Word: kang
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...hindsight, there were clues to Kim's obstinate leadership style. His single-minded pursuit of the presidency is legendary. Kang Won Yong, head of the Peace Forum, an NGO that promotes North-South relations, first met Kim when the future President came to Seoul from Cholla half a century ago. After dictator Park Chung Hee kidnapped and then released the dissident in 1973, Kim met furtively with Kang in a garage. Afraid of wiretaps, Kim used improvised sign language: a big nose meant the Americans, a tap on the shoulder signified epaulets?Korea's generals. Kim said just one thing...
...helping to develop the territory into a creative city. No metropolis ever became important without world-class academic institutions. Consider the City University of Hong Kong. Earlier this year when one of its professors, Li Shaomin, disappeared into a Chinese jail on trumped-up spy charges, Chang Hsin-kang, City University president, refused to extend any help even as some 600 scholars and colleagues of Li's around the world signed a petition calling for a fair and open trial. Chang excused himself by claiming Li's wife never requested help. (In fact she had asked him twice...
...sale of the movie to the U.S. for coast-to-coast distribution, possibly before the end of the year. Miramax and 20th Century Fox have expressed interest in Little Match Girl and 2009, says Judy Ahn, international sales manager for Tube Entertainment, which is producing both films. Shiri director Kang Je Gyu is setting his sights even higher. There's a hush-hush project in the works, he says, which involves taking his production company to Hollywood to shoot. "We might get a big U.S. star," he says from his trendy office in southern Seoul. "But I can't tell...
...tips. This spring, four members of Good Friends, a Seoul-based refugee aid group working in the area, were held, along with a local translator, in detention for 50 days. They say they were beaten and accused of spying. "The tension is very high right now," says Erica Kang, a spokeswoman for the group...
...Tsai's What Time Is It There? takes place in Taipei and Paris. A street vendor (Lee Kang-sheng) who deals in wristwatches reluctantly sells the one he is wearing to a woman headed for France. In empathy or mourning, he soon is compelled to change all available timepieces?including huge clocks on building faCades?seven hours back, to Paris time. Shot in long takes with a static point of view and hardly any dialogue, the film may goad restless viewers to ask, not "What time is it?" but "Are we there yet?" We suggest you stick around...