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...SEOUL, South Korea — Last week, my fellow intern and I attempted to treat our colleague to a nice meal—instead, he paid for our steak lunches.. It was a comical situation; in our effort to thank this man for setting up our internships, we ended up setting him back nearly $100. Not only that, we inadvertently slighted him by attempting to treat him in the first place. In Korean business culture, when an intern pays for a senior, more established employee’s meal, it becomes a loss of face for the latter...
...this age bias. I’ve only once paid for lunch at work (and that was when I went out with my young, hipster coworker), because I’m the youngest person in the company. When a seat opens up during rush hour on the Seoul Metro, the older men in suits stand by, and I only have to fight with the other young women in the car for it. When I go out with my Korean friends, the older ones take the lead and organize things while the rest of us sit back and relax...
...gets what it wants. The message appeared to mean that the North wants to sit down face to face with the U.S. During the Bush years, Washington never agreed to a formal bilateral dialogue. But the North has always wanted to sideline the South Korean government in Seoul, with whom it has never signed a peace treaty, as well as the Japanese government, which regime founder Kim Il Sung fought to dislodge as occupier of the Korean peninsula. (See pictures of the rise of Kim Jong...
...Taiwan's ETTV news network, asked me during a June visit to Taipei. The term Chaiwan, she said, was the talk of Taipei. Turns out that the word, meant to connote the growing economic ties between China and Taiwan, was supposedly coined by the South Korean press. The Seoul Economic Daily, a Korean business newspaper, recently ran a series of articles under the banner: "The Chaiwan Storm Is Coming." One noted that "the combination of China's capital and Taiwan's high technology ... warns us of a powerful fusion of forces that cannot but present a threat to Korean industries...
...with reporting by Jiyeon Lee / Seoul and Natalie Tso / Taipei...