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President Bush may be seen as a unilateralist, but at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, his style never goes it alone. At the annual trade talks, he and 20 other heads of state don the traditional garb of the host city, which last week entailed wearing South Korean hanbok in Pusan, below. Next time the U.S. is host, we predict polychrome cowboy boots...
...plot for 400 years, and while it's increasingly difficult to earn a living from the land, Yuk would be happy knowing his family could go on with the work for 400 more. "The purpose of farming is not to make money," he explains. "It is to preserve the Korean way of life...
...linked to ideals such as national self-sufficiency in food production, and even national identity. Two years ago, at WTO talks held in Canc?n, Mexico, one of Yuk's neighbors, Lee Kyung Hae, died after stabbing himself in the heart to protest the loss of protection for South Korean farmers and the opening of the rice market. That level of passion isn't hard to understand. Chizuru Kamiki, director and food analyst at the Japan Food Culture and Environmental Research Institute in Kobe, says, "Rice defines...
...easy to say, “It’s challenging and I’ve met a ton of interesting people,” but it’s becoming increasingly difficult to say with a straight face that the social life is appreciably better than a North Korean prison. We see an almost daily hate-fest about final clubs, but maybe if Houses were allowed to throw parties that lasted past 2 a.m. or have those parties without filing registration forms days in advance, the clubs wouldn’t seem so appealing. The fact of the matter...
...tight format of opening statements and then two questions from each country's press corps, was filled with surreal moments. Roh went off on a tangent in which he propounded an unconventional reading of American Civil War history in explaining his own country's ginger approach to North Korean human rights issues. "I do understand that President Lincoln was quite slow in liberating the slaves in the United States," Roh said. "This was because the President, if he took the lead in this issue, he thought that America would be divided in opinion, and this would be very serious...