Word: koreans
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...Harvard Foundation presented the debate, which was sponsored by the Black Students Association, Education for Action, the Chinese Students Association, Diversity and Distinction, the Ethnic Studies Action Committee, Korean Americans for Culture and Community and the South Asian Association...
...YORK: The North Korean delegation left an historic preliminary round of multilateral talks aimed at formally ending the Korean War with a firm 'no comment,' saying saying they need more time to consider the prop osal. The daylong New York City summit stopped short of full peace negotiations, but provided the opportunity for the U.S. and South Korean delegations to lay out details of a plan proposed last April by President Clinton and President Kim Young Sam of South Korea to hold peace talks between the two Koreas, China and the United States. Despite North Korea's reluctance, the very...
...grew up a second-generation Korean Japanese in a country that has traditionally had little tolerance for immigrants, least of all Koreans. When Son started Softbank in 1981, his ambitions so unnerved his first two employees that they quit within two weeks. The 39-year-old Japanese entrepreneur, who made his first $1 million at age 20 by selling an electronic-pocket-translator patent to Sharp, never blinked. Barely graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, he begged and borrowed enough to build a company that by 1995 controlled half the Japanese market for personal-computer software...
SEOUL, South Korea: Desperate to resuscitate his standing with the South Korean people, President Kim Young-sam Tuesday gave a nationally televised apology for the scandal that has driven his approval ratings below 20 percent. Speaking on the fourth anniversary of his inauguration, a somber Kim said he was "extremely sad, grim and sorry" over aides' involvement in the bribery scandal. Kim also banished his son, 38-year-old Kim Hyun-chul. "What troubles me is that the name of one of my sons is talked about in connection with this case," Kim said. "As other fathers in this world...
...came of age on radio in the late 1930s, when a generation of brilliant radio correspondents chronicled the world's descent into war--news as significant as it was compelling. When the new medium of television came into our living rooms, the news was driven by similar stories: the Korean War, McCarthyism, Vietnam, Watergate. All were stories of the most traditional sort, yet all possessed great drama...