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...often, they pay an appalling price to feel?and look?cool. Among the 30 patients in the head-injury ward at Hanoi's Viet Duc Hospital, doctors say 70-80% are there due to motorcycle accidents. Dr. Nguyen Kim Lien, a steely eyed woman in her 40s who runs the ward, estimates that a third of her patients wouldn't be there if they had been wearing helmets. For her part, Dr. Lien says she sticks to a bicycle, always wears a helmet and insists that all her family members do, too. But old habits are hard to change, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mean Streets | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...North Korea, Yoo Seun Eum's job was considered to be a prestigious one: she ensured that the comrades in her local ward carefully dusted the official portraits of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il and his father, the late Kim Il Sung, hanging on their homes' walls. But life was grim, and after two sons fled to South Korea in 1997, she followed three years later. Since her arrival, Yoo has drifted through a string of menial, low-paying jobs. Now working as a cleaning woman, she is able to make ends meet with a small temporary stipend from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Whole New World | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...plight of North Korean refugees in South Korea has long been a controversial issue, one that the Seoul government would rather keep out of the newspapers so as not to damage ultrasensitive relations with Pyongyang's high-strung dictator, Kim Jong Il. But hiding refugees from the media became more difficult last week, when 468 North Koreans?the largest group to reach the South since the end of the Korean War?stepped off two jets at a military airport south of Seoul ready to take their place in South Korean society. The group, which had been hiding in Vietnam after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Whole New World | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...street vendors if that's what it takes to learn the market economy," says Lee Min Bok, a former North Korean agricultural scientist who now heads a Christian refugee association. And some are doing just fine. Ju Sun Young, an actress in North Korean propaganda films?she played Kim Jong Il's mother?opened a restaurant last August, just eight months after arriving in South Korea. This year she opened a second outlet that offers nightly performances of North Korean songs and dances. "My dream is to become the CEO of my own company," says Ju. Beats dusting portraits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Whole New World | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...industry of abandoning children, he laid out some suggestions for re-capturing what used to be the medium's core audience, including putting actual kid characters into kids comics. In spite of its critical nature, the speech was met with strong applause. Highlights of the awards included Derek Kirk Kim's Talent Deserving Wider Recognition (see TIME.comix review), Vertical Inc.'s "Buddha" for Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material (see TIME.comix review), and Craig Thompson's "Blankets" for Best Graphic Album - New (see TIME.comix review). The jaw-dropping lowlight had to have been the award for Best Graphic Album - Reprint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other Big Convention | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

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