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Darren was the first blockmate to leave for mission, taking off just weeks after moving out of the Yard. He worked in Seoul, South Korea, teaching English and taking a break from his college persona as an electrical engineering concentrator...
They also occasionally parlay success in the sports world into much bigger things (witness NBC head honcho Jeff Zucker ’86, who is also a Crimson editor, who has won five Emmys since taking a sports researching job with NBC during the 1988 Seoul Olympics...
...back the eyeballs of a younger generation of gadget-oriented entertainment buffs who are spending more time with the Web, mobiles and MP3 players than they are in front of a living-room set. The O2 trial is one of dozens around the world, from Helsinki to Pittsburgh to Seoul, to test the feasibility of broadcasting TV programs to mobile phones. Lots of companies would like to see the trials succeed. Handset firms like Nokia stand to sell more - and more expensive - gadgets, after seeing sales of more ordinary phones slow recently; broadcasters could enjoy a spike in viewers...
...many, that slump is already here. Jung Jun Ki, 65, owns a factory south of Seoul that makes plastic containers such as lunch boxes and trash cans, which are produced using oil-derived polypropylene. Jung, whose factory employs about 50 people, says as many as 40% of Korea's small and mid-sized plastics manufacturers have gone out of business in the past 18 months because, in a highly competitive industry, they've been unable to raise prices to compensate for higher production costs?the price of polypropylene has soared from $800 per ton last year...
...Diplomacy, to be sure, will still figure prominently in reducing the North Korean nuclear threat. But the emphasis will have to be on mending the relationship with Seoul and establishing better rapport with Beijing, North Korea's two main financial backers. The North should be penalized, not rewarded, for its campaign of international nuclear menace. The country is highly vulnerable to economic pressure, and a coordinated strategy could expose its weak points. Would such a strategy be risky? No doubt. But could it really be riskier than a new round of talks...