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...Most North Koreans are too hungry, too terrorized and too thoroughly distanced from reality by constant government propaganda to revolt. "Inside North Korea, the majority of people still believe in their system," said Tak Eun Hyuk, a defector from a powerful North Korean family. More news from the outside world is leaking into the country across the northern border with China, and some North Koreans are starting to realize they have been duped. But when citizens waver in their loyalty, Kim has a repressive machine to equal Saddam's. An estimated 200,000 North Koreans are locked away in remote...
...Korea's megahit romantic comedy My Sassy Girl. But the copious selection nonetheless offered a fair overview of the country's artier auteurs?from Lee Chang Dong's long-fuse, then combustive Oasis (it won the Best Director prize at this month's Venice Film Festival) to Jeong Jae Eun's Take Care of My Cat, which, while it does not live up to its beguiling title, paints a quirky fresco of twentysomethings on an identity trip in Inchon...
...Mather: Eun Y. Choi, William J. Greenleaf, Katie M. Heikkinen, Alexander P. Nyren, Dana M. Scardigli and Jared R. Small...
...director Zhang Ming's Weekend Plot was typical. Five friends from Beijing hang out in swimsuits on the Yangtze for about 45 minutes doing nothing. And then for the second half of the film, they do the same. Not a syllable of wit, a whisper of titillation. Jeong Jae Eun's Take Care of My Cat was similarly somnambulant in its treatment of the impending womanhood of five teenaged Koreans. Actress Bae Doo Na, who so lit up last year's Barking Dogs Never Bite, wastes her talent in this cinematic Sargasso Sea that sloshes but never gets roiling...
...Koreans also used to pay for everything in cash. But with credit cards readily available and tax breaks for using them, shoppers are pulling out the plastic. Says Seo Eun Hee, an office assistant at Seoul National University: "It's easy and fun. I spend more than I used to?before I couldn't go into a department store and buy whatever I liked." Last year, $235 billion worth of merchandise was purchased on credit, up from less than $50 billion in 1998. Koreans are stretching their purchasing power in other ways. The government used to shoo banks away from...