The Korea Foundation has newly posted March 2013 edition of Korea Focus web magazine (www.koreafocus.or.kr).

 
This issue includes 21 commentary articles, three 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 March edition (www.koreafocus.or.kr) are as follows;

▶ Commentaries

 
Politics

- Mission of the Nation’s First Female President
- If Xi Jinping and Park Geun-hye Team Up
- The First Step to Restoring South-North Relations
- Opposition’s Chance Five Years Hence
- Three Important Facts Koreans Alone Have Yet to Know
- 130 years of Korean-German Friendship

 
Economy

- Daunting Trade Issues for Park Geun-hye
- Small Giants Offer Hope for Korean Trade
- East Asian Common Market
- Real Estate Policy Tasks for the Park Administration
- Open Source Technologies for the World of Big Data

 
Society

- Musical Film ‘Les Miserables’ and Grand National Unity
- Social Contract for Youth Employment
- Women’s Career Interruptions and Executive Appointments
- Arab’s Thirst for Hallyu and Public Diplomacy
- A Gloomy Era of Vanishing Bookstores 

 
Culture

- Cultural Welfare in Dire Need
- Park Geun-hye’s Fashion Style
- The Value of Arirang
- A Movie that We Cannot See at Theaters
- Korean Perfectionism
 
 
▶ Essays

- Social, Generational and Regional Cleavages in Transitoning North Korea
- Korean Household Income: Analysis and Implications
- LDCs and Korea in Export Markets: The Pursuers and the Pursued

 
▶ Other Stories

   
Features

- Parents Think Twice about Spending on Children’s Education
- A Village with Alleys

 
Book Reviews

- Poet Reminisces on How Life Unfolded with Modern History
- The Sorrowful History of Abandoned and Hungry Kareiskis

 
Interview

- Park Hyo-nam: “I put all my effort even into a simple soup.”