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...Hyun, former President of South Korea, spent his life thumbing his nose at the country's political establishment. As a human-rights lawyer in the 1980s, he defended student protesters who fought the then dictatorial regime. In 2002, Roh--who never attended college--stunned South Korea's élite with his upset presidential-election victory. Less than seven years later, on May 23, he committed suicide at age 62 by jumping off a cliff while hiking near his home...
...Students on the committee included two recent members of the UC: former UC Vice-President Randall S. Sarafa ’09 and Prithvi R. Shankar ’09, and three with no UC experience: Gee Hyun “Sussan” Lee ’09, Heidi E. Kim ’09, and Jamison A. Hill ’10, who is also The Crimson’s magazine chair...
...Princeton, by contrast, is likely to hire at least five new junior professors for next year, according to Oleg Itskhoki, a Ph.D. student in Economics. That number has not been slashed at all in response to financial conditions, according to Hyun Song Shin, the assistant chair of Princeton’s economics department...
...That fear is palpable on the streets of Seoul. South Koreans have begun to scale back. Song Jae Hyun, a vegetable seller at central Seoul's Nandaemun market, sells his broccoli and bell peppers for only about 50 cents apiece, much cheaper than in many of the grocery stores, but his stall still sees few customers. "People are spending less money for sure," he says, shaking his head. "One year ago, there would be double the amount of people here. These are terrible times." At a nearby restaurant, only four of the 16 tables are occupied at dinner time. "Everyone...
...dictator and his aides, and the economy by equally dictatorial tycoons through sprawling corporate empires. This was the world that forged Lee Myung Bak, and it was his commanding, can-do attitude that appealed to voters after five years under the liberal, often rudderless leadership of Roh Moo Hyun, Lee's predecessor as President...