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Kathlene S. G. Joo ’11, a sophomore in Eliot House, died suddenly yesterday morning. Friends said that she combined a love for athletics and academics during her time at Harvard...
Hoping to attend medical school, the Pittsburgh, Pa. native studied neurobiology at the College, working to complete the pre-med curriculum. Outside of lab and lectures, Joo stayed involved in the medical community as a member of the Harvard Cancer Society, serving as a regular volunteer at Massachusetts General Hospital...
...radically different. "Do not conflate the end of the Kim regime with the end of North Korea as a state," says Andrew Scobell, a political scientist from Texas A&M University, who wrote a paper for the Pentagon last year assessing the North's future. Baek Seung Joo, who watches North Korea at the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis, says, "We have been through a transition before." When Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il's father, died suddenly in 1994, Kim Jong Il succeeded with little apparent problem. "Outsiders," Baek says, "constantly underestimate the durability of this government...
...South Korea, golf-club memberships are the ultimate status symbol among the country's newly rich. Limited in number, memberships in the most prestigious clubs trade like prized stocks and often reach hundreds of thousands of dollars. A year ago, the golf membership belonging to Kim Joo Hyong, the chief executive of a small trading firm, was worth $350,000. But as the shockwaves from the U.S. financial meltdown slammed into South Korea in September, Kim nervously watched cash-starved golfers dump their memberships on an Internet site that tracks their value, sending prices plummeting. The country, he became convinced...
...Joo Hong, the manager of the music business department at the Isang Yun Peace Foundation, wrote in an e-mail that the concert’s organizers invited Koh to perform Yun’s cello concerto because “Bong-Ihn’s playing Isang Yun’s music has the infinite possibility to contribute to the peace and reunification of North and South Korea...