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South Korea's Sensational Journalism
Jun 19 2008, Tristan

I should probably be increasingly alarmed by the continued lack of professional journalistic standards that the Korean media so often displays. However, after coming across the latest article with a sensational headline, in The Korea Times, I could...

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