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...millions of advertising dollars. As an added bonus, viewers tend to go on watching the network's shows for months after the competition ends. Last week the International Olympic Committee announced that NBC had won the rights to the 1988 Games in South Korea by agreeing to pay the Seoul Olympic Committee at least $300 million. If the Games generate enough ad revenues, the network could pay as much as $500 million...
years this place will be like Seoul." That is precisely what Deng's opponents--and perhaps Deng himself--fear. As China dresses up, it has also begun to pursue new goals. Under Mao, the people were told that their lives would be enriched if they dedicated themselves to work. Now they are being exhorted to work in order to get rich. "Our government promotes the policy that some will get rich first," says Du Runsheng, the top party adviser on rural affairs. "Then others will get rich. Our final goal is that all people will be rich." The words kuaile...
Xiao, who was taken to the hospital with injuries to his spinal cord and intestines, said he wanted to go to Taiwan. Earlier this year a Chinese torpedo boat and its crew, who had mutinied and tried to defect to South Korea, were sent home by the Seoul government. But this time South Korea has announced that only the navigator will be repatriated to China. Xiao will presumably be allowed to go to Taiwan...
...blind faith in academic achievement stems from the normal yearning of all immigrants to bootstrap their families into the comforts of middle-class American life. But it also bespeaks a deeper ethic permeating many Asian societies. Says Yong-Il Yi, 55, a New York City real estate broker from Seoul: "In Asia, if you don't have a higher education, you are a second-class citizen...
...There was a statue of Buddha seated before a closed-circuit TV camera and, below that, a small receiver. Gallerygoers could watch an icon contemplate its own image. If Paik's art seems serendipitous, so does his journey to the U.S. His periodically prosperous family was driven out of Seoul in 1950 by the ravages of the Korean War. His father resettled first in Hong Kong and then Tokyo, where Paik earned a university degree with a major in philosophy. At that point, infatuated with the music of Arnold Schoenberg and Western avant-gardism in general, the young graduate might...