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Harvard Summer School is getting a little Seoul. The University will launch its first summer study abroad program in South Korea this year, bringing American, Korean, and other international students to Ewha Womans University in Seoul for a five-week study of Korean history, politics, and culture. Designed to foster cultural and academic exchange among students and faculty, the program features courses on Korean literature, art history, post-World War II politics, and gender relations. “This will be a fascinating new way to understand Korean culture,” wrote Professor Eun Mee Kim, dean of international...
...poll taken before Korea was a co-host of the 2002 football World Cup, Ohno topped Osama bin Laden as the person Koreans least wanted to attend. Neither showed. For nearly four years, it wasn't safe for Ohno to skate in Korea, but in October he arrived in Seoul for a short-track World Cup event. At the airport he was greeted by 100 police in riot gear (for his protection), and at the rink he was disqualified for pushing, delighting the packed house. Otherwise, things couldn't have gone more smoothly. "No death threats while...
VICTORIA KIM ’07 of Seoul, South Korea and Winthrop House Senior Editor...
...nearly four years, it wasn't safe for Ohno to skate in Korea, but in October he arrived in Seoul for a short-track World Cup event. At the airport he was greeted by 100 police in riot gear (for his protection), and at the rink he was disqualified for pushing, delighting the packed house. Otherwise, things couldn't have gone more smoothly. "No death threats while I was in Korea nor leading up to the competition," says Ohno. "Actually, a very high-ranking Korean speed-skating official was telling me that I may have sparked a fan club...
...Korean government does not agree with some in the United States who appear to want to take issue with North Korea's regime, apply pressure, and who occasionally wish for its collapse." ROH MOO HYUN, President of South Korea, expressing concern over Washington's confrontational policy towards North Korea; Seoul favors rapprochement with its neighbor...