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...Most Koreans don't regard Cho Seung-Hui as a "typical Korean" since he spent the bulk of his life immersed in American culture. Still, a collective sense of regret and guilt was palpable today due to the strong tendency of Koreans to perceive the tragedy in terms of Korean nationalism, in which the group trumps the individual. "It's a notion of collective responsibility," says Mike Breen, the author of The Koreans. When a Korean does something wonderful, the country rejoices, but when one of its own goes off the rails, like Cho Seung-Hui, there's a collective...
...country where untold numbers of citizens seem eager to travel, work and live in the United States, many Koreans were dumbfounded when they discovered this morning that the "Asian" campus killer was in fact a 23-year-old South Korean citizen. "I was shocked," says Hong, Sung Pyo, 65, a textile executive in Seoul. "We don't expect Koreans to shoot people, so we feel very ashamed and also worried." Most important, he adds, "we don't want Americans to think all Koreans are this...
...murdered at least 30 people at Virginia Tech and wounded at least 14 others in the nation's worst shooting massacre was a 23-year-old South Korean named Cho Seung-Hui. Cho, an English major, had likely planned his attack for weeks and had written two bizarre plays in which boys accuse authority figures of graphic molestation...
...case. He arrived in San Francisco in August on a visa issued in Shanghai. According to the Sun-Times, bomb threats that Virginia Tech experienced last month may have been attempts to test campus security. By mid-morning, however, reports began surfacing that a permanent resident of South Korean nationality was a suspect...
...Robert Einhorn, who spent nearly three decades at the State Department working on the North Korean nuclear issue, argues that at this point, quiet diplomacy, through China, is the Bush Administration's only option. "The North Koreans don't seem to realize that it is not in their interest to keep undermining and embarrassing those in the Bush Administration who want to find a negotiated solution," says Einhorn, now a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "In for a penny, in for a pound. The Administration has no choice at this stage but to be patient...