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...SEOUL, South Korea — The months leading up to South Korea’s college-entrance exam, the College Scholastic Ability Test, are some of the most stressful in a South Korean teenager’s life. Far more than the SAT or ACT, the CSAT holds bearing on people’s well-being 20 years after they take it. If students score highly enough to get into a “SKY” university—a Seoul National University, Korea University or Yonsei University—they land on the path towards an enviable...
...suspicion fall on the Kim regime? The South Koreans immediately blamed their cousins to the north, but Seoul fingers Pyongyang for all sorts of things, and not always with much to back up its claims. But in this case, there is some circumstantial evidence to support their allegations...
Another country bristling with freelance hackers happens to be South Korea. Hackers in Seoul have been known to attack U.S. and international networks. Several U.S. servers were hit after the disqualification of a South Korean skater at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics allowed Apollo Ono to win the 1,500-m speedskating event. (See pictures of South Korean video gamers...
...SEOUL, South Korea — In Seoul, I’m staying at Ewha Womans’ University, or as some people call the area, Ewha Beauty Shop. This is in reference to the multitude of shoe shops, clothing kiosks, makeup stores and, of course, beauty shops, that hit you in a tidal wave of pink as soon as you step outside the gates. Short skirts, sky-high heels, bows, and sparkles abound. It seems strange that the college at the center of this Barbie-land has been the source of tremendous empowerment for Korean women. South Korea?...
Other types of aid haven't been flowing into North Korea as in the past, either. During the decade in which South Korea pursued its "sunshine policy" of engagement with the North, Seoul became a major trading partner and source of aid, especially of much needed fertilizer. But current South Korean President Lee Myung Bak reversed the policy when he took office in 2008, linking economic cooperation with Pyongyang's dismantlement of its nuclear-weapons program. The result is that North Korea is now more dependent than ever on its main patron, China. Nicholas Eberstadt, a North Korea expert...