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...accomplishments. She entered the corporate world in the U.S. as an unwitting embodiment of stereotypical Asian female behavior--"diminutive, submissive, that whole geisha thing you get tagged with," she says. (It's a typical problem for Asian women executives, although one that few employers recognize, says Jane Hyun, an executive coach and author of Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: "Here, we say the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Well, there's a Chinese proverb that says the loudest duck gets shot.") At the boot camp, Ho networked with other GE executives who urged her to be more aggressive. It recently helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Race, Gender & Work: Pathways to Power | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

...RESIGNING. HONG SEOK HYUN, 55, South Korean Ambassador to the U.S.; amid a scandal surrounding the country's 1997 presidential election; in Seoul. He announced his resignation after a local TV station claimed it had obtained part of a recorded conversation between Hong, then publisher of the newspaper JoongAng Ilbo, and Lee Hak Soo, a high-ranking Samsung executive, in which the two discussed the powerful conglomerate's possible channeling of illegal funds to presidential candidates. South Korean lawmakers have demanded an independent investigation into the alleged payoffs, which Lee reportedly said on the tape were authorized by Samsung chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 8/1/2005 | See Source »

President Aquino's charm lies in her honesty. Until she came along, I was disillusioned with politicians. She has projected a new image of the profession. We Koreans thirst for a leader like Aquino. Chin-Hyun Kim Soon-Chon City, South Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 20, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...broadcast his intention to turn Hyundai into a Top 5 automaker, few took him seriously. Hyundai, like many family-controlled Korean companies, was ultra-hierarchical and slow to change. Division chiefs ran their operations as personal fiefdoms. "When a problem occurred, each division would blame other divisions," says Lee Hyun Soon, a senior executive in research and development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hyundai Grows Up | 6/20/2005 | See Source »

...would be returning to the negotiating table. A day later, North Korea denied making that commitment. North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan told an ABC television-news crew in Pyongyang that the country was producing more nuclear bombs. Meanwhile, a meeting between South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun and U.S. President George W. Bush, despite declarations of unity, ended with the two allies unable to agree, as usual, whether to coax North Korean despot Kim Jong Il with aid and trade or hammer him with tougher economic sanctions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The North's Bitter Harvest | 6/13/2005 | See Source »

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