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Industrialist, parliamentarian, and suave football diplomat who brought the World Cup to South Korea, Chung Mong Joon wants you to know he's also a jock. Flying down to southern Cheju Island from Seoul to watch a football game a week before the Cup, Chung, 50, is leaning back in his seat and pointing to his left elbow, which he banged up playing basketball. He shifts his left shoulder: crushed bones and severed tendons in a ski-racing accident. Then there's the right knee fractured by a football tackle. Pointing to a scar on his right hand, he smiles...
...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...
...five years of tax breaks. Each South Korean will be allowed to spend $1,200 on duty-free purchases from Cheju each year. And perhaps most appealing to business--imports will be tariff free. "It can be an important port for exports to Japan and the U.S.," says Joon Yeob Han, spokesman for the South Korean embassy in Washington--who fondly recalls his honeymoon on Cheju more than 20 years...
...Isle took sexual fetishism to new extremes: fishhooks became S&M tools. Park Chul Soo's feminist 301, 302 developed a friendship between a female anorexic and her overweight neighbor?only for the larger woman to eat the anorexic. Dogs, directed by first-time helmer Bong Joon Ho, takes on a lesser taboo in a manner reminiscent of another of this year's inspired works, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie from Montmartre. Both Bong and Jeunet have an eye for eccentric detail, produce a bagful of tricks and visual kink and find the most unlikely "feel good factor." Dogs' bark...
...other members of the group's Steering Committee are Tobias B. Jacoby '00, vice president of communications and finance; S. Joon Pahk '00, vice president of spirituality; Nina S. Sawyer '01, vice president of community development and Matthew S. Vogel '01, vice president of social justice...