Word: hye
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...meeting to discuss measures to cope with any possible fallout from the massacre - inadvertently stoking fears that Koreans living and studying abroad could be in for a rough ride. "Koreans still remember the riots in L.A., so we are worried about some revenge against Koreans," says Kim Hye Jin, 29, a web designer in Seoul, referring to Korean-owned businesses that were looted during the 1992 violence. "We are really worried about the image of our country...
...woman president—made clear at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night what her top priority would be if elected to the nation’s highest office. “I have only one objective,” South Korean National Assembly member Park Geun-hye said. “I am in to save my country.” Park, who chaired South Korea’s conservative Grand National Party from 2004 to 2006, said that the international community must “brace for more difficult tasks that surely lie ahead?...
...says. But for Korea, it's a matter of history and justice. "To them, it's another show of how Japan is not owning up to its past." In Korea, bitter memories of Japan's colonial occupation live on, harbored by people at the highest levels of government. Lee Hye Hoon, an opposition lawmaker in South Korea's National Assembly, says it's difficult for Japan and Korea to get along because "they attacked us, raped us, took everything from us ... and they still don't apologize...
...recently forced to abandon its offices after the media revealed that the rent was partly being paid with illegal campaign donations. Its new headquarters: a dingy warehouse. Eager to halt its slide in the polls, the opposition Grand National Party last week elected a new chairperson: Park Geun Hye, popular daughter of assassinated dictator Park Chung Hee. It has also moved its workers to humble digs: a vacant lot, where they will work in tents and converted shipping containers. During the impeachment, Koreans saw that their politicians have passion and aggression aplenty. Now the pols want to show their humility...
...Neither of us know where the mines are. We are being very careful." KIM HYE-WON, South Korean army lieutenant colonel, on efforts by the North and South to clear a path through the heavily mined...