Word: hans
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...weapons of mass destruction. If so, the ploy worked?Washington withdrew the offer of talks soon after the clash. Meanwhile, the death of four South Korean sailors has made many South Koreans wonder whether Kim's strategy of engaging the North is worth it. Says Seoul businessman Kim Han Suk: "They have nothing to lose. They could do something like this again...
...young (read: under 70), handsome and polished?rare attributes in Korean politics. When Cho invited Chung to speak at her university last year, she was stunned to see the crowd of cheering, chanting students he attracted: "It was like he was a sports star or an entertainer." Han Sang Jin, a former actor who created the first Chung Mong Joon fan club, says he was impressed when he saw his hero at a football game: "He seems to be one of us, despite all his title and money. People can just walk up to him and start a conversation...
...those made during the 1950s as well. Young South Korean directors like edgy stories of violence and sex. Im is of a more mature school, preferring graceful period pieces, produced with Akira Kurosawa-style attention to costume and scenery and marked by a peculiarly Korean form of sadness called han. Shaped by countless foreign invasions and Korea's ensuing sense of rage and helplessness, han permeates Im's movies. The protagonist in Chihwaseon is a painter who realizes he can only create masterpieces when he is drunk. Even then, he is too emotionally deadened to enjoy the beauty of what...
...worries that han and other cornerstones of the modern Korean ethos are slipping away as the nation speeds into the Internet age and replaces wooden temples with concrete office blocks. Mindful of old traditions, he uses ancient Chinese characters in his movie titles instead of the more modern Korean phonetic alphabet. "My goal for making movies is to teach the world about Korea," says Im, sitting in his spartan office surrounded by local film awards and stacked cardboard boxes. "But I also want to teach my own countrymen about their own history...
...Lowell: Benton B. Bodamer, Georg A. Bongartz, Han-Chiao I. Chen, Julia C. Drisdell, Andrew G. Ei, Lindsay P. Jones, Laura P. Knoll, Kathy W. Lu, Shruti Ravikumar and Michael P. Tully...