Word: jangly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...could be siphoned off to bolster the fortunes of, say, Samsung Life Insurance, one of 24 other companies under the Samsung umbrella. That might not be illegal, but it certainly would not please investors in the electronics unit. "In terms of business, this is a top-notch company," says Jang Ha Sung, Korea's leading advocate for transparency. "But in terms of corporate governance, it is still in the 19th century...
...seen in Korea for half a century. Most of them had disappeared during Japan's occupation of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945. That morning, with dawn breaking and the skies clearing, workers reverentially pried open the first box. Before cranes pulled out the initial statue, curator Brian Jang and the museum's director spread out a straw mat and bowed low to the ground twice. Jang was choked with emotion. "It was like welcoming back ancestors who had been taken away to Japan by force," says Jang. "We had finally brought them back...
...benches. To Koreans, the torch-shaped pillars are sacred: they once were placed in front of royal tombs to symbolize the King's power. Ten kilometers away, granite sculptures of Korean scholars line a road that leads to the entrance of a tofu restaurant. Two years ago when curator Jang visited, he found the eatery had planted Japanese flags in front of each sculpture. He was incensed. "The truth is, I wanted to kill them," he says. "Stealing in the first place is bad, but when you take something and misuse it, it's outrageous." (The restaurant no longer displays...
...that's a paper considered friendly to the U.S.-led coalition. Pakistan's Urdu-language papers, Jang and Nawa-i-Waqt, have largely adopted a blame-the-victim approach to Sept. 11. "They regularly point out why some people are angry at America," says Riaz Ahmad, founder of the Pakistani American Congress. "They regularly remind everybody that if you solve the Israel-Palestine issue, those killings would stop...
...will prove faulty, which has happened with anthrax scares in the U.S. and elsewhere: hoax letters have been found in Pakistan in the past few weeks. Nonetheless, says Sardar Abdul Majeed Dasti, Karachi's Superintendent of Police, "This is definitely terrorism. It is aimed to create panic." The word jang does, in fact, mean war, but no one expected the newsroom to become a new front line...