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...organization that prides itself on showcasing agility and swiftness, but as its president once again demonstrated on Wednesday, the International Olympic Committee is an organization that values inertia above all. Addressing a committee gathering in Seoul, South Korea, Juan Antonio Samaranch firmly announced he would stay at the helm of the scandal-plagued organization at least until his term expires in 2001 and declared: "We say no to hasty reforms to please our critics." Samaranch said the IOC had already carried out many of its promises, including a housecleaning of 10 members accused of accepting improper inducements from Salt Lake...
...Diving-board mishap draws blood but doesn't keep Greg Louganis from winning gold at Seoul...
...policies are pushing up unemployment, at least for the short term. The government prediction of 9% unemployment this year is stunning in a country used to levels closer to 2%. Kim Jung Mi, 30, was fired without notice last June from her sales job at a small Seoul bookstore. In a country where women occupy few positions in the top levels of business, they are often the first to get the ax when restructuring starts. As a never married mother, Kim had a tough life; her conservative family shunned her when she decided to keep her child seven years...
...crisis has brought anguish for countless others as well. Suicide, alcoholism, divorce and crime have jumped nationwide in the past year. Shelters for out-of-work businessmen have sprouted in Seoul and other cities. In a country in which corporations traditionally provided the welfare system, the government is trying to build a social safety net from scratch. This year spending on job training and support for the unemployed is expected to rise 39.8% and 34.8%, to $1 billion and $5 billion, respectively. But it is not clear how long the government can contain the resentment of those...
...drop in status, the teenager reminded his mother of a story she told him as a child about how the local cleaning man was not born a cleaning man but was just playing the hand fate had dealt him. The Chungs' daughter, 20, a sophomore attending Yonsei University in Seoul, comes by to help her mother dish out bowls of steaming white rice to go with the hot pots. "My daughter said what we're doing is admirable," Mrs. Chung recalls. "We both cried when our children told us how proud they were." As the Chungs are discovering, the pioneer...