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...timing of the incident, given the delicate juncture of the outside world's diplomatic engagement with Pyongyang, could hardly have been worse. South Korean President Lee Myung Bak learned of Park's murder just 90 minutes before he was scheduled to give a speech setting out a new course for North-South relations - in effect abandoning the harder line he had come to office preaching. Lee gave the speech despite the furor that he and his aides knew would follow once news of the killing became public in the South later that afternoon. Lee's speech included no mention...
...various flavors of Asian fashion culture. What's very interesting about the rise of fashion in Asia is that if you study fashion history, Asian cultures are maybe a chapter, and maybe only a paragraph. And there's a reason for that. The sari, the cheongsam, the hong bak, the kimono-they remained unchanged for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. And then when we get to the West and in particular Europe and in particular Paris, in the 17th century, suddenly you have fashion. You have clothes that change, you have people competing for attention on the streets...
...intend to start anew.' LEE MYUNG BAK, President of South Korea, on replacing nine of 10 senior aides after dissent over his agreement to import beef from the U.S. triggered antigovernment demonstrations...
TAKING TO THE STREETS More than 100,000 people protested in the South Korean capital on June 10 amid an escalating backlash against President Lee Myung Bak's move to end a ban on imported American beef. Lee's April decision sparked the protests, which have grown in scope to include his broader policies toward Washington and prompted his Cabinet members to offer their resignations...
...wielded a lot of power - as was customary. Korea a couple of decades ago was ruled by a handful of men: the government by a dictator and his aides, and the economy by equally dictatorial tycoons through sprawling corporate empires. This was the world that forged Lee Myung Bak, and it was his commanding, can-do attitude that appealed to voters after five years under the liberal, often rudderless leadership of Roh Moo Hyun, Lee's predecessor as President...