Word: yonsei
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...stories on the allegations. Last month Roh asked the courts to suspend the lawsuits until the end of his term, after an avalanche of bad press. But the damage has already been done. Making it personal doesn't look very presidential, says Choi Yang Soo, a communications scholar at Yonsei University in Seoul: "The President should be able to handle the scrutiny." Lee Chung Hee, a political scientist at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, says, "If the President has problems, he should solve them through consultation instead of storming off like a man possessed...
...Conservatives have used the battle to accuse Kim of being soft on Pyongyang and to trash the President's Sunshine Policy of North-South dEtente. "The Sunshine Policy used to be a major asset for Kim and his allies," says Moon Chong In, an expert on Korean politics at Yonsei University. "All of a sudden it has become a major liability...
...witch-hunt, according to a poll by broadcaster MBC and Gallup Korea. It was certainly a big operation: more than 400 full-time tax inspectors worked over five months. The fines are also among the heftiest ever imposed. According to Yang Seung Ham, a professor of political science at Yonsei University in Seoul: "This was definitely a political decision. The government decided it couldn't postpone doing something about the media...
...still justify Japan's World War II aggression as an effort to liberate Asia from European colonization or, in the case of Korea, to aid the country's modernization. "None of this was for Korea," scoffs Lee Jung Hoon, an expert on modern Japan-Korea relations at Seoul's Yonsei University. "Korea was simply a stepping stone for future advancement into Manchuria and China...
...Teenage girls are offering themselves for sex at chat sites, and police have set up a special squad to patrol cyberspace. In a society where smut isn't readily available, easy access to the Internet is exposing more kids to pornography, says Kim Yong Hak, a sociology professor at Yonsei University. In a survey of 10 elementary schools in Seoul, he found 10% of 11-year-olds had visited porn sites. With PCs in kids' bedrooms and PC rooms on every street corner, it isn't easy to turn back the tide. Says Kim: "With one key stroke, a child...