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...APPOINTED. CHANG DAE-WHAN, 50, as Prime Minister of South Korea after being chosen by President Kim Dae Jung; in Seoul. Chang is the president and publisher of the Maeil Business newspaper, the country's largest economics daily, and was tapped for the largely ceremonial role after Kim's original choice was vetoed earlier this month. Chang now faces confirmation hearings in an opposition-controlled parliament...
...deny that their dancers are tricked or forced into prostitution. Hyun Ju, Club Y's manager, is emphatic that "no woman has ever been mistreated at this club." She claims that "the owner treats the girls like family. He even takes the girls on holiday to the swimming pool." Kim Kyong Soo, president of the Korean Special Tourism Industry Association, which represents bar owners serving U.S. soldiers across Korea, says his members complain that the U.S. military allows Filipinas into Camp Casey to have sex with soldiers. "That's where the prostitution begins," he insists. "If we put a stop...
...Kim, who owns the Palace Club on the Tongduchon strip, has himself been accused of trafficking in women. In Aug. 1999, police issued an arrest warrant for him on suspicion he brought more than 1,000 Filipina and Russian women into Korea to work as bar girls around U.S. military bases. Kim says he followed legal procedures. A judge cancelled the warrant for lack of evidence and closed the case...
...Kim was working in the area in the early 1960s, when bar owners near the base were granted government approval to form the Tongduchon Special Tourism Industry Association. That gave them the right to buy and sell alcohol tax free to U.S. soldiers and other foreigners. At a time when Korea was still dirt-poor, this was a vital source of foreign exchange?and a way to keep G.I.s from troubling Korean women not involved in the sex industry. Until the early 1990s, the women working downrange were almost all Korean. But in the mid-'90s, with the economy booming...
...sclerotic state on the capitalist road, just as China embarked on economic modernization in the '70s. "The fact that they are tackling the issue and starting to make these changes is significant," says David Morton, head of the World Food Program in Pyongyang. Skeptics suggest North Korean leader Kim Jong Il may be adjusting prices to curb the flourishing black market. A more plausible explanation: persistent food shortages and the need to import fertilizer, fuel and other commodities make it imperative that North Korea develop a functioning economy. The hermit country seems at last to be joining the real world...