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...MARIANNE PEARL,the widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, a baby boy; in Paris. Pearl was killed more than four months ago by Islamic militants while reporting in Pakistan. ARRESTED. LEE HONG SEOK, 54, Korea's assistant minister of culture and tourism, on bribery charges; in Seoul. Lee is accused of having received $13,800 from sports-lottery operator Tiger Pools International to secure a license in 2001. He is the first government official to be arrested in the scandal that has also implicated the youngest son of President Kim Dae Jung. AWARDED.To GEOFF NYAROTA, 50, editor...
...Plumbing the Korean soul wasn't an early ambition. Im was forced to drop out of middle school by his father's death and found work as a production assistant in Seoul. Five years later, he made his first feature. His aspiration was to make Hollywood-style action flicks. But in poor South Korea in the 1960s, Im had to settle with small, low-budget historical tales. He concedes that as an artist, those restrictions turned out to be fortuitous. "You can only make good movies if you film what you know," he says. "Every one of my bones...
...Ablaye Thiam donned his giant jester's hat, balanced a two-foot wide drum on his hip and came looking for a party. He found a doozy on Friday night in Seoul, where in the first game of this year's footy fiesta, tiny Senegal toppled reigning World Cup champs France 1-0. "Today a black African nation has beat a white European champion," said Thiam, who traveled from Senegalese capital Dakar to cheer on the Lions. "There is a god, and I love...
...term to which a lame duck is entitled. Kim's youngest son, high-living L.A. resident Kim Hong Gul, faces charges that he took at least $1.2 million in bribes from local businessmen to facilitate deals. He apologized to his parents and the nation last week, before surrendering to Seoul prosecutors. Meanwhile, the President's second son, Kim Hong Up, is suspected of laundering some $792,000 through the Kim Dae Jung Peace Foundation. Even son No. 1, Kim Hong Il, has been the subject of influence-peddling scandals (he's never been charged). For a leader who promised...
...never returned. But the more than 2,200 men and women who went north and came back physically unscathed, like Kim Su Chan, got nothing. When he returned from a mission to gather intelligence in 1961, he expected to collect the money his recruiters had promised him. Instead, Seoul accused him of working for the North Koreans. They let him go but kept him under surveillance, and he couldn't get a job because the police interrogated anybody who hired him. He eventually retreated to the mountains south of Seoul, surviving by cultivating and selling trees and flowers. "I told...