- Kia has rolled out its new models and the BBC is somewhat impressed. Korean automakers are doing well and "seem to get design."
- CNN uses Kim Yuna's heavily viewed performance as a backdrop for a discussion of mobile TV.
- The KRW is rising in response to Greece getting its fiscal act together.
- American doctors from Stanford University have helped North Korea open a tuberculosis lab.
- The White House is wary of growing military ties between Burma and North Korea.
- China's People's Daily blames South Korean hostility for obstructing the future of the Kaesong Industrial Park.
- The Financial Times warns that "donor fatigue" threatens aid to North Korea.
- North Korea is still forging $100 supernotes.
- North Korea has designated eight cities as special economic zones.
- Get your genome mapped for 1 million won. And remember, in Korean it's pronounced "gay 놈."
- The Korea Times has a roundup of international headlines from 1919 about Korea's independence declaration.
- FedEx is talking up its role in busting an international drug ring.
- Some Yonsei students are not happy about the university's all-English Underwood International College's move to the new Songdo campus.
- Meanwhile, South Korean dropouts from American schools are headed home.
- As the number of foreigners rises, so does the number of crimes committed (or at least the number caught) by foreigners.
- The Joongang Daily says the anti-abortion movement is having a huge impact. Frankly, I don't mind them trying to discourage people from having an abortion and instead raising their kid (or giving it up for adoption), but I don't like the idea of making abortion inaccessible.
- The color blue is big this year.
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