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Shapiro may be exaggerating the public's docuphobia. Consider how quickly the home audience tired of sitcom verities and embraced the supposedly factual dramas laid out in Survivor and its spawn. If reality TV can take over, why not reality Moo...
Sounds ambitious, but the website is already extremely influential at home. After two schoolgirls were crushed to death in 2002 by a U.S. military vehicle, OhmyNews provided blanket coverage, triggering widespread demonstrations against the U.S. troop presence. As South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun rode the surge of anti-U.S. sentiment to victory in the 2002 election, OhmyNews portrayed him as the voice of the younger generation. Roh gave his first exclusive interview as President to the online upstart...
...more nationalistic generation of South Koreans who are frustrated with America's dominant role in the fate of the peninsula. Younger citizens want their leaders to carve out a new, more independent position?one that envisions the eventual, peaceful reunification of the two countries. South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun, elected in 2002 thanks to strong support from younger voters, said in a speech in Los Angeles last year that he could understand why North Korea might feel it needs nuclear weapons as "a deterrant for defending itself from external agression." (Roh still insists that the long-standing alliance between...
...North Asia, it was supposed to be the year of living harmoniously. In January, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun rang in the Korea-Japan Friendship Year in Seoul by announcing, "Let's be friends happily and head toward the future." This sunny message was an echo of the event's catchy theme song, Dance with Me, performed by Korean singer Lena Park and a Japanese band called Chemistry. China also picked up on the good vibes and was making efforts to put aside its long-standing antipathy toward Japan: a group of women climbers from Japan and China arranged...
...North's recent announcement does put South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun's government in a bind. Seoul is deeply committed to its policy of economic engagement with Pyongyang. Since October 2002, it has transferred at least $900 million in cash, products and services to the North, according to government figures and Hyundai Asan, a company involved in joint North-South industrial projects. This year's transfers?if a planned donation of 500,000 tons of fertilizer goes ahead?will likely be at least $350 million. The new Kaesong industrial park, just north of the Demilitarized Zone, is the most...