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...These games will be highly stylized. You?re going to get packed houses, but packed with subdued crowds, just as they were in Nagano and Seoul. Asian crowds are just different?there?s not going to be the spontaneity that makes the Olympics special. And that?s a real problem, not only for the spectators but for the athletes as well...
...Jangs finally won their freedom after a tense three nights sleeping on the floor of a conference room in the Beijing office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. The Chinese government agreed to let them fly to Seoul, via Singapore and Manila. The timing likely worked in their favor?the International Olympic Committee will vote on July 13 on whether to award Beijing the honor of hosting the 2008 Summer Games, which means China's human rights record is under intense scrutiny. Eighteen months ago, Beijing was roundly criticized after it repatriated seven North Koreans who had been granted...
...Caprio and I've just made the movie Gangs of New York. I really hope you'll come and see me." If film promoter Kim Dong Joo can pull it off, hordes of Korean fans will receive this online missive just before the movie's Christmas-season release in Seoul. For girls who can't get enough of the Titanic heartthrob it's a "fantastic illusion," says Kim, who began his career at 20th Century Fox promoting Die Hard II the old way, via billboards and newspaper ads. "The Internet is the movie marketing tool of the future," he says...
...with her, and the police pressured her to leave town. She fled again to China. Last week, she learned from a television program that taxi drivers had been given a number to call police if they see "strangers." Fearful, she wants to try to make it to Seoul: "Staying here is very dangerous. I want to try one time even if I fail...
...first arrived a few years ago. Now, he is about to embark on a journey to South Korea with his future wife and says the perils are greater than ever. "We might be put in prison, we might be killed. If North Korea finds out you got to Seoul, they will find your relatives and kill them." The map is put away and another missionary leads the group in a brief prayer. One of the women preparing to leave is crying quietly. It is pouring outside, and soon the river will be rising. But the refugees won't stop coming...