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...South Korean director Kim Ki-duk often deals in beautiful surfaces and tarnished souls. His 3-Iron is about a housebreaker (Jae Hee) who slips into people's flats when they are away on vacation. Instead of burglarizing the place, he does ironing and fixes small appliances. (Can we hire him as our house-sitter?) On one of his forays he meets a lovely woman (Lee Seung-yun), the abused wife of a golf-mad businessman. A fable of seduction and soul-mating, violence and revenge, plays out in this nearly wordless film that offers a modern gloss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Movie Addict's Dream | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

...stunningly beautiful dancer who caught the eye of North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il and became his favorite companion. But as with much of the internal workings of the world's most secretive regime, little else is known about Ko Young Hee?not even whether she and Kim were ever married. Now, South Korean authorities are scrambling to decipher rumors that Ko has died?either of breast cancer following treatment in Paris or by succumbing to injuries sustained in a car accident last year. Seoul has learned that she was seriously ill, according to a source close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumors of a Death | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

...Korea. And last week as many as 200 protesters in Seoul?some in period costumes?scuffled with police during demonstrations outside the Chinese embassy. "They think China is trying to eradicate the Korean identity," says Park Sang-seek, head of the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies at Kyung Hee University north of Seoul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rewriting History | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

...plastic models of computer monitors and microwaves to move to new offices. With the number of designers up 15% in the past year, to 390, the center has added an entire new floor. "As we emphasize our brand, design becomes more critical," says the center's president, Lee Hee Gook. "We're making ourselves more competitive." Can Kim build LG into a global titan? Hurdles abound. LG still sometimes cuts prices to drive sales, softening both profit margins and its brand image. For example, LG sees 5% profit margins on its mobile phones; Samsung earns in excess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Religion | 7/25/2004 | See Source »

...decorative and edifying, they tend to appear in public buildings, hotels and touring art shows. All the women are pretty, all the men handsome, everyone smiles as they harvest crops and build dams. In one of these rousing paintings, the "First Heroine of the Republic, Cho Ok Hee" stands bound and barefoot on a snowy mountaintop, awaiting execution by Japanese troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heaven on Earth | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

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