Word: koreanness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commission denied historical status to buildings housing the Shilla Korean and Japanese Restaurant and the Holy Cross Armenian Church, setting the stage for their demolition...
...been quoted as predicting he might need a Greyhound bus for all the Cuban athletes. More significantly, all Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games officials and security personnel have been briefed by members of the Immigration and Naturalization Service on what to do in case a Cuban, a North Korean or an Iraqi asks for temporary asylum. (Basically, they were instructed to isolate and protect the Olympian until an ins representative arrives on the scene.) And at the boxing venue on the Georgia Tech campus, officials were fully expecting the defection of one or more of the Cuban boxers...
BEIJING: China's President Jiang Zemin says China will accept the invitation extended by the United States and South Korea to mediate four-party talks aimed at reaching a permanent peace on the Korean peninsula. A South Korean newspaper today quotes Jiang as saying, "We hope to play a constructive role for peace on the Korean peninsula." The two Koreas ended their 1950s hostilities with an armistice, and are technically still at war. Until now, there had been no official word on China's reaction to the April proposal by President Clinton and President Kim Young-sam of South Korea...
...receive free meals and health care. While that amount seems like little more than slavery, it's roughly twice the country's minimum wage--if the factory owner abides by the rules. Nike, like most of the big American firms, does not own any factories in Indonesia; it hires Korean and Taiwanese-owned factories to supply footwear made to Nike specifications. The company has some 800 staff members in Asia whose responsibility includes factory inspection. Yet, says an industry source, "shoe factories are huge. There are 3,000 workers in there. Our inspectors try to manage...
...boxing tournament at the 1988 Seoul Games was marred by several controversial decisions, most notably one that gave a gold medal to Korean Park Si-hun over American Roy Jones Jr. According to a report in USA Today, British author Andrew Jennings says he has obtained a document from the files of the former East German police that apparently describes payoffs to judges to fix fights in favor of South Koreans. The charge is contained in his book The New Lords of the Rings...