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...young (read: under 70), handsome and polished?rare attributes in Korean politics. When Cho invited Chung to speak at her university last year, she was stunned to see the crowd of cheering, chanting students he attracted: "It was like he was a sports star or an entertainer." Han Sang Jin, a former actor who created the first Chung Mong Joon fan club, says he was impressed when he saw his hero at a football game: "He seems to be one of us, despite all his title and money. People can just walk up to him and start a conversation...
...collected. In a scathing letter to the commission, assistant attorney general for civil rights Ralph Boyd wrote: "Simply put, your refusal prevents the Department of Justice from investigating or otherwise following up these reports in order to ensure that people who need protecting are, in fact, protected." Les Jin, the commission's staff director, responded that the commission doesn't keep a written record of every phone call, and that complainants are given the phone number of the appropriate agency to call themselves. At a contentious hearing on the matter, Berry said, "People around the country have expressed their gratitude...
...soon around the region is All the Way, a mainland road movie she made for Shi Runjiu. It's Mok and a muddle of guys in a vehicle custom-made for her. And for later this year, she talks of a comedy with Hong Kong's prolific producer Wong Jin...
...Equally worrying for Asia are people like Choi Man Jin, head of Union Metal, a small assembler of air-conditioning parts in the Nandong Industrial Park, west of Seoul. Choi says he has halved his staff, and his orders have all but dried up. Hurt badly by Korea's high cost of labor and the economic slump, he is thinking about moving to China. Hundreds of his compatriots have already gone, and big companies in Taiwan, Malaysia and Thailand are doing the same. "China has the potential to wipe Southeast Asia off the map as a manufacturing base," says Michael...
BOOK Waiting by Ha Jin "A fascinating look at marital bonds...