Word: koreanness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professor of Korean History Carter J. Eckert presented stark, barren images of the North Korean landscape and people to members of the Korean Association last night in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...
...North Korean government invited Eckert as well as other scholars and business executives from the U.S. to visit the free-trade zone in the northern part of the country this past April. The government plans to develop the province into an industrial zone...
...rare opportunity for us to see what's going on in North Korea" said Steve W. Chung '01, co-chair for education and politics for the Korean Association...
Eckert, who advises the Korean Association, is a renowned Korea scholar...
...indication of how far Asian Americans have come in politics that John Lim, who is running for U.S. Senator in Oregon, thinks his thick Korean accent is actually an asset with voters. "They love it," he says. "They know I speak with a sincerity about who I am." Lim, 62, immigrated to the U.S. in 1966 and worked odd jobs--janitor, gardener, house painter--before entering the real estate business. In 1990, as a political neophyte, Lim finished second in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Two years later, he won a seat in the state senate. Now Lim has spun...