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...North Asia, it was supposed to be the year of living harmoniously. In January, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun rang in the Korea-Japan Friendship Year in Seoul by announcing, "Let's be friends happily and head toward the future." This sunny message was an echo of the event's catchy theme song, Dance with Me, performed by Korean singer Lena Park and a Japanese band called Chemistry. China also picked up on the good vibes and was making efforts to put aside its long-standing antipathy toward Japan: a group of women climbers from Japan and China arranged...
...said its 1,200 stores would no longer stock products from Japanese companies whose top brass are associated with a group sympathetic to the new textbook. Meanwhile, Seoul?where people were already angry that a Japanese prefecture recently claimed a remote rocky islet as its own, even though the Korean coast guard has been patrolling it for 57 years?reacted with similar indignation. Particularly galling to South Koreans was that Japan's education czars had directed four Japanese textbook publishers to refer to the disputed island as Japanese territory...
Friday, April 8. The Harvard Korean Association presents the Korean Culture Show. 7:30 p.m. Lowell Lecture Hall. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office...
...Crash begins, people of Hispanic, Korean, African, Caucasian, and Middle-Eastern descent verbally tear holes in each other—a Martian could pick up on the racial tension...
...recognize the name Paju, chances are that it conjures up visions of soldiers and barbed wire. As the South Korean city closest to the Demilitarized Zone that divides the South from communist North Korea, Paju has long lived beneath a cloud of military tension. Now, a nearby cultural venture known as Heyri Art Valley (heyri.net) is trying to change that image by establishing the area as a mecca of arts tourism...