Word: dong
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...message," it reads. You click it open, a video whirs and there he is, in all his boyish glory: "Hi, I'm Leonardo Di Caprio and I've just made the movie Gangs of New York. I really hope you'll come and see me." If film promoter Kim Dong Joo can pull it off, hordes of Korean fans will receive this online missive just before the movie's Christmas-season release in Seoul. For girls who can't get enough of the Titanic heartthrob it's a "fantastic illusion," says Kim, who began his career at 20th Century...
...tried the e-mail stunt earlier this year with Friends, a star-studded buddy flick set in the port city of Pusan in the 1970s. Using a name list culled from an online site, his company, Korea Pictures, fired off a video pitch featuring the film's star Jang Dong Gun (sort of a South Korean Tom Cruise) to 1 million hard-core moviegoers. The movie this month became Korea's biggest blockbuster ever. It's hard to know exactly how much the Internet helped, but if an online pitch is going to work anywhere, it's in Korea...
...according to a clandestine survey carried out by Good Friends. The lucky ones live with relatives or find their way to an underground missionary shelter. The others are often at the mercy of unscrupulous farmers and factory owners who give them jobs but pay a pittance. Han Dong Jun and his older brother Dong Shik raise herbs and medicinal plants on a patch of cleared forest land for a Chinese farmer in a remote stretch of mountainside frontier. They say he won't pay them until the the crop is ready or commit to how much he'll give them...
...cast rehearses in the West Lobby of the Loeb Drama Center. Cast members not rehearsing at the moment help set up the stage. The cast itself has several guiding lights: Heller, music director Michael D. McNabb ’02, assistant music director Peter J. Dong ’02 and vocal director Steven B. Anderson ’01. In these last few weeks, they have been rehearsing six hours a day—three hours to work on individual pieces and three hours to run through the entire show. Lacking the resources of its Broadway predecessor, the student...
...private sector. South Korea has a unique opportunity to pump up North Korea's economy. Despite years of animosity, it is probably in the South's interest to facilitate the North's economic growth. "If North Korea collapses and forces premature unification, both sides would be completely ruined," says Dong Yong Seung, an economist who concentrates on North Korean issues for Samsung's Economic Research Institute. "Seoul can't support both economies...