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...Koreans, who could forget the sight of 40,000 delirious fans jumping up and down in Daejeon Stadium the night their forward Ahn Jung Hwan grabbed a 117th minute Golden Goal to knock Italy out of the World Cup? Or the 100,000 Koreans who, in the spirit of hospitality, served as volunteer supporters for other nations...
...widening corruption scandal swirling around President Kim Dae Jung and his Millenium Democratic Party (MDP) has boosted the buzz level. Last week, prosecutors arrested presidential son Kim Hong Up on charges of bribery and influence-peddling. He joins Kim Hong Gul, the President's youngest son, now under indictment for bribery. The scandal has deflated support for MDP presidential candidate Roh Moo Hyun, widely seen as President Kim's horse in the December poll (Kim is constitutionally barred from running again). Party members are also alarmed about the shellacking the MDP got in local elections in early June. The smart...
...DONALD MACINTYRE Seoul Virtually the only person italian officials did not blame for their team's shock defeat by South Korea was Osama bin Laden. Italy, the country that invented vendetta, wasn't content merely to point fingers, either. Someone had to take the fall. The victim: Ahn Jung Hwan, who scored the golden goal for Korea that knocked Italy out of the Cup. Prior to his hometown heroics, Ahn was an unremarkable player for Perugia in Italy's Serie A league. Perugia president Luciano Gaucci last week booted Ahn off the team. "I have no intention of paying...
...energize the Korean side after just 18 months on the job, despite constant barbs from a press and a public skeptical of his unorthodox (for Korea) coaching methods. "At first, people didn't know how to react to him, because he was different from Korean coaches," says phenom Ahn Jung Hwan, who has headed in two of Korea's World Cup goals and connected in Saturday's shoot-out as well. "But it was his unique style that made our team so confident and prepared...
...possibly put a damper on the beer-soaked crowds: the U.S., too, had advanced to the second round, precisely because Park's goal had relegated the Portuguese. But for once, the Koreans felt no twinge of insecurity. "We are both powerful now," says 36-year-old reveler Lee So Jung. "We can celebrate together." For the Koreans, victory has brought maturity...