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...develop nuclear weapons only as a deterrent to the threatening nuclear superpower of the U.S. [Feb. 21]. President Bush included North Korea in his notorious "axis of evil," along with Iraq and Iran. He invaded Iraq and has now focused world attention on Iran. He said he loathes North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and called him a "pygmy." The U.S. has in the past maintained up to 40,000 troops at North Korea's border with the South. Bush needs only to look in the mirror to see the person most responsible for forcing North Korea to go nuclear...
...theatre was filled to capacity the night of Chihwaseon’s screening, and the audience included a sizeable contingent of Korean-speaking patrons. This linguistic divide proved a tad discomforting during the question-and-answer session that followed the movie: Kwon-taek’s replies were often witty and poignant, but his translator (Professor Kyung Hyun Kim of the University of California Irvine) struggled to keep pace with the director. Often, by the time the English-speaking audience had received its version of the directors comments, the Korean-speaking filmgoers were already in stitches or gasping with delight...
...questioner posed a query to the director in Korean, then at the request of the translator, restated it in English for the audience, but what sounded like a discursive and complex question when posed in Korean was a sound bite in the translation...
...HFA’s greater failing, however, was its lack of contextualizing materials for the filmgoer new to Kwon-taek’s oeuvre, or Korean cinema and culture in general. A brief essay on the politics and culture of late 19th-century Korea would have gone a long way towards improving the viewing experience...
Angela S. Kim ’06 buys us mini Finale cakes to celebrate birthdays and to drown disappointments. As her future self, she’ll still wear ginormous headphones as she listens to an eclectic mix of Korean pop, hip-hop (à la 50 Cent), and mellow alternative (à la Postal Service). When she goes to the cocktail parties at our 25th reunion, she’ll still fan her cheeks and ask if they look red after just one drink...