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...Hallyu” or the “Korean wave” of pop culture in East Asia. The panel offered cross-disciplinary perspectives on the Hallyu phenomenon. The standing room only event featured Korean song writer and music manager Jin-Young Park and actress and television personality Jung-Sook Park—both famous in their fields. Several members of the panel said the flood of movies, music, and television programs is an important force in breaking down national barriers in East Asia. Jung-Sook Park described Hallyu as an “organic power,” with...
...Shortbus could be called the first middle-class porno movie, but that description wouldn't be fair to this engaging study of love and lust from John Cameron Mitchell, star and author of the off-Broadway hit Hedwig and the Angry Inch. At the film's center is Sofia (Sook-Yin Lee), a sex therapist who gets no kick from sex. She and her friends illustrate, amusingly and quite graphically, the way the artist class of post-9/11 urbanites gropes toward intimacy. Not weird enough for you? O.K., it's also a musical...
...Harbour, floating just a few hundred meters from the convention center where the talks were being held. It was a peculiar act of protest, but it was brave-the polluted waters of the harbor haven't been safe for swimming in years. "I cannot swim," pear farmer Han Do Sook said later, struggling to explain the politics of his perilous plunge. "But right now, I feel as if the WTO is trying to make me swim without a life vest." A squadron of Koreans did make a break for the convention center later, but were repelled by riot police wielding...
...RESIGNED. LEE HUN JAI, 60, South Korean Finance and Economic Minister; after legislators called for his ouster over suspect real estate transactions; in Seoul. Revelations emerged in January that Lee's wife, Jin Jin Sook, may have flouted residency laws with a 1979 purchase of land in Kwangju, south of Seoul, which she later sold for a profit of $4.6 million. Lee denied any improprieties, but said he would step down because the controversy "could burden the President and be of no help to the economy...
...think they [North Koreans] are mentally preparing if not prepared for the eventuality of surgical strikes at least,” said Dae Sook Suh, a professor at the University of Hawaii, mentioning that he worried that Japan might develop nuclear weapons in response to North Korea, starting an arms race...