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...DIED. AHN SANG-YOUNG, 65, mayor of Pusan, South Korea's second-largest city, of apparent suicide, while being held in jail as he awaited the verdict in a corruption trial; in Pusan. Ahn, who was re-elected as mayor in 2002, was jailed in October on charges of taking $85,500 in bribes from a construction company and was under investigation for allegedly accepting $256,400 from a bus company...
...South Korea's Ministry of Defense. (Reports of American POW sightings have never been confirmed.) The two countries swapped prisoners when hostilities ended, but North Korea held onto at least 19,000 soldiers, South Korea's Ministry of Defense estimates, and has stubbornly denied their existence ever since. Says Ahn Sang Won, a spokesman for the Korean Veterans Association: "We just don't understand why South Korea can't be tougher on the North." According to the government, Lee was only the 35th POW to escape North Korea alive...
...your nights a little less frantic, make for Gangnam, Seoul's own Beverly Hills, complete with a 24-hour beauty salon, big-brand shopping and wine bars, of which Chez Joey, tel: (82-2) 555 8926, is one of the smartest. Set up by long-haired owner and sommelier Ahn Joon-buem on his return from Paris, it's an oasis for live music, especially cool jazz. Even the barmen will treat you to impromptu licks on the guitar: the waiting staff are professional musicians earning an extra buck...
...stroke and is incommunicado.) At least 11 other aides, friends and associates of Roh are under scrutiny. Among them are Lee Kwang Jae, a former Blue House secretary for information and policy planning, who resigned on Oct. 18 after being accused by opposition party members of accepting bribes, and Ahn Hee Jung, a presidential aide who is currently on trial for allegedly funneling $166,000 from a faltering commercial bank into a private political research institute set up by Roh. Meanwhile, investigators from the Supreme Public Prosecutors' Office recently raided offices at Samsung Electro-Mechanics, part of the Samsung Group...
...hand to law-enforcement officials. At a town-hall-style meeting in March, Roh told a gathering of prosecutors that "there will be no phone calls" from the Blue House squashing investigations. And the public is squarely behind a cleanup drive. The lead prosecutor for the campaign-financing investigation, Ahn Dae Hee?known to be fearless in pursuing politically sensitive cases?even has an Internet fan club. Under the circumstances, the Blue House "can't make the phone call even if they want to," says Kim Young Ho, an expert on Korean politics at Inha University in Inchon...