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Nonetheless, Summers continued to draw criticism from leaders like South Korean Health and Welfare Minister Kim Keun-tae who two days later demanded an apology...
...Korean women have been portrayed generally as submissive, but that's simply not true," she says. Her opening scene in Sassy buries that possibility: she wobbled drunk onto a subway train, vomited on a stranger's toupee and passed out in the arms of a scandalized young man (Cha Tae Hyun). Jun's bossy character quickly took control of her timid boyfriend's life. Through it all, Jun was in charge, and audiences loved it. Wild, free and utterly herself, Jun became a model for an assertive generation of young Asian women. "People have this notion that men have...
...DIED. PARK TAE-YOUNG, 63, governor of South Korea's South Cholla province, of injuries sustained from jumping off a bridge into the Han River; in Seoul. Park was under investigation by the Seoul District Public Prosecutor's Office for suspected corruption while he was president of the National Health Insurance Corp. His is the fourth apparent suicide in the past year of a Korean business or political leader suspected of graft or bribery...
...plan to send 3,000 troops to Iraq by the end of June could also be in jeopardy. Officially, the Uri Party supported Roh's decision to send Korean troops. But the deployment could now come up for debate again. The Uri Party's parliamentary leader Kim Keun Tae says: "We have to examine carefully whether our decision to send troops to Iraq can serve its initial purpose of preserving peace and reconstructing Iraq." Emboldened by their electoral triumph, the younger generation that has rescued Roh and the Uri Party will now expect to be heard?whether on Iraq...
...changed with the '97 crisis, which caused the breakup of Hyundai Group and others and fostered an anti-chaebol backlash. Business life today in South Korea is marked by a steady stream of special investigations into chaebol-related bribery, stock manipulation, illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and fraud. Chey Tae Won, nephew of the founder of SK Group, was jailed last year for accounting and stock fraud. Chung Mong Hun, the favorite son of Hyundai's founder, killed himself last year after being accused of illegally passing money to North Korean dictator Kim Jong...