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...KOREA: Muju, with its 30 runs, is three hours south of Seoul and hopes to host the 2014 Winter Olympics...
...Korean embassy in Beijing, they were told the Ministry of Defense couldn't find Jeon's name on its POW list. Jeon was arrested by the Chinese and nearly sent back to North Korea. South Korean activists played a taped plea by Lee on an evening news program, and Seoul intervened with Beijing. Jeon finally got home to South Korea last Christmas Eve. But while he was held in a Chinese jail, his son was arrested and shipped back to North Korea and his daughter-in-law and her mother disappeared, possibly seized by traffickers...
...very least, that China suspected this type of influenza might be afflicting its poultry but did not yet have the means to test. Both Japan and Taiwan have intercepted shipments of tainted duck meat from the mainland in the past year. Kim Sun Jwong, an avian-diseases expert at Seoul National University, believes the Middle Kingdom is the most likely provenance of Korea's H5N1 outbreak. And live chickens are also frequently traded along China's border with Vietnam. If China is seeding these outbreaks, then greater cooperation from mainland officials is essential to plugging the microbial...
...When Roh Moo Hyun was vying for the presidency in late 2002, he realized he needed the swing voters of North and South Chungcheong provinces. So he promised to move the country's capital there, some 150 km south of Seoul. At the time, opponents ridiculed him for shameless pork barreling. But Roh won the office, and his shrewdness has proved contagious. With legislative elections coming up in April, lots of lawmakers want to appeal to Chungcheong voters. Shortly after Christmas, the South Korean legislature, with only a handful of dissenters, passed a law stating that the capital would...
...plan has produced plenty of nonelected critics, especially when Roh's initial $5 billion estimate for the move jumped to $38.6 billion in December. They say the relocation of 500,000 people won't unclog Seoul. Landowners in Chungcheong aren't complaining: property prices in Daejon rose faster than any other city's in the first nine months of last year. "It'll be like our version of Washington, D.C.," enthuses Lee Jae Sun, an opposition lawmaker who represents Daejon. What no one denies is that the plan, which still faces major hurdles such as an intended campaign to oppose...