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...first rubber stamp we could find,” explained Kevin Koo ’07, a board member of the Race, Culture, and Diversity Initiative, the group that organized the event...
...over its top job to a farm boy from a tiny village in eastern South Korea. Kim Ssang Su spent his childhood knee-deep in the family's rice paddies. Even now, Kim is a bit of a fish out of water. He took over from the debonair John Koo, a senior member of LG's prestigious founding family. Kim has never worked outside Korea or, before becoming CEO, even at LG's glitzy Seoul headquarters, known locally as the "Twin Towers." He had spent his entire career buried in LG's stuffy bureaucracy at the company's main appliance...
...over its top job to a farm boy from a tiny village in eastern South Korea. Kim Ssang Su spent his childhood knee-deep in the family's rice paddies. Even now, Kim is a bit of a fish out of water. He took over from the debonair John Koo, a senior member of LG's prestigious founding family. Kim has never worked outside Korea or, before becoming CEO, even at LG's glitzy Seoul headquarters, known locally as the "twin towers." He had spent his entire career buried in LG's stuffy bureaucracy at the company's main appliance...
...Kevin Koo...
...This was just the latest blow for Korea's national sport. In January, the president of the Korea Taekwondo Association, Koo Cheon Seo, was convicted of bribery; the same month, the president and treasurer of the U.S. Taekwondo Union stepped down amid charges of financial mismanagement. All that is bad news in the runup to the 2008 Beijing Games: Koreans are worried that Taekwondo could get bumped out of the Olympics altogether in favor of a Chinese martial art called wushu. "The I.O.C. wants to see Taekwondo clean itself up," says Steven Capener, a former U.S. national Taekwondo team member...