Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SEOUL: Knowing how quickly public disgust can wither a strike, protesting unions are sending their charges back to work--for free. As part of a "Day of solidarity with the people" arranged by the outlawed Confederation of Trade Unions, striking auto mechanics provided free tuneups in 12 South Korean cities, and some nurses and hospital workers set up tents offering free blood-pressure checks and services for the elderly. The confederation also promised that thousands of striking workers would hit the streets with brooms in a cleanup campaign, while others would help dig out remote villages snowed...
...some cherished job security for a more competitive South Korea. "The revision of labor laws . . . will provide a significant impetus for improved competitiveness," the president said. "Those with whom the workers and firms should be competing are their foreign counterparts." Thirteen days of strikes have already cost the South Korean economy $1.4 billion in lost production. And while the idled auto and shipbuilding industries still account for the bulk of the losses, angry unions clearly hope that widening the scope of the protests will give them the leverage--and longevity--they need to prevail...
...Bill has a way of defusing tension with an offbeat joke," says his wife Barbara. For instance, at one point during discussions with the dour North Koreans over Hunziker's release, Richardson asked matter-of-factly, "Well, does he still have his fingernails?" The North Korean negotiators sat stunned for a second, then broke out laughing...
...stockbrokers and opening branch offices in New York City, Boston, Miami, Dallas and Basel, Switzerland. Customers have been solicited through television commercials on cnbc in the U.S. and nbc Super Channel, an English-language cable channel in Europe. An Asian marketing group runs ads in Japanese, Chinese and Korean newspapers in California, and there are plans to open offices in Hong Kong and Taipei. Oxford has also plunged into cyberspace with its own Internet site, enabling investors to trade online...
...Young-sun, a South Korean food vendor, explaining his decision to continue to violate a government ban on selling dog meat for human consumption. Although some critics claim that many of the butchered dogs are stolen pets, speciality shops continue to sell dog meat soups, which are often advertised as "tonic soups" or "bow-wow soups." Superstition holds that these soups heighten male sexual prowess...