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...Korean drum dance and a Korean paper handcraft session. Approximately 40 people were in the audience for the mock wedding, including members of the Boston Korean Club and the Boston Senior Korean Club, two local organizations that hosted the Los Angeles group. “As an East Asian studies concentrator, you get a lot of attention for Japan and China, but Korea generally gets the shaft,” said graduate student Beverley N. Foulks, who is in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Others had more pragmatic reasons for showing up. “Raffle...
...worked well in Asia for H&M's main rival, Inditex's Zara, which opened its first store in Hong Kong in 2004. It carefully selects store locations in luxurious shopping centers, marketing itself as a rival to designers like Armani. Inditex's regional sales for its 59 Asian stores last year amounted to $1.1 billion, or 9% of the company's revenue, up from 7.5% in 2005. The Spanish company is often credited with inventing fast fashion, a business model that moves garments from the design table to stores quickly. Zara's clothing designers work closely with factories...
Hong Kong and China are only H&M's first stops in Asia. Three more stores are planned for Hong Kong this year, and two in Shanghai. As a sign of how China has come to dominate the Asian retail market, Japan has taken a backseat. H&M will open its first store there by 2008. Other possibilities, like Singapore, are in the works. "We're taking things slow to start out, but we're clearly not going into Asia for 10 stores," Persson explains. "The potential for the market is just too huge...
...platform when we ran this year,” says UC Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09. He described the proposal as a “quiet issue” that would nonetheless significantly improve students’ everyday lives. Sundquist began by contacting several Asian-American groups to ask for their support, and Asian-American Association (AAA) Co-President Ren “Jimmy” Zhao ’08 confirmed that his organization will support the UC proposal. Zhao was given the e-mail address “Zhao2...
Last Sunday, members of the South Asian Association (SAA) elected Pia P. Dandiya ’09 and Dhruv Maheshwari ’09 as co-presidents for the upcoming academic year. Dandiya and Maheshwari said yesterday that they plan to launch a number of new initiatives, in addition to continuing the efforts of outgoing co-presidents Mayuri N. Shah ’08 and Rohan Kekre ’08. Shah and Kekre have spent their tenure implementing a lecture series and starting a summer fellows program. According to Dandiya, one of SAA’s main goals next...