Word: pusan
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...agenda: everything from reunions of separated families to rebuilding a railway across the heavily mined dmz dividing North and South. In a surprise move, Pyongyang has already agreed to send athletes to the Pusan Asian Games next month, the first time North Koreans will take part in an international sporting event in the South. Japanese officials head to Pyongyang next week for talks that will include the awkward issue of Japanese nationals allegedly abducted in the 1970s and '80s?Japan wants them back before the two countries can normalize relations. Meanwhile, North Korean Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun met with...
...fertilizer it cannot produce itself. Cutting off subsidies to deadbeat factories is just a first step, and there is no evidence the government has a blueprint for moving further. "They aren't scrapping the socialist system," says Koh Hyun Wook, an expert on North Korea at Kyungnam University near Pusan. "These are makeshift moves to overcome the current economic crisis...
...magazines such as Japan's popular weekly Aera. Foreign production houses are signing co-financing deals with Korean partners. Overseas sales, while still small, have tripled in the past three years to more than $7 million. Even Hollywood is paying attention: studio execs might still have trouble finding Pusan on a map, but distributors like Miramax call Korea regularly now to find out what's coming down the pipeline. Korea doesn't yet have a John Woo or a Chow Yun-fat who can make the crossover to the Hollywood big leagues, but its industry is getting noticed. "These...
...Then came Friends, an even more phenomenal success. Set in Pusan, the film, released in March, tapped a deep vein of nostalgia in South Korea, where a shaky economy and the go-go pace of life in the Internet fast lane have left many pining for simpler times. Koreans now routinely repeat the movie's best lines, using the rough accents of Pusan gangsters. Comic-strip versions circulate on the Internet, and tourists now make pilgrimages to Pusan. The movie has been particularly popular with men in their late 30s and 40s, who went to school when the Prussian-style...
...build up credit as an actor, he works hard and shuns the party scene. For Friends, he spent four months in Pusan learning the rough local accent. Before each shoot, he smoked heavily (even more than his usual two to three packs a day) and avoided water?to give his voice a raspy edge. When he's not filming, he spends time at his parents' or goes out with friends. "I prefer to live a quiet life," he says. If only those women would let him eat his noodles in peace...