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...Ordinary workers, too, appear to be getting used to the idea of GM being around. "Initially everyone wanted Daewoo to revive itself," says Kang Kyung Soo, a member of the Daewoo worker-safety team and a 13-year veteran. "But now since it is inevitable that GM is taking over, the consensus among the workers is: we hope GM will make things better." Some union members even confess they find Zahner much more open than the usual authoritarian Korean managers, and that the workers are becoming more and more pro-GM. Kang, the secretary-general, says he has a "good...
...Diversification is also helping to create new jobs outside Korea's traditional mainstay employers, the conglomerates, which have been forced to shed staff to stay competitive. Shim Kyung Joo was working at giant Sunkyung Chemicals' game division when the Asian crisis hit. The financially strapped chaebol had to trim its business empire, so Shim secured some venture capital from the government and turned his division into a software company called Wizard Soft. Freed from the dead hands of chaebol executives, Shim and his young gamemakers were soon spinning off hit products like Jurassic Era Primitive War II. The company...
...while Yang Yang (A) proved to be all Yin and never threatened. Instead, the race was won by the only athletes so far to truly claim an event for Asia, Koreans Ko Gi-Hyun, who took gold and at 15 became the youngest ever winner, and Choi Eun-Kyung, who smashed the Olympic record by six seconds in the semis. "Olympic athletes used to be role models," seethes Yosuke Yamaguchi, a former physical education instructor in Tokyo. "Now they're part athletes, part comedians...
Olympic archery gold medalist Kim Kyung Wook knows how demanding her sport can be. But nothing had prepared her for a training session this summer, which had little to do with bows and arrows. In August, coaches forced the nation's top male and female archers to attend a four-day Navy commando training camp at a military base in southwest Korea. Kim easily dealt with hiking along an open sewage ditch, sprinting with a car tire strapped to her back, floating for half an hour in frigid ocean waters and rolling commando-style in mud. But when coaches blindfolded...
...hubris may have been necessary when he was leading a band of trusted followers trying to outwit a military regime that wanted him dead. But it isn't helping him to line up support for his policies, says Lim Sung Ho, an expert on legislative politics at Seoul's Kyung Hee University. "Kim has a knack for fighting," says Lim. "But fighting is different from leading." The leadership deficit has been most apparent in dealing with North Korea. With the South Korean economy cratering, the flow of money and aid to a seemingly ungrateful North has irritated many citizens...