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...first half of 2007. Hyundai Asan, the South Korean conglomerate that manages the two projects and has invested nearly $1 billion in them, is convinced that North Korea is ready to embrace capitalism. "The North Koreans are really studying the market-oriented system," says Jang Whan Bin, Hyundai Asan's senior vice president of international business and investor relations. Such optimism is essential for South Koreans, for whom investment in the North is less an overture for integration than a hedge against their neighbor's collapse. Better, perhaps, to nudge the D.P.R.K. toward prosperity now than to inherit a ruined...
...APPOINTED. CHANG DAE-WHAN, 50, as Prime Minister of South Korea after being chosen by President Kim Dae Jung; in Seoul. Chang is the president and publisher of the Maeil Business newspaper, the country's largest economics daily, and was tapped for the largely ceremonial role after Kim's original choice was vetoed earlier this month. Chang now faces confirmation hearings in an opposition-controlled parliament...
...parties (similar to the Republican party's near ownership of the Southern states). Kim addressed regional discrimination by appointing members from other parties (and thus, regions) to high-ranking positions on his cabinet. To further national reconciliation, Kim pardoned over one million political prisoners, including former President Chun Doo Whan, who had ordered the attempts on Kim's life...
...Whan that April with her shoures sote...
...ceremony at 17 Quincy St., Son Chu-Whan, the president of the Korea Foundation, presented President Neil L. Rudenstine with part of the funds, according to a press release...