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...ANDREA JUNG When AVON needed a makeover two years ago, Jung practically reinvented the company. She united its disconnected international operations into what she called a global "company for women." For the first time in its 115-year history, she placed in stores products that were competitive with other big brands. She enlisted as an Avon lady, listening to customers and developing incentive and recruiting programs that revitalized the sales force. And as China opens wider to trade, Jung, 42, has a big advantage: though born in Toronto, she learned Mandarin from her parents...
Another Kennedy School student, Mike Jung raised concerns about job security versus risk-taking...
...risk. Midway through the August training camp, which was meant to prepare athletes for the Archery World Championship held two weeks ago in Beijing, four male archers suddenly quit. The Korean Archery Association responded by barring them from international competition for periods ranging from one to five years. Said Jung Pil Woo, head coach of the women's team: "We reprimanded them for the sake of the future of Korean archery...
...Beijing championships, the women finished, as usual, in the gold. But so did the men who replaced the suspended archers and hadn't attended the grueling camp. Could that mean snake handling is overrated? No way, says Jung, the women's team coach: "That's like saying you don't need to practice driving because you managed to somehow get a license without studying." Note to next year's team: see you at the crematorium...
Last fall, a group of Korean religious leaders paid Kim Dae Jung a visit at the presidential Blue House. It should have been a festive occasion. The South Korean President had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, and his push to pry open North Korea seemed to be making progress. In a closed-door session, the visitors sipped orange juice and chatted amiably. Then they delivered some sobering advice. They warned Kim that Koreans were deeply divided over his policy of rapprochement with the North. Sit down with the opposition, they urged, and forge a consensus on how to deal...