- The Chosun Ilbo suggests that gender discrimination harms Korea's competitiveness.
- In the US, the growth of unpaid internships in this bad economy may be an illegal way to get free labor. Of course, in South Korea this has been going on for years.
- With Tax Day (April 15, also Kim Ilsung's birthday) just around the corner, the Washington Post tackles five myths about paying taxes.
- Hyundai tips toward foreign production as the number of cars made at overseas plants surpassed the number made at domestic factories.
- Blaine Harden of the Washington Post says that North Korea's overtures to China may signal an opening of the economy.
- Evan Ramstad of the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports on how the regime in Pyongyang really does seem to be weakening, which has sparked anew talks of its impending collapse.
- An English-language version of Korean law is now available online for free.
- The Chosun Ilbo gives some reasons why it might be hard to find the missing sailors from the Chonan, especially if they went overboard in the somewhat swift waters.
- The Beeb reports on the trial of the couple who left their baby to die while they hung out in a PC-bang.
- Bogus lines South Koreans tell each other on blind dates.
- How April Fools Day played out on the Internet.
- One year later, the people who survived the massacre at the American Civic Center, a facility that assisted immigrants, in Binghampton, New York, remember the tragedy in which thirteen innocent lives were lost.
- Dan Quayle implores the Tea Party Movement not to "go Perot" and splinter the GOP.
- The "Christian militia" group (what makes them a Christian militia group exactly?) that was arrested in Michigan were apparently avid Ron Paul fans.
- The science behind them knowing you know that they know.
- The WaPo explains DVD regions — but misses the opportunity to describe them as evil. Evil!
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