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...When Korean university student Chang Je Hyung did a brief stint at Samsung's office in Berlin last year, it made him angry. He had to help prepare a holiday trip to Germany for chairman Lee Kun Hee and his family. According to Chang, dozens of Samsung employees spent two months sweating over details of the private visit, even going to fancy restaurants to try out food the chairman might eat. Instead of tipping off the mainstream media, Chang sent a first-person account to online newspaper OhmyNews earlier this year. It created a sensation...
Chalk up another scoop for OhmyNews, the feisty phenomenon that is rewriting the rules for Korean media and, if founder Oh Yeon Ho has his way, may soon be doing the same outside Korea as well. Part blog, part professional news agency, OhmyNews gets up to 70% of its copy from some 38,000 "citizen reporters" like Chang-basically anyone with a story and a laptop to write it on. Editors vet the articles, rejecting nearly one-third. Launched in 2000, it has snowballed into a kind of raucous online mall for Korea's wired younger generation-a place...
...South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk revealed to the world last week that he had improved upon existing methodology to create embryonic stem cell lines tailored to individual patients, bringing the goal of individual stem cell therapy one step closer to fruition...
Only the most elite citizens of North Korea are allowed by the government to use cell phones. But that hasn't stopped Samsung, the South Korean consumer-electronics giant, from looking north for a celebrity to pitch its latest handsets. The company announced last week that it has hired dancer Cho Myung Ae as a model to help sell its Anycall mobile phones, which the Samsung ads claim can be used anywhere in the world--with the possible exception of North Korea, where citizens need government permission to even talk to foreigners. "It's symbolic," says Lee Jeong...
...commercials are expected to begin airing by early July and will be the first to feature a North Korean who is not a defector. The famed beauty already has an online fan club in South Korea with more than 16,000 members; admirers set up the site after she performed in Seoul at an inter-Korean reconciliation event in 2002. Cheil says Cho will be paid an amount similar to what South Korean entertainers get for TV spots. Industry insiders estimate that could be as much as $200,000--or roughly 14,000 times what the average North Korean earns...