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...three suicide notes Chung Mong Hun, 54, left on his desk beside his watch and glasses before leaping from the window of his 12th-floor office last week provided few clues to his motives. (Chung apologized to his family in a few scribbled lines, gave encouragement to a colleague and, in a note to his employees, wrote: "A foolish man does a foolish thing.") But few men in South Korea could have had more burdens to bear. Chung, one of eight sons of the late Chung Ju Yung, pioneering chaebolist and founder of the Hyundai group, had been demoted...
...Those investments turned out to be as financially disastrous as they were politically contentious. Chung, a shy man whose passion was to bring the two Koreas together through commerce, took these setbacks personally. "He wanted to be seen as contributing to Korean reconciliation," says a South Korean lawmaker. "Instead he was criticized by the public." In the week before his death, prosecutors grilled Chung three times?in sessions lasting up to 12 hours?over another issue altogether: a $13 million slush fund paid for by the Hyundai group that prosecutors allege was set up by a top aide to former...
Also stolen from the room were Patel’s wallet and a broken cell phone belonging to Eric Ngeo. In the neighboring suite, a $10,000 Bedat watch owned by Eugene Chung was also missing...
...CHARGED. PARK JIE WON and LIM DONG WON, former South Korean government officials, and CHUNG MONG HUN, chairman of Hyundai Asan, with violations in connection with the 2000 summit between the two Koreas; in Seoul. Park (pictured), a top aide to Kim Dae Jung, then South Korea's President, was charged with having abused his authority. Chung and Lim, another Kim aide, were charged with having violated foreign-currency regulations. The Hyundai Group sent $500 million to North Korea months before the historic summit, the first since the Korean War ended in 1953. An investigation found that $100 million...
...Matriculated, my favorite, is written and directed by Peter Chung, creator of the ground-breaking if perplexing MTV anim? Aeon Flux. Chung grasps the creepy biomechanics at the heart of the Matrix world. His machines and humans alike are faintly insectoid and fatally interdependent on each other. Remember how Morpheus talks about going "down the rabbit hole"? Well, Matriculated pulls you there and then some. Chung takes the concept of humans living in a computer-generated world and turns it on its head, plugging a machine into a kaleidoscopic human dreamworld. The result is electric?Kool-Aid brain candy, with...