Korea takes centre stage

Korea chairs the G20 club of industrialised nations this year and is keen to set a new world agenda, while worries about debt mount at home.

While South Korea's speed skaters were winning a record haul of medals at the Vancouver Winter Olympics in late February, its civil servants were busy preparing for a meeting that would inaugurate the country's ascendancy in another way. Less dramatic, perhaps; just as significant, certainly.

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