The Korea Foundation has newly posted November 2012 edition of Korea Focus web magazine.

 
This issue includes 18 commentary articles, four essays and several articles related to the Book Review, Interview, and Feature sections.

The articles are selected from leading Korean newspapers, magazines, journals and academic papers from prestigious forums.

The sections and titles of the articles in the edition(www.koreafocus.or.kr) are as follows.

▶ Commentaries

 
Politics

- Major Trends for Predicting the Presidential Election
- Ahn Cheol-soo’s Bid for Presidency: A Litmus Test for New Politics
- ‘Light and Shadow’ of Park Chung-hee′s Rule
- New Missile Policy Alone Isn′t Enough
- lanced Diplomacy amid Mounting Conflict between China and Japan

 
 Economy

- Inter-Korean Economic Ties to Boost Job Creation
- Tasks of Economic Democratization
- Risks from Home-backed Loans
- Time to Develop Marine Finance

 
 Society

- Economic Democratization in ‘Gangnam Style’
- Presidential Election and ‘Civil Conflict on History’
- Small Attempts to Lower the Rising Suicide Rate
- Echo Boomers are Happier than Baby Boomers

 
Culture
- Maverick Director Kim Ki-duk Grabs Golden Lion in Venice
- No More ‘Shoddy’ Biennales
- ‘History Criticism’ Marks 100th Edition with Rational Voices of Young Scholars
- ‘Sharing’ Experiment
- An Island Story
 
 
▶ Essays

- The 18th Presidential Election and Major Issues of Economic Democratization
- Openness in North Korean Economy, Society and Politics
- Receptiveness to Multiculturalism and Gender
- The Psy Epidemic

 
▶ Other Stories

   
Features

- Canadian Couple Promotes K-Pop Culture in Cyberspace
- Korean Serves as Project Architect for World’s First Private Spaceport

 
Book Reviews

- Five Hundred Years of Joseon Dynasty Beholden in Changdeok Palace
- World’s Best Species for Christmas Trees Grows on Mt. Halla

 
Interview

- Hwang Ji-hae: “I get inspirations from the gardens I saw while growing up.”