South Korea goes conservative
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Scandal-tainted Lee Myung-bak set to become South Korea's next president, exit poll shows
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South Korea on Saturday welcomed an agreement struck with Washington to hand Seoul wartime operational control over its own forces for the first time in more than 50 years.
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South Koreans go to the polls to elect a new president in a political landscape turned on its head since Kim Dae-jung took power 10 years ago
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South Korea said on Friday it did not  expect a shock declaration that government scientists enriched  uranium four years ago to upset international efforts to end  North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
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The Congress which convenes next year will reflect the dominant tone of American politics: culturally conservative Republicanism. Republican Senate candidates swept the south, hastening the death of the region&#39;s Democratic tradition.
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It's election time in super-wired South  Korea and the young democracy's once giant, and raucous,  rallies have gone quiet.
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South Koreans on Wednesday elected as president Lee Myung-bak, a right-wing former CEO vowing to improve the economy and stand up to North Korea, TV exit polls showed.
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For the first time in a decade, South  Korea has stopped labeling North Korea its "main enemy" but its  latest Defense White Paper Friday said it suspects the  reclusive state of possessing nuclear weapons.
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South Korea's economy will probably expand by slightly less than the previously projected 5 percent in 2008 due to increased risks from the slowing global economy and firmer oil prices, Finance Minister Kwon O-kyu said.
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South Korea&#39;s Constitutional Court blocked President Roh Moo Hyun&#39;s $40 billion plan to relocate the capital about 140 kilometers (87 miles) south of Seoul.
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December 18, 2004 ã¡ KAGOSHIMA, Japan â At a press conference here after a summit meeting with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan, President Roh Moo-hyun said that South Korea would not oppose Tokyo taking punitive economic measures against
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South Korea's president-elect Lee Myung-bak said on Thursday his conservative government will press North Korea to drop its nuclear arms program but was mindful of the need to be patient with the communist state.
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Sweden's new conservative Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, who won election three weeks ago ousting the Social Democrats from 12 years of power, said his centre-right government would implement a slew of reforms but at a cautious pace.
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SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said Monday his government will seek to increase investment and make selective tax cuts in an effort to maintain a 5 percent annual economic growth rate.
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ANYANG, South Korea  - Nineteen South Korean Christian volunteers held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan for six weeks returned home to an uncomfortable welcome on Sunday, thanking their government for saving them from death.
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TOKYO -- Japan's likely next premier, outspoken conservative Shinzo Abe, pressed for summits with China and South Korea yesterday after being tapped to head the country's ruling party in a vote heralding a swing to the right.
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South Koreans voted on Wednesday in a presidential election expected to be won by a conservative former CEO who has vowed to help business and get tough on North Korea, but whose leadership may be undermined by a fraud probe.