Word: koreanness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While students affected by the crash are caught in a web of unfriendly federal rules, pressure is on schools to find their own solutions. A special Korean Student Association meeting recently suggested making available long-term loans with low interest rates and increasing hiring of international students in academic departments. Jobs, loans, scholarships and fundraisers are the solution...
...foreign contract workers, mostly from China, Bangladesh and the Philippines, shipped in to service a garment industry that exploits Saipan's exemption from a number of American labor and immigration controls. This allows the garment factories, most run by Chinese or South Korean firms, to pay foreign laborers substantially less than the minimum wage but still export nearly $1 billion worth of clothes annually to American markets--patriotically stamped MADE IN THE USA and free of duties and quotas that apply to products made in China and Korea...
...best interest to see the system work," he says. But Tenorio does not plan to close down the garment industry to stave off a federal takeover. "I think it's premature for me to say 'Close down' after these people invested so much money." Since the Chinese and Korean firms moved in, Saipan's revenues have jumped from $224 million in 1985 to $2 billion last year...
...regularly does not tell the truth," says Yoshiaki Yoshimi, a professor of history at Tokyo's Chuo University. "They simply demand our trust." Yoshimi made headlines several years ago when, after painstaking research, he documented the charge that during World War II the Japanese military had forced Chinese and Korean women into prostitution. Like other evidence of wartime atrocities, this is still denied by many in Japan, which, unlike Germany, has never publicly encouraged real debate on its role in the war. "This is pathetic," says Yoshimi...
...think [hostility] is prevalent because the majority of [college] students who come aren't the brightest of students and [come because they] couldn't handle the Korean system," the sophomore said. "Also, they tend to be rich and wasteful, spending a lot of money...