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...Akha village of Ban Lorcha, about an hour's drive away from Chiang Rai, is providing an interactive educational experience for visitors by becoming a living museum. "This project has been very valuable for our community," says Ban Lorcha Community Based Tourism Development Project director Songnam Ritwanna. "In the past, tourists just walked through the village, but no one could explain to them the culture, so they didn't learn anything. The villagers didn't get any money, so they saw no value in keeping their traditional ways." Today, entry fees of about a dollar per person have paid...
...Stands notes with pleasure that Pia Zadora is singing I Am What I Am at the Hotel Lotte, and that the Korean Film Week begins with such local classics as Surrogate Woman and Potatoes. But his biggest moment comes just sitting in the stands of Songnam stadium, far from the cameras and the crowds, in the balmy autumn sunshine. Most of the spectators in this rural place are locals, men with newspapers on their heads, women under parasols, large cheering sections of large women in largely billowing blue-and-yellow hambok who are singing mournful folk songs and donning...
...daughters. In Pusan, the country's second largest city and the scene of a demonstration involving 50,000 people, Presbyterian Minister Cho Chang Sop, 60, proudly reported that both of his college-age children had joined the protest. Said he: "Nowadays most of the parents support the kids." In Songnam, ten miles south of Seoul, a protest march led by a group of about 100 elderly people was joined by some 5,000 Koreans. "People are angry and disgusted," said a Seoul businessman. "They are willing to risk a bit more now than before...
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