- In commentary carried by Bloomberg, Albert Hunt says that the Obama administration must "take on" its traditional labor allies in order to get free-trade agreements passed.
- The Wall Street Journal talks about Samsung's prominent role in the iPad's manufacture. They carried a similar story a day earlier.
- Japan's Mainichi Shimbun says that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il cursed Hwang Jang-yop when he defected to South Korea in 1997, calling him a "traitor" who was "worse than a dog." He was also described as "an outdated intellectual educated during the Japanese colonial days." Ouch. That last one had to hurt.
- The Justice Ministry is going through with setting up a fingerprinting system for foreign visitors, even though the bill before the National Assembly is still pending.
- A Seoul court has granted a divorce to a man whose wife has been in a vegetative coma for seven years following childbirth. They also gave his custody of their child.
- South Korea reveals the handsome financial incentives its players will receive if they make it to the second round of the World Cup.
- South Korean will introduce a mandatory tire rating system in 2012. It's reports like this that sound so KCNA like.
- The Christian Science Monitor reports that African nations are looking to build nuclear power plants fueled by the uranium they themselves supply, and they may be looking to South Korea and Japan to build those "Homer Simpson-style cooling towers."
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