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...home country. He spoke about the extreme lack of food in North Korea, describing how people would eat tree bark, plant roots, and weeds to stay alive. “He knows very well about the situation in North and South Korea,” said Hyung Kun Lee, a Korean consul in Boston, who attended Choi’s speech. “His story is very tragic, and I have much sympathy for him.” This is HRiNK’s first year putting on an awareness week, an event they have been planning since...
...heeded as law. In the country at large, these titans of industry, though often distrusted, are lauded as the men who transformed an impoverished backwater into a modern nation with the world's 13th largest economy. This week, however, one of the most powerful fell from his pedestal. Lee Kun Hee, 66, the chairman of Samsung Electronics, shocked South Korea by resigning after being indicted for tax evasion and breach of trust...
...Kun Hee, 66, stepped down after being indicted last week on charges of tax evasion and breach of fiduciary trust. Lee's son also resigned from his post at the company. "I have regrets," Lee said in a brief televised address broadcast on national TV. "But I think this is time for me to leave, taking all the mistakes of the past with me." Lee said he would "take full responsibility, both moral and legal...
...political figures. South Korea's cabinet gave the green light to the appointment of a special counsel to investigate charges that Samsung bribed public officials and provided questionable campaign financing during the 2002 presidential elections. The special counsel is also expected to investigate allegations that Samsung Group chairman Lee Kun Hee tried to transfer group ownership to his son, and gave Roh "congratulatory" money when he won the 2002 election. Samsung has denied all of the accusations...
...despite calls from the West for China to use economic leverage over Burma, it's not clear how much influence Beijing really has. "China will urge Myanmar to use peaceful means to solve the problem, [because] China would like to see a stable environment in Myanmar," says Zhai Kun, an expert on Southeast Asia at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations in Beijing. "But because Myanmar is a closed society, I don't think they listen to advice from the outside, including China...