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...Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office said it found no evidence that Lee, a former Seoul mayor and the presidential front-runner for the conservative Grand National Party (GNP), participated in alleged fraudulent financial practices including stock-price manipulation in partnership with Korean-American executive Kim Kyung Joon...
...unable to describe the sound. After a pause, he makes a chopping motion in the air with his hands while making a whirring noise. “That’s what’s it’s like,” he concludes confidently. Visiting from Korea, Kyung-Wa Park listens to Zhou as she waits for a friend. “His music is very comforting to me, because it’s from Asia. Even though it is Chinese, it still reminds me of Korean music. But, his skill is in a narrow range...
...national psyches. The idea that indigenous farmers must be defended is a powerful one, because it is linked to ideals such as national self-sufficiency in food production, and even national identity. Two years ago, at WTO talks held in Canc?n, Mexico, one of Yuk's neighbors, Lee Kyung Hae, died after stabbing himself in the heart to protest the loss of protection for South Korean farmers and the opening of the rice market. That level of passion isn't hard to understand. Chizuru Kamiki, director and food analyst at the Japan Food Culture and Environmental Research Institute in Kobe...
...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...
...treated—not to mention his prolificacy, as he nears his hundredth film—are simply extraordinary. The first American scholarly work on Korean film proposed as its title a simple apposition: Im Kwon Taek: the Making of a Korean National Cinema. Domestic ticket sales confirm what Kyung Hyun Kim, the UCLA professor who wrote the book in question, suggests: that the significance of Im’s work in South Korea is not to be underestimated...