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...Meet Choi Ju Hee, savior of the South Korean economy. Armed with two credit cards and an allowance from her parents, she spends at least $600 a month on clothes, drinking with friends and a serious cell-phone habit (her father once cut off her home phone for a month to teach her a lesson on the cost of things). Her most prized possession: a pair of Salvatore Ferragamo loafers. What she badly wants: a pair of Prada sneakers. On a recent shopping expedition, she eyes a white cotton DKNY skirt. Her mother steps in, telling...
...Choi, 20, may be making life difficult for her parents, who remember a time when Korea was as poor as Bangladesh. But she is one reason why Korea's economy, amid global recession, is currently outperforming nearly every other country's in the world. Churning out everything from ships to semiconductors, Korea emerged as an export powerhouse during the last decade?it was international trade that allowed the country to bounce back from a brush with disaster during the Asia crisis four years ago. In the current downturn, things are different. With demand from the U.S. skidding, Korea...
...laps to go while Yang Yang (A) proved to be all Yin and never threatened. Instead, the race was won by the only athletes so far to truly claim an event for Asia, Koreans Ko Gi-Hyun, who took gold and at 15 became the youngest ever winner, and Choi Eun-Kyung, who smashed the Olympic record by six seconds in the semis. "Olympic athletes used to be role models," seethes Yosuke Yamaguchi, a former physical education instructor in Tokyo. "Now they're part athletes, part comedians...
...close is money lost to the 24-hour cybercafes up in Los Angeles and Irvine, and security is expensive. On a typical night, 40% of their customers at 8 p.m. are underage. And besides, owners argue, most of the cafes have unblemished records. "Nobody's gambling here," says Steve Choi, 36, dapper-looking owner of the Net2Net caf?. "There's no pornography. They're not drunk. They play games, they learn how to use the computer and then they go home. It's better than hanging around...
...years have passed since the world watched rapt as a slightly built man carried his grocery bags out into the middle of Beijing's main thoroughfare to face down the convoy of tanks sent to crush the democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. Now people who make similarly "crazy" choi-ces are by and large dismissed as extremists, anachronisms or lunatics irrelevant to China's political development, or as quaint idealists tragically out of step with the progress of their nation. Ian Buruma's Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing (Random House; 367 pages) deftly refutes this increasingly...