Word: chul
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That's not even half the revenue stream of giant Sony, but Samsung Electronics is growing fast. It is the best performer in the family-controlled conglomerate that spawned it, the Samsung Group. Some analysts complain that the family of founder Lee Byung Chul, who died in 1987, still treats Samsung Electronics as a personal fief and that murky financial reporting makes it hard to discern the company's true profits. But neither worry has stopped investors from pouring money into the stock, which is up 65% over the past 12 months. Korea's consumers are spending more than ever...
...That's not even half the revenue stream of giant Sony, but Samsung Electronics is growing fast. It is the best performer in the family-controlled conglomerate that spawned it, the Samsung Group. Some analysts complain that the family of founder Lee Byung Chul, who died in 1987, still treats Samsung Electronics as a personal fief and that murky financial reporting makes it hard to discern the company's true profits. But neither worry has stopped investors from pouring money into the stock, which is up 65% over the past 12 months. Korea's consumers are spending more than ever...
...Nobody does taboo quite like Korean filmmakers. Kim Ki Duk's The Isle took sexual fetishism to new extremes: fishhooks became S&M tools. Park Chul Soo's feminist 301, 302 developed a friendship between a female anorexic and her overweight neighbor?only for the larger woman to eat the anorexic. Dogs, directed by first-time helmer Bong Joon Ho, takes on a lesser taboo in a manner reminiscent of another of this year's inspired works, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie from Montmartre. Both Bong and Jeunet have an eye for eccentric detail, produce a bagful of tricks...
...apply for refugee status. There are no United Nations camps, no international aid workers, no help except for the missionaries and small humanitarian aid groups running clandestine operations. It's illegal to try to count the refugees. Locals who help them face fines and jail terms. Says Kim Sang Chul, secretary general of the Seoul-based Commission to Help North Korean Refugees: "There is no comparable situation anywhere else in the world...
...North Korea is focusing on software. "There is money in IT," says Cho Myung Chul, a researcher at the Institute for International Economic Policy who defected from the North in 1994. KCC, established in 1990 by the late Great Leader Kim Il Sung, is the primary source. It has about 800 employees who appear to have an average age of 26, according to people who have visited the firm...