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...JONG-WOOK LEE by Alice Park...
Today, the incoming Director-General of the WHO is Jong-Wook Lee, who Farmer says “is a great man” who strongly values the health of the poor...
...ELECTED. DR. JONG WOOK LEE, 58, South Korean infectious-disease expert, as director general of the World Health Organization; in Geneva. Lee, a 19-year veteran of the WHO, will begin his five-year term in July. After his election at the organization's annual meeting, Lee announced that the WHO would set up a $200 million fund to fight severe acute respiratory syndrome, or sars...
...earn hard currency to pay for the food and fertilizer it cannot produce itself. Cutting off subsidies to deadbeat factories is just a first step, and there is no evidence the government has a blueprint for moving further. "They aren't scrapping the socialist system," says Koh Hyun Wook, an expert on North Korea at Kyungnam University near Pusan. "These are makeshift moves to overcome the current economic crisis...
Olympic archery gold medalist Kim Kyung Wook knows how demanding her sport can be. But nothing had prepared her for a training session this summer, which had little to do with bows and arrows. In August, coaches forced the nation's top male and female archers to attend a four-day Navy commando training camp at a military base in southwest Korea. Kim easily dealt with hiking along an open sewage ditch, sprinting with a car tire strapped to her back, floating for half an hour in frigid ocean waters and rolling commando-style in mud. But when coaches blindfolded...