Word: yonge
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Under the leadership of Yun Jong Yong, an avid disciple of American management gurus like Jack Welch, the electronics company laid off a third of its work force, or about 30,000 people, slashed costs and dropped sideline businesses like pagers and electric coffeepots. Yun recruited top managers and engineers from the U.S. Back in Seoul, recruits were put through a four-week boot camp in which they were awakened before 6 a.m. every day to martial anthems extolling the virtues of being a Samsung man. Marathon mountain hikes were part of the drill...
...Under the leadership of Yun Jong Yong, an avid disciple of American management gurus like Jack Welch, the electronics company laid off a third of its work force, or about 30,000 people, slashed costs and dropped sideline businesses like pagers and electric coffeepots. Yun recruited top managers and engineers from the U.S. Back in Seoul, recruits were put through a four-week boot camp in which they were awakened before 6 a.m. every day to martial anthems extolling the virtues of being a Samsung man. Marathon mountain hikes were part of the drill...
...unions' main gripe now: a government plan to privatize 11 public corporations such as Lee's employer Korea Electric Power Co. Labor Minister Bang Yong Seok says the strikes are a waste of time and that there's no possibility of changing the plan. Bang, who fought authoritarian rule as a young union leader in the 1970s, says, in the global economy today, only competitive companies survive, and unions have to get with the program...
...think there's nothing but rubbish on the Internet, you're not a film director. First there was Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu, then Shunji Iwai's All About Lily Chou-Chou, two films inspired by stories on the Net. Three years ago, Korean director Kwak Jae-yong read a Web column tracing the ups and downs of a relationship between two college students: she eccentric, he naive. Kwak has turned it into My Sassy Girl, an esculent entr?e billed as a romantic comedy. In fact, it's harder to categorize: the movie is absurd, bizarre; it beats...
...town of Yong Jing in northern China is "so small that when the local canteen prepared a dish of beef and onions the smell reached the nose of every single inhabitant." And the 17-year-old narrator of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Knopf; 197 pages) and his friend Luo, 18, city youths from Sichuan's capital, Chengdu, are dispatched to a small village so remote it is a long day's journey from Yong Jing. It is 1971, midway during the Cultural Revolution, and they are the unwitting - and unwilling - assignees to a program of re-education through...