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...personal message," it reads. You click it open, a video whirs and there he is, in all his boyish glory: "Hi, I'm Leonardo Di Caprio and I've just made the movie Gangs of New York. I really hope you'll come and see me." If film promoter Kim Dong Joo can pull it off, hordes of Korean fans will receive this online missive just before the movie's Christmas-season release in Seoul. For girls who can't get enough of the Titanic heartthrob it's a "fantastic illusion," says Kim, who began his career at 20th Century...
...Kim first tried the e-mail stunt earlier this year with Friends, a star-studded buddy flick set in the port city of Pusan in the 1970s. Using a name list culled from an online site, his company, Korea Pictures, fired off a video pitch featuring the film's star Jang Dong Gun (sort of a South Korean Tom Cruise) to 1 million hard-core moviegoers. The movie this month became Korea's biggest blockbuster ever. It's hard to know exactly how much the Internet helped, but if an online pitch is going to work anywhere...
Following his discharge, Hunter went home to Greenville a changed man. A sometime churchgoer before his illness, he returned with fervor to Russell Memorial Baptist Church, where his wife Kim was a lifelong parishioner. He has since missed, at most, two Sundays, and coaches many of the church-sponsored youth athletic teams. Readers of TIME's report have deluged him with stories about their own encounters with angels...
...been deteriorating almost as fast as his liver. Consumed by wrestling, he was seldom home. When he called from the road, if his son Blake, now 7, answered, the boy would hand the phone in silence to his mom. Now father and son--and daughter Brittany, 13--are inseparable. Kim calls her husband "a totally different human--a lot more of a family man." When Hunter grew concerned about his future with his employer, Joytime Amusement Co., he consulted his wife about the wisdom of changing jobs--no small decision in light of his need for medical insurance...
...Kim, the orphan, isn't the only one living in fear along this border, where China's ethnic Koreans are concentrated and Korean is as much the lingua franca as Chinese. Unlike the heavily guarded demilitarized zone that delineates North Korea's border with the South, this is a porous, Wild West frontier, teeming with traders, smugglers, government agents and bride traffickers. More than 300,000 North Koreans were in the area in 1999, according to a clandestine survey carried out by Good Friends. The lucky ones live with relatives or find their way to an underground missionary shelter...