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  • South Koreas jobless rate falls

    South Korea News.Net - Wednesday 14th November, 2012

    South Korea's jobless rate fell to 2.8 percent last month due to strong job creation in the manufacturing sector, but job creation for all industries slowed sharply due to a base effect, a ...

  • South Koreas trade surplus grows

    South Korea News.Net - Wednesday 14th November, 2012

    South Korea's trade surplus grew to $3.73 billion last month due to an export rebound that offset a rise in imports, customs data showed Wednesday. According to the Korea Customs Service (KCS), the ...

  • Korea-EU FTA an Opportunity to Beat Crisis

    Chosun Ilbo - Wednesday 14th November, 2012

    The Oxford English Dictionary has chosen "omnishambles" as the word of the year 2012, it said Monday. The word, defined as "a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, ...

  • China Outpaces Its Rivals on Road to Recovery

    Chosun Ilbo - Wednesday 14th November, 2012

    The Oxford English Dictionary has chosen "omnishambles" as the word of the year 2012, it said Monday. The word, defined as "a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, ...

  • Woman at Center of Petraeus Scandal is S. Korea Honorary Consul

    VOA - Wednesday 14th November, 2012

    SEOUL -- South Korea's foreign ministry has confirmed to VOA that Jill Kelley, who is at the center of a scandal that has led to the resignation of the CIA director, is still serving as one of ...

  • S. Korea presidential hopefuls fail to unite talks suspended

    SINA - Wednesday 14th November, 2012

    South Korea's two left-leaning presidential hopefuls suspended merger talks Wednesday because of disagreement over the selection of a single candidate to contest the December poll. "We ...

  • Launch of Russia - South Korea Naro-1 rocket again postponed

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  • The Insider Floridas Natural Growers Shipping Products to South Korea in April

    The Ledger - Wednesday 14th November, 2012

    Florida's Natural Growers will begin shipping orange juice products to South Korea in April under a new agreement with Maeil Dairy Industry Co., one of that country's top three dairy and ...

  • South Korea Jobless Rate Falls Unexpectedly

    RTT News - Wednesday 14th November, 2012

    Unemployment rate in South Korea edged down in October, despite a slowdown in the pace of job creation in the economy, the latest figures from Statistics Korea showed Wednesday. The seasonally ...

  • Seoul to ban smoking in all indoor facilities by 2020

    Asia News Network - Tuesday 13th November, 2012

    The Seoul government aims to make the capital a smoke-free city by 2020 in line with the World Health Organisation's policy encouraging its members to reduce ...

  • Americas N.Korea Envoy Lying Low

    Chosun - Tuesday 13th November, 2012

    Morning temperatures on Wednesday in inland regions were 5 to 7 degrees Celsius lower than Tuesday. Central Korea saw heavy winds to make it feel like -7 to -8 degrees Celsius. The morning low on ...

  • S. Korea presidents son to face tax probe

    The West Australian - Tuesday 13th November, 2012

    AFP ? <p>Lee Si-Hyung (C), South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak's only son, speaks to the media as he arrives at the special prosecutor's office in Seoul in October 2012. South ...

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    Former Navy Chaplain Says Marriage Equality Wins a Sign of the ...

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    Radio host David Pakman welcomed anti-gay activist and former Navy chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt on to his show to get his reaction to the marriage equality wins in the past election.

    Said Klingenschmitt:

    "I think this confirms something that Jesus said - that broad is the road that leads to destruction and many enter into it. But narrow is the road that leads to eternal life and only a few find it. So I wouldn't be surprised if most people in America voted against God and against God's values if that wasn't a confirmation of something that Jesus predicted would come in the End Times, that there would be a massive rebellion against God, that people would turn to Satan, that people would have all kinds of sin and embrace sin as the law of the land. I'm not surprised that this is happening eventually. I'm just saddened that it's happening so soon to America."

    Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

    In related news, Klingenschmitt also made the rounds to City on a Hill radio, where he discussed Sen. Al Franken?s Student Non-Discrimination Act as well as gay adoption and equality in the military, Right Wing Watch reports.

    He warned that the Obama administration will soon allow gay and lesbian service members in relationships to collect ?homosexual bonus pay? and ?homosexualize base houses? and ?have gay pride parades on the flight line? on air force bases. Klingenschmitt went on to maintain that gay couples adopting children are committing ?child abuse? and only adopt with the goal of ?recruiting them into the homosexual lifestyle.? ?That?s why they?re trying to get into our kindergarten books and trying to take over our public schools and homosexualize our public education so that they can recruit children into homosexuality and maintain their pool of available sex partners for their own progeny,? he said, ?which is our children that they are stealing and warping their minds.?

    More on that here.

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    China's new leaders can't rule by pedigree

    Xi Jinping, the new leader of the Communist Party, takes power along with others as descendants of Mao's revolutionary elite. But China needs rulers open to change, not those who cling to hereditary privilege.

    By the Monitor's Editorial Board / November 15, 2012

    From left, members of China's new Politburo Standing Committee: Zhang Gaoli, Liu Yunshan, Zhang Dejiang, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Yu Zhengsheng and Wang Qishan, in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Thursday.

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    The most striking fact about China?s new crop of rulers is how many are so-called princelings. Of the seven men selected for the Communist Party?s all-powerful Standing Committee this week, four are descendents of former senior party leaders.

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    This is startling for a Marxist regime that once denounced hereditary rule, or a belief that bloodlines help determine one?s destiny or that the right genes make a righteous ruler.

    China is not alone in caving to the notion that heredity can still play a big role in determining a country?s elite.

    Europe still has its monarchs, albeit now largely figureheads. Americans still vote for political dynasties (Bush, Clinton, Gore, Romney, Kennedy). India is dominated by the Gandhi family, Cuba by the Castros, Singapore by the Lees, North Korea by a third-generation Kim, and Syria by a second-generation Assad. The Arab monarchies, such as Saudi Arabia, may be the most successful in self-perpetuating their power, even when up against the Arab Spring.

    China?s ?red nobility? stands out, however, because of the country?s sheer size and the need for economic and political reform. These new Chinese leaders, who see themselves as the hereditary heirs to the 1949 communist revolution, may have little stake in change. They literally still live in a walled world. And many of their families control a large chunk of the economy.

    As communist ideology has declined in popularity, the party has fallen back on old traditions to maintain power, such as nationalism and the promise of quick wealth. With a new leadership under Xi Jinping (son of a former vice premier who was a prot?g? of Mao Zedong), the party has reached for legitimacy by claiming that the grandsons of the Mao generation deserve to be treated as quasi-royalty. Mr. Xi himself reportedly once described top officials without a strong background to the Mao generation as ?shopkeepers? sons.?

    World history, however, is moving in the opposite direction, toward a less artificial view of individual worth. Rulers must rise by the merit of their qualities ? qualities learned and not passed down simply by bloodlines of family, clan, or tribe. ?Power is never a good, unless he be good that has it,? said King Alfred the Great.

    In the 2011 book ?The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution,? famed scholar Francis Fukuyama states about ethnic nepotism:

    ?Since virtually all human societies organized themselves tribally at one point, many people are tempted to believe that this is somehow a natural state of affairs or biologically driven. It is not obvious, however, why you should want to cooperate with a cousin four times removed rather than a familiar nonrelative just because you share one sixty-fourth of your genes with your cousin.?

    China?s emerging form of hereditary privilege and nepotistic rule may provide the country some stability. People often prefer a known name to an unknown one. But it borders on personality cult and defies a global trend toward higher views of humanity, such as equality and rule of law.

    Perhaps social changes in China, driven by the Internet and a rising middle class, will push Beijing?s new elite rulers to see that history is not on the side of those who claim power by pedigree.

