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...godfather of Chungchong pro-vince, south of Seoul, certainly loves his cutlery. Last Aug. 13, the day Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi stirred Korean anger over his country's wartime past by visiting Yasukuni Shrine?a notorious symbol of Japanese militarism?13 of Cho's men sent a message to Tokyo. Draped in Korean flags, they knelt on the ground in Independence Park in Seoul and each laid a pinkie finger on a flat, wooden scything board. As television cameras rolled, they lopped off the last joint, wrapped the bloody stubs in a Korean flag and headed off to present...
...DIED. KIM KI-CHANG, 86, one of South Korea's leading modernist painters; in Seoul. Kim expired two months after meeting with his younger brother, a celebrated artist in North Korea, for the first time in 50 years during the family reunions that followed the inter-Korean summit in June...
...churning out content to meet the billowing demand. Computer gaming has become a professional sport, with sponsorships, prize money and battles performed in public. "South Korea is a laboratory," says Daniel O'Neill, executive chairman of QoS Networks, a Dublin Internet company that plans to set up shop in Seoul next year. "You have a whole country that is a hotbed of Internet systems...
...police have set up a special squad to patrol cyberspace. In a society where smut isn't readily available, easy access to the Internet is exposing more kids to pornography, says Kim Yong Hak, a sociology professor at Yonsei University. In a survey of 10 elementary schools in Seoul, he found 10% of 11-year-olds had visited porn sites. With PCs in kids' bedrooms and PC rooms on every street corner, it isn't easy to turn back the tide. Says Kim: "With one key stroke, a child can switch from an educational site to a porn site...
Even if they don't look at the raunchy stuff, many kids may be spending too much time online. Song, 16, a 10th-grade high school student in Seoul, was bullied at school and took to the Internet for solace. But soon he found he couldn't turn it off. At times he would go 24 hours straight without sleeping or eating as he roamed the Web or networked with online pals. "It was so much fun," says Song, who asks that his full name not be disclosed. But one day, "I realized I was addicted." Last May his parents...