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...step toward a victory against a series of alleged crimes by American servicemen and their relatives over the past 40 years - and the law that they say goes easy on them. "We've seen in this case that SOFA's protection range is too broad," says Park Kyung Soo, an activist at the National Campaign for the Eradication of Crimes by U.S. Troops in Korea, a nonprofit organization in Seoul. "It restricts the right to continuous detention before prosecution, and whenever people protected by SOFA go to court, an American representative has to accompany them." In the Burger King homicide...
...When you came to direct films in the U.S., what was the biggest culture clash that you experienced? In Kyung Yoo,Rancho Palos Verdes, Ca. I tried to make Hard Target look like a Hong Kong movie, but it didn't work. When there were slow-motion shots, [the audience] didn't know how to react, so they just laughed...
...that Japan, another country with many historical wooden structures, has numerous measures in place to protect its national treasures, including sophisticated sprinkler systems. But money is an issue: Korea's preservation efforts are underfunded and "not enough attended to," says David Mason, a professor of Korean Tourism at Kyung Hee University. And low overall rates of vandalism in Korea could contribute to a sense of complacency over protecting its cultural sites. "Teenagers aren't brought up to see vandalism as cool form of self expression," Mason says, "and adults would never damage their ancestors' legacy without cause...
...study’s lead authors are Mikyung Kim of Dana-Farber, Zhen-Yu Sun of the Medical School, and Kyung Joon Oh of Dana-Farber and the Medical School. The co-authors are Jessica Yu and Vladimir Brusic of Dana-Farber; Likai Song, Zhisong Qiao, and Jia-huai Wang, of Dana-Farber and the Medical School; and Gerhard Wagner, of the Medical School...
...into allegations of fraud against presidential front-runner Lee Myung Bak. The Assembly greenlighted the probe after a video surfaced over the weekend of a lecture Lee gave in 2000, in which he claimed that he set up Korean investment firm BBK, a connection he had previously denied. Kim Kyung Joon, the head of the company and Lee's business partner in a previous venture, was indicted on Dec. 5 on charges of rigging share prices and embezzling tens of millions of dollars from the company, although Seoul prosecutors announced last week that they could find no evidence...