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Assuming their new positions were Ngina Duckett '00, president; Andrew S. Chung '01, director; Griselle M. Soto '01, director; Greg Y. Tseng '00, director; Richard M. Powell '01, vice president for finance; Andrew Steinau '01, assistant vice president for finance; Natalie M Carnes '02, vice president for seminars; Joshua Glassman '00, vice president for activities; Pranav Anand '01, vice president for marketing; and Jared S. Wasserman '02, assistant vice president for marketing...
...That was a year ago. Today customers are flocking to Chung as word of his tasty food spreads. Friends who once scoffed at his restaurant plans want advice on how to set up their own catering joints. The definition of what's respectable in South Korea has changed fast since economic collapse punched a hole in the Korean Dream. When the country was vaulting to economic success, parents aspired to get their sons into white-collar jobs at giant chaebol, or conglomerates, like Samsung. A year of life under the yoke of a humiliating $58 billion bailout from the International...
After five years as a construction site manager at Samsung, Chung Hwan Oak was more used to giving orders than taking them. So making sales calls for his new catering business turned out to be particularly hard on his pride. After bowing deeply, Chung, 49, would pitch his hot-pot lunches -- steaming vegetables seasoned with shrimps and fiery pepper sauce -- then explain how he'd lost his job at the giant conglomerate. Often people just slammed the door in his face. Those who listened didn't offer him a chair. The frosty treatment stung, but Chung knew what was behind...
...contributions connected to Chung were returned, and Kerry's aides explained that the senator's office had simply arranged a tour of the SEC for Chung, calling it a routine perk offered to supporters...
...Kerry returned the money as soon as there was any question as to whether Chung was legitimate or not," Rosenblith said...