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...Mart is paying in its Secaucus, N.J., store. Maybe the cops can get a second job to make ends meet, since they can't afford to live in the city they protect. The same city where sweatshops thrive in Chinatown, immigrant Mexican help has been grossly underpaid by immigrant Korean deli owners, and immigrant African deliverymen had been getting $1.25 per hour at unionized Manhattan supermarkets (relying on tips) until authorities finally stepped in. "Wal-Mart's values are not New York's values," proclaimed Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union/UFCW. You got that right...
...this could probably be the last time Byun will see his relatives in the North. Tens of thousands of other South Koreans are still on a waiting list for both video and face-to-face exchanges. "It will take at least ten years for everyone to see their relatives at this rate," predicts Young Woon Choi, head of the Inter-Korean Cooperation Team. The video exchanges cost the Korean Red Cross $340,000 a pop and can be canceled at a moment's notice or whenever the North decides to throw another hissy fit. Not surprisingly, many folks...
...Other family encounters don't go off without a hitch. "Why did you leave my mother in the North when you went to the South?" a young North Korean man asks his obviously frail 93-year-old South Korean grandmother. His antipathy resonates, and the distressed woman's head drops. A minute later, a Red Cross doctor enters the room with a portable bed. But the rest of the family does not let the distraction gobble up precious time, and one of the siblings quickly sheds light on the subject, explaining her mother tried to return but couldn?t because...
...identically furnished room down the corridor sits another South Korean family, listening to a female North Korean relative, wax lyrical about "Great Kim Jong Il" and how his philanthropic nature enabled them to lead a good life. Her South Korean relatives are not impressed, and implore their relative to stop "talking politics" and stay on topic, in other words, talk only about...
...Ultimately, though, the advertising opportunities may prove too tempting to wait for invitations. "Korean teenagers send on average 66 text messages a day," Spurrell says. "They have a higher emotional attachment to their mobile than to their mother." Now he has to convince consumers to love the ads as much as they love their phones...