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...with North Korea and its nukes. One of the most troublesome U.S. allies is South Korea, which is in the midst of a kiss-and-make-up lovefest with its brothers to the North. A few weeks ago, Hill had a testy exchange with South Korean journalists over why Seoul's blame-America-first media don't write more about the heinous human-rights abuses in the socialist paradise next door. It's a good question. One answer, no doubt, is the distrust of America fomented by Guant?namo...
...pulled off a trick that has proved elusive for many other online media outlets: turned a profit. OhmyNews says it made about $400,000 last year, more than two-thirds from advertising. Mainstream media will be watching closely-as will big conglomerates with anything to hide. -By Donald Macintyre/ Seoul. With reporting by Yooseung Kim/Seoul
...expected to begin airing by early July and will be the first to feature a North Korean who is not a defector. The famed beauty already has an online fan club in South Korea with more than 16,000 members; admirers set up the site after she performed in Seoul at an inter-Korean reconciliation event in 2002. Cheil says Cho will be paid an amount similar to what South Korean entertainers get for TV spots. Industry insiders estimate that could be as much as $200,000--or roughly 14,000 times what the average North Korean earns...
Hwang was born just after the Korean War and grew up in a poor rural village in Chungcheong province, three hours from Seoul. "It was difficult to survive," he says. His father died when he was 5, and his mother raised six children by helping wealthier neighbors take care of their cows. After school, Hwang would look after the three cows assigned to his family. He decided then that he wanted to study the animals when he grew...
...wants to work with the South Koreans on Lou Gehrig's disease. Similar collaborations are under way at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Md. By the end of last week, however, Hwang was back at his lab in Seoul, putting even more distance between himself and the rest of the scientific world...