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After his first year, Mok decided not to return to Michigan in the fall. Instead, he went to Seoul, South Korea, where his parents had moved when he was a student at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass...
...While in Seoul, Mok took classes and worked teaching an SAT prep course. During his nine months there, he decided to focus more on his studies, he says...
...SEOUL: For the first time, North Korea told the world just how hungry its people are, and asked for help. North's Korean Central News Agency quoted an official as admitting that because of devastating floods, the country harvested only 2.5 million tons of grain last year, barely half the grain it needs to feed its population. The plea comes as the U.N. World Food Program is preparing its third appeal in a year for the country?s aid. U.N. officials called North Korea a nation "in the throes of a life-threatening food shortage," noting that its current state...
...SEOUL: After three weeks of strikes, rallies and protests that have crippled South Korea's economy, opposition members will get another shot at a labor law highly favorable to employers that passed Parliament in their absence. In a meeting with opposition leaders, President Kim Young-Sam offered the two sides the opportunity to reach a compromise of their own. The law, passed December 26, gives employers more freedom to lay off employees, adjust their hours and hire replacements for strikers, while delaying for up to five years the right to form multiple unions, making the confederations illegal. Leaders of those...
...SEOUL: South Korea's ruling party, vilified for stealthily passing a controversial labor law that threatens workers' job security, offered up an apology Thursday for the nature of its passage -- but not for its content. Angry union leaders were not buying. "It is not even worth consideration at all," said Kwon Young-gil, head of an illegal labor federation spearheading the strikes. The conflict continues to heat up. Twice in the past five days, protesting strikers have clashed with police, hurling chunks of cement and brandishing pipes as riot squads lobbed canisters of tear gas. Prosecutors hinted Wednesday that they...