Word: chung
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...Jung set up a presidential commission to investigate suspicious deaths under Korea's authoritarian regimes. Like similar panels set up in post-apartheid South Africa and post-junta Argentina, the commission was supposed to set the record straight and heal the wounds of the past. From Park Chung Hee's coup in 1961 until the transition to democracy in the early 1990s, South Korea's authoritarian governments regularly violated human rights in the name of protecting South Korea from the threat of the communist North. Hundreds of students, church leaders and others who opposed military rule died in suspicious circumstances...
South Koreans can't stand their elected officials, but they love their soccer team. What happens when politics and football meet? Last Thursday Chung Mong-joon, head of the South Korean Football Association, said he'd run for president in the December elections, confirming speculation that has gathered force since Korea's remarkable World Cup run. Chung, also an independent legislator in the National Assembly, has deep wells of World Cup popularity to draw from; current polls already give him a 10% lead over opposition candidate Lee Hoi-chang. President Kim Dae-jung's ruling Millennium Democratic Party has made...
...Cruise. Now the high-stakes battles are more likely to be over the people nobody knows--until they get caught up in front-page news stories. "Old-world bookers say, 'Look at my Rolodex--I know Henry Kissinger,'" says Bruce Perlmutter, senior executive producer of CNN's new Connie Chung Tonight. "New-world bookers get that what it's about now is who isn't in your Rolodex. They know how to track people down." A recent buffet of tabloid stories--kidnappings, a mine rescue, twins joined at the head--has put these bookers to the test and ratcheted...
Although at first Chung, a middle-aged woman originally from Taiwan, refuses to say where the factories are located, she eventually reveals that there are several company factories located in both Shandong and Zhejiang provinces...
...Chung refuses to provide more specific information about the factory names or locations and also declines to comment on working conditions in the factories...