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...needn't have fretted. In the 69th minute of the match, midfielder Park Ji Sung deftly executed one of the prettiest strikes of the Cup. As fireworks flashed overhead, more than 400,000 citizens poured onto the streets of Seoul to celebrate. Only one thing could possibly put a damper on the beer-soaked crowds: the U.S., too, had advanced to the second round, precisely because Park's goal had relegated the Portuguese. But for once, the Koreans felt no twinge of insecurity. "We are both powerful now," says 36-year-old reveler Lee So Jung. "We can celebrate together...
...DAVID JI AND ANCLE HSU Outsorcerers...
...little more than three years, Ji, 50, and Hsu, 41, founders of Apex Digital in Ontario, Calif., have sold enough cheap DVD players in North America to steal a 14% share of that market. The firm has machines assembled for a pittance in China and sells them in the U.S. at such bargain stores as Wal-Mart. Now Apex is targeting TVs. It will have 18 models out by June. Not bad for a pair who began by peddling scrap metal to China...
...Gyun Woo (Cha Tae-hyun) sees a drunk girl (Jeon Ji-hyun) late one night on the subway. He watches her throw up over two fellow travelers and collapse, but not before she's called him "Honey" on the way down. Says Gyun Woo in narrative: "This one word just screwed up my life...
...house she shared with her husband until he died a decade ago. It's big and sturdy, all faded wood except for the stone porch. She still grows pineapples and cassavas out back; she may be old but she has to work or she feels weak. Her husband, Ji Chiu, was first generation. He came to work the tin mines, a "sold piglet," as they were called, since they were sold by their parents with no real promise of return. She met him when she sold coconut cookies to the tin miners. They had five children, but twins died...