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SEOUL, South Korea--President Roh Tae-woo this morning called for an end to Cold War on the Korean peninsula and proposed unrestricted travel between communist North Korea and South Korea...
While the recruiters are trying to woo young workers, a generation is out planning its escape from the 9-to-5 routine. Travel is always an easy way out, one that comes cloaked in a mantle of respectability: cultural enrichment. In the TIME/CNN poll, 60% of the people surveyed said they plan to travel a lot while they are young. And it's not just rich students who are doing it. "Travel is an obsession for everyone," says Cheryl Wilson, 21, a University of Pennsylvania graduate who has visited Denmark and Hungary. "The idea of going away, being mobile...
...Times Mirror study notes that the young audience has "buoyed the popularity of the new, lighter media forms," such as People magazine and TV's A Current Affair. The survey may give news executives a further excuse to soften and glitz up their products to try to woo the young. But that means walking a tricky tightrope: in trying to make the news more appetizing, they risk turning it into something other than the news...
...strong hint of change came three weeks ago, when the leaders of South Korea and the Soviet Union met for the first time. The summit between Roh Tae Woo and Mikhail Gorbachev demonstrated how far both nations have come: trade between Seoul and Moscow is expected to reach $1 billion this year, and diplomatic relations are pending. Despite its ties to the North, the Soviet Union needs investment and trade from Seoul more than it needs to help sustain one of the world's last holdouts against reform...
...live comfortably, most Koreans use Japanese aliases and hide their origins. But many are beginning to resent such subterfuges. "We're just like Japanese, so how are we supposed to change?" asks Ha Jung Nam, deputy director of a Korean residents association in Japan. President Roh Tae Woo's scheduled visit to Japan this week ignited simmering anger in Seoul against the treatment of Korean nationals, and he was under pressure to cancel the trip unless the long-standing grievances were resolved...