Word: shim
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...took roll call in the Cabot blocking group of Christopher Shim ’02-’03, it would go like this: Choi, Chung, Hur, Kim, Kim, Kim, Kwak, Kwok, Lee, Lim, Myung, Shim, Zymaris. A string of mostly Korean names. Being Korean is a part of the members’ identities, Shim says, but far from the only part. “People don’t believe me when I say we really didn’t plan it to be like this,” Shim says. “At the first blocking meeting...
...Shim spent his first year at Harvard rooming with Lionel L. Lynch ’02 and Emilio J. Travieso ’02. The three remain friends, but “we call ourselves the great social experiment,” Shim says. “We all got along but I guess we didn’t make as much of an effort to block together. We didn’t really hang out socially,” he says, sounding a little wistful...
...Diversification is also helping to create new jobs outside Korea's traditional mainstay employers, the conglomerates, which have been forced to shed staff to stay competitive. Shim Kyung Joo was working at giant Sunkyung Chemicals' game division when the Asian crisis hit. The financially strapped chaebol had to trim its business empire, so Shim secured some venture capital from the government and turned his division into a software company called Wizard Soft. Freed from the dead hands of chaebol executives, Shim and his young gamemakers were soon spinning off hit products like Jurassic Era Primitive War II. The company...
...remarkably, Korean cinema is starting to generate buzz?and revenue?overseas. Korean films are attracting growing audiences in cinema-savvy Japan and Hong Kong, as well as in smaller niche markets like Vietnam, where Korean stars are so popular they set fashion trends. Actresses like Lee Yeong Ae and Shim Eun Ha are showing up on the covers of magazines such as Japan's popular weekly Aera. Foreign production houses are signing co-financing deals with Korean partners. Overseas sales, while still small, have tripled in the past three years to more than $7 million. Even Hollywood is paying attention...