-to-18-year-olds are addicted to the Net, says Dr. Kim Hyun Soo, 37, head of Korea's professional society for psychologists specialized in treating Internet addiction.
Sunyoung (Sonia) Park, the founder and launch director of Ashoka Korea, on how to integrate problem solving and social entrepreneurship into a broader society.
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The Stalinist model to which North Korea adheres is unworkable, its only virtue being that it allows Kim to control his society.
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