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...Korean exports eases globally. In February South Korea is expected to post its third straight monthly trade deficit - the first time that's happened in more than five years - as high oil prices and declining exports continue to bite. "The external environment helped the two previous Presidents," says Kim Kyeong Won, an economist and senior vice president of the Samsung Economic Research Institute (SERI), "but it won't be working as good for President...
...politicians are calling the project a boondoggle, although Lee insists the $16 billion project can be privately funded so that taxpayers won't have to pick up the tab. "Obviously, [the canal] would help the economy," in part because it would employ tens of thousands of construction workers, says Kim of SERI. But "no one is sure about its profitability," he adds...
...frigid Monday afternoon, under a fading sun and a beaming visage of Kim Il Sung, the late "Great Leader" of North Korea, the music director of the New York Philharmonic orchestra today led the largest American contingent since the end of the Korean war into Pyongyang, the capital city of the world's most isolated regime. When Lorin Maazel stepped off a chartered Asiana Airlines 747 from Beijing and shook the hand of North Korea's deputy minister of culture, Song Sok Hwan, the Gershwin offensive had begun...
...that abounds there. “[At MIT,] you can try something, and even if it don’t work, you can try something else,” he says. “And I really like that.” —Staff writer Elsa S. Kim can be reached at elsakim@fas.harvard.edu...
...images in “All Shook Up,” while revitalizing, are not revolutionary. They may not arouse any great emotions or cataclysmic questions, but, at the least, they’re very nice to look at.—Staff writer Elsa S. Kim can be reached at elsakim@fas.harvard.edu...