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Last year Internet gaming company NCsoft found it had an embarrassing problem. The Seoul firm is the creator of Lineage, a medieval cyberworld in which players do battle with swords and shields, and use magical rings to change their identities. Players can swap weapons or buy and sell them using virtual assets. So popular is Lineage--and so competitive are its fans--that some players began buying and selling weapons with real money instead of virtual money. Identity rings were going for as much as $300 each. NCsoft didn't like that practice and barred two offenders from using...
Koreans from both the North and the South are now beginning to see each other as fellow brothers and sisters instead of enemies. In August, North Korea and South Korea each selected 100 individuals who were separated from their families by the Korean War for reunions in Seoul. I remember seeing video clips on the news at home and feeling the tears come out of my eyes as I listened to sounds of uncontrollable emotion. Young mothers who had been separated by their infant sons were now 80 year-old grandmothers, embracing middle-aged adults. A newly-wed couple that...
...early '70s that authoritarian leaders tried to have a truck kill him on the highway. When that attempt only injured Kim, Korean intelligence officers were sent to drown him at sea. With concrete blocks tied to his feet, he was moments from death when American officials in Seoul came to the rescue. His third encounter with death came in 1980, when a court ordered him to be hanged on charges of treason. International pressure again saved him, reducing his sentence to life in prison...
During last summer's Camp David peace talks, South Korean diplomats in Seoul grilled counterparts from the Middle East, calling for hourly updates, buttonholing them at embassy receptions. Why did Seoul monitor negotiations so closely? "They were afraid the talks would be successful," says a diplomat, "and KIM DAE JUNG would lose the Nobel." Many observers feel the unstated motivation driving President Kim's push for detente between the Koreas is an obsession with winning the Peace Prize, which will be announced Friday. Kim's resume has "Nobel" stamped all over it. He was jailed by military dictatorships, and assassins...
...springboard, old Xiong Ni kept hanging around, hanging around - fifth place, fourth, third - and then nailed his last dive and won again, just like in Atlanta. He's the Chinese guy Greg Louganis barely beat in Seoul, way back in '88, and now he's the only man beside Louganis to win back-to-back titles off the springboard. Good...