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Mon, March 27, 2023 | 10:07

G20 well-organized but more English guides needed

G20 well-organized but more English guides needed

Some 20,000 media people gathered from all over the world for the G20 Seoul Summit, providing a ripe opportunity for the city to show its capacity to host events of such magnitude while exposing its cultural assets.

Lee Hyo-won | 2010-11-12 19:59

Coex offers taste of Korea to delegations

The G20 Seoul Summit is more than a meeting of politicians and financiers. The organizers of the global event are striving to use this as an opportunity to promote the best cultural aspects of Korea to the delegation and media crew from around the world.

Bae Ji-sook | 2010-11-12 19:59

VIPs prove fashion is a statement

VIPs prove fashion is a statement

We didn’t need Michelle Obama or Carla Bruni to light up the festive atmosphere. We didn’t miss Cuban-native Narciso Rodriguez or French house Dior’s outfits either.

Bae Ji-sook | 2010-11-12 19:53

France sets ambitious goals for 2011 summit

France, the next host of the G20 summit in 2011, is gearing up to tackle tasks that no other host nation has ever attempted to undertake in the framework of the previous G8 and G20 summits ― reform of the international monetary system and the United Nations.

Lee Tae-hoon | 2010-11-12 18:32

First ladies to taste royal court cuisine

While the G20 leaders won’t be able to show off their chopstick skills during the intensive business meals, their spouses will have a chance to do so when they taste Korean court cuisine in Seoul, Friday.

Lee Hyo-won | 2010-11-12 00:07

Rethinking global rebalancing

Rethinking global rebalancing

Persistent global imbalances are a manifestation of all that is wrong with an increasingly interdependent world economy. They are an outgrowth of the excesses that gave rise to the Great Crisis and Recession of 2008-09. They are hobbling a post-crisis healing. And they have sparked the early skirmishes of a “currency war,” which could push the world down the very slippery ...

Jong-eun2010-11-11 22:22

Further weakening of reserve currency

Further weakening of reserve currency

The previously existing world power structure is all but over. The world resulting from the Pax Americana of 1944 and expressed in the G7 group of countries now has to confront the fact that it no longer controls most of the world’s GDP and that by 2016 it will be in a minority position in terms of total GDP.

Jong-eun2010-11-11 21:37

Fairness, balance, and common good

Fairness, balance, and common good

Ahead of today’s G20 summit in South Korea, two issues stand out for those of us who take an interest in international development.

Jong-eun2010-11-11 21:34

Development agenda to enhance G20’s legitimacy

Development agenda to enhance G20’s legitimacy

It is historic that Korea, the first non-Western and non-G8 country, chairs the fifth G20 leaders meeting in Seoul this week. Once among the poorest economies, Korea now takes center stage at one of the world’s premier forums and can contribute to the inception of a post-crisis global architecture through the development agenda. The formal inclusion of a Korea initiative on d...

Jong-eun2010-11-11 21:31

G20 summit tests Lees global leadership

President Lee Myung-bak once said he feels a sense of “historic” responsibility to help the world find the most effective solutions to overcome the current economic challenges at the G20 Seoul Summit.

Kim Se-jeong | 2010-11-11 21:26

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