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    Congress, Obama face dynamite in "fiscal cliff": CEOs

    BOSTON (Reuters) - Corporate America is raising the volume of its plea that the U.S. government avert a year-end "fiscal cliff" that could send the nation back into recession, but chief executives aren't pushing the panic button just yet.

    With a heated election season in the rear-view mirror, executives are calling on the White House and congressional leaders to head off a self-imposed deadline that could bring $600 billion in spending cuts and higher taxes early in 2013 if they are unable to reach a deal on cutting the federal budget deficit.

    The Business Roundtable on Tuesday kicked off a print, radio and online ad campaign on which it plans to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars featuring the chiefs of Honeywell International Inc , Xerox Corp and United Parcel Service Inc calling on lawmakers to resolve the issue.

    In an opinion piece published on Tuesday evening on the Wall Street Journal's website, Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein urged the business community and the Obama administration to compromise and reconcile so as not to derail the fragile recovery.

    One of the more dramatic warnings of the consequences of allowing the U.S. economy to go over the fiscal cliff came from Honeywell CEO David Cote.

    "If the last debt ceiling discussion was playing with fire, this time they're playing with nitroglycerin," Cote said in an interview. "If they go off the cliff, I think it would spark a recession that's a lot bigger than economists think. Some think it would just be a small fire. I think it could turn into a conflagration."

    The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the U.S. economy would contract 0.5 percent in 2013 if the government fails to stop the budget cuts and tax increases - far below the 2 percent growth economists currently forecast.

    A failure in Washington to solve the crisis by the year's end could prompt major companies to curtail investment plans, said Duncan Niederauer, CEO of NYSE Euronext , operator of the New York Stock Exchange.

    "We simply won't be investing in the United States. We will be investing elsewhere where we have more certainty of the outcome," Niederauer said in an interview.

    About a dozen top U.S. CEOs, including General Electric Co's Jeff Immelt, Aetna Inc's Mark Bertolini, American Express Co's Ken Chenault and Dow Chemical Co's Andrew Liveris are scheduled to meet with President Barack Obama on Wednesday to discuss the issue.

    The four are members of "Fix the Debt," an ad-hoc lobbying organization that this week launched an advertising campaign that advocates long-term debt reduction.

    UNCERTAINTY FACTOR

    Bank of America Corp CEO Brian Moynihan said on Tuesday that worries about the cliff have companies holding off on spending.

    "That uncertainty continues to hold back the recovery," Moynihan said, speaking at an investor conference in New York.

    Sandy Cutler, CEO of manufacturer Eaton Corp , shared his concern.

    "Until we solve the fiscal issues (in the United States and Europe), you're not going to get back to normal GDP growth," Cutler told investors on Tuesday.

    CEOs are not alone in this worry. The CBO report warned that failure to reach a deal could push the U.S. unemployment rate up to 9.1 percent, the highest since July 1991. It is currently 7.9 percent.

    Obama and the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives have signaled a more conciliatory tone since last week's election, when Obama soundly defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney, whose party retained a majority in the House.

    Wilbur Ross, an investor known for taking stakes in distressed companies, is bracing for higher tax rates in 2013.

    "We, like many people, have been trying to utilize gains this year. It does seem that the probability is that rates will go up," Ross said in an interview with Reuters Insider. "We don't have a "for sale" sign on anything. But we are mindful that there is a benefit to concluding things this year rather than next.

    NO SIGNS OF PANIC

    Concerns about the cliff have not prompted customers to cancel orders, though they have added to an overall level of uneasiness that has companies wary of making large capital purchases or hiring significant numbers of new workers.

    "We haven't seen the panicking, like, 'I'm not going to order something because of the fiscal cliff,'" said Steve Shawley, chief financial officer of heating and cooling systems maker Ingersoll Rand Plc . "Customers are being very judicious with their orders."

    Likewise, JPMorgan Chase & Co CEO Jamie Dimon last month told investors he did not expect the negotiations to hurt lending in the fourth quarter.

