Word: pusan
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...Asia these days, the U.S. needs all the help it can get. Bush will leave Japan for the annual APEC summit in Pusan, South Korea. There, though his hosts will doubtless make the ritual declarations about the solidity of their own alliance with the U.S., it is an open secret that Washington and the government of Roh Moo Hyun have differed on everything from the U.S. armed forces' mission in South Korea to the best way to nudge North Korea into a state of peaceful modernity. Sure, the six-party talks on the future of the peninsula achieved something...
...DIED. AHN SANG-YOUNG, 65, mayor of Pusan, South Korea's second-largest city, of apparent suicide, while being held in jail as he awaited the verdict in a corruption trial; in Pusan. Ahn, who was re-elected as mayor in 2002, was jailed in October on charges of taking $85,500 in bribes from a construction company and was under investigation for allegedly accepting $256,400 from a bus company...
...interview with TIME.) But ongoing, wide-ranging investigations by the Supreme Public Prosecutors' Office are coming disturbingly close to the President. According to a copy of an indictment obtained by Time, an influential businessman named Lee Young Roh visited a posh sashimi restaurant in the port city of Pusan on Dec. 19 (the day of the presidential elections). There, he allegedly held a secret dinner meeting with Sohn Gil Seung, CEO of the SK oil and telecom conglomerate. The businessman told the SK chief he should contribute nearly a million dollars to help repay Roh's presidential campaign debts, prosecutors...
...stay with Roh and support his request for a public vote of confidence. They see this as a good opportunity to set a precedent and exert the people's power to judge their leadership. The news media often make matters worse by exaggerating people's concerns. Kang Jeong Hwa Pusan, South Korea...
...decisions about casting and shooting schedules and was careful to assure his lay Tibetan actors that they wouldn't suffer karmic retribution if the script called for them to rough up a monk for making too much noise during France vs. Brazil. The Cup picked up awards at the Pusan, Munich and Toronto film festivals and, according to the New York Times, established Khyentse Norbu as "a born filmmaker...