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...survey done in 2001 showed that 20% of refugees polled were unemployed and nearly 32% had only temporary work. "The gap between South and North Korean standards is too wide," says refugee Chung Ju Hwa. "The government should assume we are starting from zero...
...existence they left behind. "They have to be willing to work as street vendors if that's what it takes to learn the market economy," says Lee Min Bok, a former North Korean agricultural scientist who now heads a Christian refugee association. And some are doing just fine. Ju Sun Young, an actress in North Korean propaganda films?she played Kim Jong Il's mother?opened a restaurant last August, just eight months after arriving in South Korea. This year she opened a second outlet that offers nightly performances of North Korean songs and dances. "My dream is to become...
...finished, and athletics was the only session open." Walking was his destiny. In 1984, he qualified for the Polish championships, where he placed last. But competing on a big stage planted a seed: "I started to dream." The dreams fueled his drive, and led to strong results at major ju-nior meets like the World Student Games in 1991. But success, he now says, convinced him he was better than he actually was. "Thanks to God, I was disqualified at the '92 Olympics and again in '93 [at the Worlds]," he says. Disqualification is common among walkers, but it doesn...
...These evangelicals?part of a band of some 150 Korean Christians spreading their Gospel throughout the Middle East, according to the Korean NGO Global Civic Sharing?were stopped at a checkpoint early on April 8 and accused by a group of Iraqis of being American spies. (Pastor Byun Kyung Ju told TIME that at the same checkpoint she saw another group of Asians in a car in front of them also being detained. Their luggage was set on fire by the side of the road, and the group was then hustled into another car and driven off.) Afraid to admit...
Zhang Yimou is China's most celebrated director. His films Hero, Raise the Red Lantern and Ju Dou were all nominated for Best Foreign-Language Film Oscars. His latest project, House of Flying Daggers, is a big-budget martial-arts epic in which Andy Lau co-stars. Zhang, 52, spoke with TIME's Neil Gough at his editing studio in Beijing...