    "The fiscal cliff isn't going to change us," Dimon said, referring to JPMorgan's commercial bank, which loans money to businesses. The bank's investment banking side could be more vulnerable if the debate makes investors jittery, he allowed.

    WEAPONS, MEDICINES IN THE CROSS-HAIRS

    The defense and healthcare sectors are the most vulnerable to the fiscal cliff, as they face the threat of sequestration -- automatic, across-the-board cuts to their funding.

    Makers of weapons systems note that they have long been preparing for declining sales as the United States winds down two long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The industry has already shed tens of thousands of jobs and closed facilities.

    Lockheed Martin Corp's new president and chief operating officer, Marillyn Hewson, told analysts on Monday her company had been preparing for tighter defense budgets for years, even before the sequestration deal.

    "We aren't going to see a major change," said Hewson. "We've been very proactive as a leadership team in taking actions in recent years to address our cost structure, to look at how we can make our product more affordable."

    Automatic cuts to the federal budget could reduce federal health spending by $21.5 billion in 2013, potentially affecting everything from Medicare to the Food and Drug Administration, according to an analysis by PwC's Health Research Institute.

    Vincent Forlenza, the CEO of Becton Dickinson & Co , said the labs he supplies have held off on buying new instruments because of the threat of spending cuts.

    "If we don't get to a deal we will have another year of paralysis and putting off research," Forlenza said. "The impact of uncertainty on the (National Institutes of Health) budget is causing our research customers to put off research."

    (The story corrects spelling of company name in penultimate paragraph to "Becton Dickinson" instead of "Beckton Dickinson")

    (Additional reporting by John McCrank, Nick Zieminski, Caroline Humer, Jed Horowitz, Sharon Begley and Daniel Wilchins in New York, Rick Rothacker in Charlotte, North Carolina, Nichola Groom in Los Angeles, Andrea Shalal-Esa in Washington, Debra Sherman in Chicago and Anna Driver in Houston; Editing by Patricia Kranz and Steve Orlofsky and Carol Bishopric)

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/congress-obama-face-dynamite-fiscal-cliff-ceos-203615855--sector.html

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    Loans and Finance: The Eurozone Tinderbox

    The growing backlash against the economic dogma of Eurozone austerity has found physical form today, as unions stage a series of demonstrations and "general strikes" across the European Union.

    By way of an example, Greece continues to suffer. The Hellenic Statistical Authority has released data that shows that the Greek economy shrank by 7.2% on an annual basis in the three months to the end of September.

    Driving economies and people into the ground for the sake of an economic doctrine imposed by unelected bureaucrats will backfire on those who pursue this misguided policy.

    Source: http://loanbuster.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-eurozone-tinderbox.html

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    Learn How To Improve Your Success In The Internet Marketing World

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    Marketing your business on the internet is especially difficult if you design your own products because there inevitably comes a point when you run out of ideas for new merchandise. However, there are ways to get those creative juices flowing.

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    An important tip regarding Internet marketing is to consider conducting either video or audio interviews with known experts in your market and putting them on your site. This is extremely important because not only will it add to your credibility, but it will also draw people to your product much like a paid sponsorship would.

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    Will Higher Taxes Affect Small Businesses? You Tell Us - NYTimes ...

    The Agenda

    How small-business issues are shaping politics and policy.

    President Obama may have won a decisive reelection victory, but it is John Boehner, the Republican speaker of the House, who is making the rounds and claiming a mandate. And everywhere he goes, he?s talking about what would happen to small businesses if the Bush-era tax cuts on the wealthiest Americans are allowed to expire. To ABC News?s Diane Sawyer, Mr. Boehner said, ?Raising taxes on small-business people is the wrong prescription given where our economy is.? He told USA Today, ?Raising taxes on small businesses will kill jobs in America. It is as simple as that.?

