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Since the start of the hostage crisis last week, when 23 Korean Christian volunteers were captured by Taliban insurgents on a road south of Kabul, the Seoul government has had to ask Korean bloggers to back off from online attacks on the hostages. Critics were particularly incensed by photos posted of some of the young women missionaries posing in front of an Afghanistan travel advisory sign at Seoul's Incheon International Airport. Family members of the missionaries - as well as members of the Sammeul Community Church south of Seoul, which sent the mission - also issued public apologies for causing...
...woes are especially galling because when he became Prime Minister last September, it seemed he could do no wrong. Although known as a staunch nationalist, his first act was to visit Beijing and Seoul, patching up strained relations with Japan's key trading partners. But foreign-policy coups were soon overshadowed by a perception that Abe's domestic agenda was lacking. While he spoke of boosting Japan's role abroad and revising the country's pacifist constitution, the public was focused on bread-and-butter economic issues. "When Abe talks about the constitution, people think, 'What about my salary?'" says...
...years ago a financial typhoon known as the Asian Crisis smashed into Bangkok. Over the next 15 months it swept through Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Seoul. Tens of thousands of people lost their jobs. Others paid a higher price. Hundreds of Indonesian Chinese, accused by rioters of being accomplices to a corrupt regime, lost their lives or were raped in the violence that accompanied the ouster of Indonesia's long-serving autocrat Suharto. Abandoned half-built buildings throughout Asian cities stood as mute reminders not only of the shattered hopes of many an empire builder but also those...
...ordered my bodyguards to take over because I got tired of beating them myself.' KIM SEUNG YOUN, one of South Korea's wealthiest businessmen, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for abducting and assaulting Seoul karaoke-bar workers who had fought with his son, a student at Yale...
...SEUNG-YOUN, one of South Korea's wealthiest businessmen, who was sentenced to 11/2 years in prison for abducting and assaulting Seoul karaoke-bar workers who had fought with his son, a student at Yale...