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When Korean university student Chang Je Hyung did a brief stint at Samsung's office in Berlin last year, it made him angry. He had to help prepare a holiday trip to Germany for chairman Lee Kun Hee and his family. According to Chang, dozens of Samsung employees spent two months sweating over details of the private visit, even going to fancy restaurants to try out food the chairman might eat. Instead of tipping off the mainstream media, Chang sent a first-person account to online newspaper OhmyNews earlier this year. It created a sensation...
...Chang-San Chen doesn’t want to be a “troublemaker,” even if it means ending a beloved tradition. After a rough round of bad luck last spring, Chen, owner of Louie’s Superette, was struck with another low blow when his lawyer told him last spring he could no longer give bottles of champagne to his favorite seniors...
...China knows this. In [inviting Lien to China], it creates internal problems." Professor Lee Si-kuen, a professor of political science at National Taiwan University (and a KMT member), calls Lien's trip "the wrong thing at the wrong time," adding "it will aggravate the divisions in Taiwan society." Chang Hui-ching, 34, a historian at Taiwan's National Palace Museum, says the political schism is already too wide. A former pro-independence activist, Chang no longer votes or discusses politics because, she says, "in Taiwan there is no middle ground. Everyone is talking but no one is listening. People...
...meeting “brought into the dialogue many voices I had never heard before,” said Chang Liu ’06, a former Forums/Political co-chair of the Chinese Students Association. “I had never heard whites talk about race relations...
...Chang also cites her love for Iowa, the state that financed her first efforts in writing...