    In a statement to reporters the day after the election, Mr. Boehner made what some observers described as a concession: House Republicans would consider new revenue as part of a deal to avert the ?fiscal cliff.? But he then explained that the new revenue could not come from higher tax rates. ?In the New Testament, a parable is told of two men. One built his house on sand; the other built his house on rock,? he said. ?The foundation of our country?s economy ? the rock of our economy ? has always been small businesses in the private sector. I ran one of those small businesses, and I can tell you: raising small businesses? taxes means they don?t grow.?

    To support the claim, Mr. Boehner turned to the same controversial Ernst & Young study on which Mitt Romney relied in the first presidential debate in Denver.

    Of course, this view is no less controversial now than it was at the time of that debate. Since the debate, we?ve learned about a September report (pdf) from the nonpartisan, and respected, Congressional Research Service, which surveyed the historical record and found that ?the reduction in the top tax rates have had little association with saving, investment, or productivity growth? ? but ?appear to be associated with the increasing concentration of income at the top of the income distribution.? The Congressional Research Service withdrew the report after Republican senators complained.

    Then, last week, a report from the Congressional Budget Office seemed to suggest that raising the tax rates on the wealthiest Americans would have little effect on economic output in the fourth quarter of 2013.* Extending the top tax rates would cost the economy 200,000 jobs, according to the C.B.O., an estimate well below the 700,000 jobs that Ernst & Young predicted would be lost. In fact, the C.B.O. figures show that while raising taxes (on everybody) amounts to about two-thirds of the total deficit reduction in 2013, it has a much smaller effect on gross domestic product, the measurement for output. (The C.B.O. report relies in part on economic modeling, much like the Ernst & Young study, meaning that the C.B.O.?s assumptions about the relationship between taxes and economic output informed the results.)

    And Agenda readers who own small businesses have weighed in as well. Jed Horovitz in New Jersey wrote, ?Each year, I decide how much money to re-invest in my company and how much to take out. Because I pay taxes on my profit, I always look for productive ways to invest in my company first. Spending pretax money makes sense. If my taxes were lower, I would take more money out and just put it in the bank.?

    Carol Gillen, who described herself as ?the wife and bookkeeper of a small-business owner? in New York, said, ?Demand drives hiring, not the personal income tax of the owner.?

    But The Agenda would like to hear from more business owners. We want to take a close look at how you and your companies would be affected by increasing the top tax rates, including how it might affect hiring and investment plans. It would be an intensive profile ? we would want to talk through specifics on revenue, income, taxes and investments. (We have made the same request to the National Federation of Independent Business and the S Corporation Association of America, both of which strongly oppose any income tax increase.)

    It?s a lot to ask, we know, but it?s an important issue. If you own such a company and have employees ? making you a job-creator ? and you?re game, please drop us a line to let us know you?re interested.

    Source: http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/12/will-higher-taxes-affect-small-businesses-you-tell-us/

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    YouTube Android app lets users find videos on their phone, play 'em on Google TV with one click

    YouTube Android app lets users find videos on their phone, play 'em on Google TV with one click

    There are a lot more folks digging the YouTube Leanback experience these days, what with most many more sets packing Google TV than ever. Today, team YouTube has released an update to its Android app that makes it easier than ever to find videos on your phone and watch them on your GTV-equipped television. All that's required is for your TV and phone to be on the same WiFi network, and the app automatically pairs them. Then, simply tap the TV icon that appears, and presto, the video starts playing on your big screen -- no muss, no fuss. Naturally, the standard YouTube remote controls are still present, plus multiple devices can connect and add new videos to the playlist. Want to see the goods for yourself? The fresh code's available now for both Android and GTV, so let the updating begin.

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    Steve Ballmer: Surface Sales Are "Modest," But Wait for Surface Pro

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is an able champion for his brand, but even he couldn't muster up much enthusiasm over sales of his Surface RT tablet in a recent interview with a French newspaper. Unless something was seriously lost in translation, sales of Microsoft's slate have been "modest" so far—but just you wait until its big brother gets here. More »

    Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/YqXgj_L0cbw/steve-ballmer-surface-sales-are-modest-but-wait-for-surface-pro

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