Word: kang
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...government's sights as early as September and October after his blogposts predicted the fall of U.S investment bank Lehman Brothers as well as the won's decline. Minerva had become such a sensation during the global financial meltdown that Korea's Minister of Strategy and Finance, Kang Man Soo, weighed in, saying he hoped to furnish the blogger with more economic facts so he would trust the government. (See 10 things to do in Seoul...
...Monday Obama joined Chicago friends Eric Whitaker, Martin Nesbitt, aide Eugene Kang and Punahou High classmates Bobby Titcomb Greg Orme for a round at the Mid-Pacific Country Club in the exclusive seaside community of Lanikai. (Obama may be the most successful graduate of Punahou but not its best golfer. PGA tour member Parker McLachlin and LPGA phenom Michelle Wie hail from the school.) (See Obama's family tree...
...actually exacerbate the situation. “Restricting the time to two hours is a bit dangerous to undergraduates because it sort of encourages people to cram as much drinking into a small amount of time,” said Co-Chair of the Eliot HoCo Louis K. Kang ’09. Kang said that Eliot House is still planning a fully themed affair. “We’re going to have a country theme set up,” Kang said. “We’re going to get a cardboard...
...Kang Il Chul, a South Korean woman abducted from her home at age fifteen and forced into sex slavery during World War II by Japanese soldiers occupying Korea, told her story to a packed crowd of students at Harvard Law School’s Pound Hall yesterday evening. “When they came for me it was on a day when my parents were not at home. I was fifteen. They had no way of knowing where I was,” Kang said through a translator. “They had to live with sorrow. How much...
...unfortunately, no strangers to hunger. In the 1990s, a severe famine is thought to have left up to a million North Koreans dead. Though aid workers say the country is not facing a full-blown famine, the shortage appears to be the worst food crisis since the 1990s. Erica Kang, director of the Seoul-based human-rights group Good Friends, says a "few hundred thousand people are in danger or at risk of famine" in North Korea. Marcus Noland, an expert on the North Korean economy at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, believes that "hunger deaths...