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...have been intruding into Korean public life with disturbing regularity. A long-running influence-peddling scandal in Seoul has yielded a steady stream of revelations about unsavory ties between gangsters and politicians. One of the biggest shockers came in October when the eldest son of President Kim Dae Jung was forced to admit he had met at least twice with the powerful mobster-cum-political-fixer at the center of the scandal. Koreans nervously laughed off the finger-cutting protesters as nationalistic nitwits, but they were more alarmed by allegations of shady backroom deals between gangsters, law enforcement officials...
...them up. His Son of the Fire sold 200,000 copies. Cho chopped off his own pinkie in public in 1974 after an ethnic Korean gunman from Japan shot the wife of dictator Park Chung Hee. Called danji (finger chopping) the gesture was immortalized by independence fighter Ahn Jung Geun, who in 1909 swore to assassinate Japanese political leaders, writing the oath in blood from the stump of his severed finger. (Japan's yakuza also cut off their own digits, but that's usually to atone for blunders.) Cho's idol is Kim Du Han, the legendary gangster who battled...
Colin Powell may be a hero, but he doesn't bake cookies for foreign leaders like Madeline Albright. He's also not pen pals with Kim Il Jung. Paul O'Neill is no Lloyd Bentsen, or Bob Rubin either. John Ashcroft may hold the perfect beliefs of an Attorney General from 125 years ago, but he will never welcome us to Janet Reno's Dance Party and tell us to "Stop moshing!" In fact, Ashcroft is so conservative that he refused to dance at his own gubernatorial inaugural ball in Missouri. Labor Secretary Chao can see over a podium. Clinton...
...access for as little as a dollar an hour. Three years ago, there was a handful of such cafes; today there are at least 20,000. At any hour of the day or night, people are playing games, sending e-mail, doing homework or looking for online love. Cho Jung Wan is spending up to 10 hours a day playing Lineage, killing a few weeks' time before he starts his military service. "After collecting weapons and stuff online, I feel like I've gotten rich in the real world," he says...
...Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia; the Serbian people overthrew Slobodan Milosevic; South Korean President Kim Dae Jung put his country and North Korea on their best footing in 50 years; Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat failed to reach an Israeli-Palestinian agreement; and Vicente Fox ended 70 years of P.R.I. rule in Mexico through the ballot. To people outside the U.S., the presidential election was hardly the event that contributed the most to influencing the news, for better or worse, in 2000. JOAO LUIS HAMBURGER Sao Paulo...