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...While North Korea may be moving to ratchet up the crisis, not even Washington's hawks are pushing for a military response - at least not yet. Its conventional artillery capability would allow North Korea to flatten Seoul in the first half-hour of any confrontation. The human cost of going to war may too prohibitive in this instance. Instead, the hawks want to isolate North Korea and force its collapse through sanctions. So moribund and dependent is the North Korean economy that sanctions would indeed spark social collapse, which is why Pyongyang has warned it will treat any embargo...
...born in Korea and attended college in Seoul, accompanied Chung to Los Angeles for the shoot. He plays a student taking a class and conversing with professors and colleagues. “It almost does an accurate job,” says Lee confidently, though he warns that the ad exaggerates some parts of Harvard classroom life. Factual or not, the ad speaks to Harvard’s cultural currency in Korea as the ultimate reward for successfully learning English. Harvard is depicted as a serene university on a hill, at which students interact with their professors as peers...
That community provides both demand and enhanced funding power. Ten years ago, when the museum was in difficult straits, Chong-Moon Lee, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur born in Seoul, was invited to lunch by South Korea's consul general in San Francisco, who told him the museum desperately needed $1 million to stay afloat. "The consul general was crying," Lee recalls. "Then I started crying. I was so emotional, I wrote him a $1 million check on the spot." Two years later, when the museum set out to raise money for its new, $160 million home, it began with...
...CONFIRMED. GOH KUN, 65, veteran politician and former mayor of Seoul whose anticorruption image earned him the nickname "Mr. Clean"; as Prime Minister; in Seoul. Over the past four decades, Goh has served almost every administration and held various posts, including Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister...
...played with the New York Philharmonic, the Buffalo, Los Angeles and Seoul Philharmonics, the National Symphony, the Atlanta, Houston, St. Louis, and Pacific Symphonies, among various others in the U.S. and abroad. He was recently honored with the Avery Fisher Career Grant, and currently records for the Jonathan Digital label...