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Seoul Power: South Korea, long in the shadow of other Asian ‘tiger economies,’ is suddenly hip and enormously prosperous – so much so that it may have outgrown its thankless dream of reuniting with the North

Photos: (Top) Wonder Boyz bank member ‘K’ practices dance moves at a Gangnam studio. Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor 

A young woman chats on a cellphone at a cafe in the Gangnam district, which sits on the south bank of the Han River, and is the epicenter of K-Pop. Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor

Graphics: Rich Clabaugh/The Christian Science Monitor

With gun violence down, is America arming against an imagined threat?

A Pew study finds that Americans think gun violence has escalated when in reality it’s way down from two decades ago. The violence has dropped, meanwhile, even as gun ownership has increased.

Common Core: Education reform’s next big thing 

Common Core standards ramp up

Common Core promises new tests. Will they be better than the old ones?

Is top ranked Massachusetts messing with education success?

Graphics: Amand Paulson/The Christian Science Monitor

To Invest, or not to Invest? As Wall Street posts a new record, experts decode its message about the state of the economy – and whether it’s too late to invest.

Dow at 15,000: What the stock market is telling us

Do young people believe in stocks?

Why Charles Larsen will be staying out of the market

One couples’s rationale for getting into the market

Illustration by Dan Vasconcellos/The Christian Science Monitor

The Big Three automakers, reinvented, eye consumers worldwide

GM, Ford, and Chrysler have reinvented themselves in the years since the Great Recession almost spelled the demise of two of the Big Three automakers. Their ‘transformative’ evolution puts them in a position to compete globally.

Graphic: Julie Fallon/The Christian Science Monitor

Photo: Clockwise from top: Chevrolet Silverado, Dodge Dart dashboard, Ford Mustang, Jeep Wrangler. (AP and PRNewsFoto)

The eurozone crisis explained in 5 simple graphs

Governments have collapsed and bailouts have run into the hundreds of billions of euros, and still the eurozone crisis lingers. How did we get here?

Graphics by CS Monitor staff

Facing Terror: Boston bombing reveals a new American maturity toward insecurity

Graphics by Rich Clabaugh/The Christian Science Monitor

Countdown to Tax Day: As April 15 looms, we dig a little deeper into taxes, where they come from, where they go, and what reforms to the tax code could look like.

Tax reform: Why a kinder, simpler tax code eludes Congress so far

Tax day 2013: Saving energy can save you money on taxes

What does the federal government do with your money? Take our taxes quiz.

Graphics by Rich Clabaugh/The Christian Science Monitor