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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Whole New World | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Whole New World | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...Village) when you've been told that monsters lurk there. Or a dip in the ocean (in the low-budget thriller Open Water) when you're left stranded as shark bait. Try to wash out that feeling of dread by shampooing your hair (in the Japanese spookathon Ju-on: The Grudge). You begin to rub in the shampoo--and for a moment you feel a third hand, corpse cold, massaging your scalp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scary And Smart | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The King of Racewalking | 5/23/2004 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zhang Yimou Interview | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

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