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...amid a phone-tapping scandal. In his farewell speech, borrowing from Othello, Haughey told the Irish parliament: "I have done the state some service and they know it." Numbers 7 Number of people whose deaths were attributed to excessive video-game playing last year, including a South Korean man who died after almost 50 straight hours of gaming $442 Cost per night for a bed in a new center for online-game addicts in Amsterdam. Clinics in the U.S., China, France and South Korea now offer similar therapies...
Sometimes the best marketing ideas take on a life of their own. Seeking to publicize the skin-care benefits of grooming products made with local mineral-rich mud, the South Korean city of Boryeong staged a small "mud festival" in 1998. Eight years later, the annual Boryeong Mud Festival, mudfestival.or.kr, sees a staggering 1.5 million visitors flock to the normally sleepy seaside destination for a week of gooey fun. Located 200 km (or about a two-hour bus ride) from Seoul, on the country's west coast, Boryeong is home to the soft and seemingly endless Daecheon Beach. From July...
...Great food hall, tel: (852) 2918 9986, overflows with gourmet comestibles, stocking around 46,000 products from exquisite smoked salmon and marinated olives to fresh oysters. But it's the non-Western delights that are Great's real points of difference, with the store boasting very wide Japanese, Korean and kosher selections alongside the Italian, German or French fare. Choose your sashimi or sushi, get some kimchi on the side, and then head over to nearby Hong Kong Park for Asian alfresco dining...
...more companies are coming around to Lheem's thinking. Near Hyundai's plant, Nokia opened the first phase of a $150 million mobile-phone factory in March. In the state of Orissa on India's east coast, South Korean steel giant Posco plans to construct a $12 billion mill. SemIndia, a company formed by chip-industry executives, will break ground in June on a $3 billion semiconductor factory in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Others are coming around, too. Dell Computer recently announced its intention to build a factory in India, joining those it already has in China...
...India to take advantage of low costs, thereby keeping the business profitable. One-third of its cars produced in India are exported to Germany, Peru, South Africa and elsewhere. Opened in 1998, the plant was operating long before Hyundai opened factories in China or the U.S. and the South Korean carmaker is already building a second, $1 billion facility next door. Why? "We are going to use India as an export hub, and the domestic market is also growing very fast," says Lheem Heung Soo, managing director of Hyundai in India. "Right now the only difficulty is how to produce...