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[HOT LINKS] Chinese officials want to know – why can’t China make a soap opera as good as South Korea’s?

March 10, 2014

star[Washington Post]  There is no shortage of problems facing China these days: a terrorist attack that recently left 33 people dead and 143 injured, corruption in government, a worrisome slowdown in economic growth.

So when the country’s two highest governing bodies met in Beijing this week, what was the burning issue on the delegates’ lips? A South Korean soap opera that has taken the country by storm.

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