[%%IMAGE1%%]<p>  From left to right, the Korean peninsula’s three most prominent dynastic successions: former President Park Chung-hee and daughter President Park Geun-hye, late and current North Korean leaders Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-un and Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee and his son, Samsung Electronics vice-chairman Lee Jae-yong. Beneath them walks a poor father and son. The father says, “Let’s not have our succession process keep going”. Nowadays in South Korea working families are finding it more difficult to achieve social mobility and break out of poverty. (by Jang Bong-koon)</p>

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Korean successions of power and poverty

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The extreme confrontation unfolding now between South and North is one where even a small mistake could lead to disaster

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New textbooks approved for use in middle schools make preposterous claims about Japan’s colonial rule over Korea

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[Column] The president’s questionable capacity for dialogue

The way Korea’s chaebol families blatantly use affiliate spinoffs to secure inherited control over conglomerates is rarely seen in other advanced economies

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