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[VIEWPOINT]National power is in the library

If I had Aladdin's magic lamp, what would I ask the genie of the lamp to do? I would ask him to lift up the Widener Library at Harvard University and move it to Korea. I would feel good as I watch the genie in a turban pull up the huge marble building from the ground and carry it on the air above the Pacific Ocean. The wish came to me long ago, when I was returning to Korea after completing my studies at Harvard. It was the library that made …

Jan 19,2003
[FOUNTAIN]Better bilateral understanding

On Feb. 10, 2001, the USS Greenville, a 110-meter nuclear attack submarine, collided in the ocean near Hawaii with the Ehime Maru, operated by the Uwajima Fisheries High School and used to train Japanese students. Nine people, including four fisheries students, are missing and presumed dead. The U.S. government responded quickly. Officials of the U.S. Department of State, including Thomas Hubbard, now U.S. ambassador to South Korea, and the…

Jan 19,2003
[HEUNGBO'S GOURD]Could a simple 'C' ease tensions?

The year-end holiday season must have been extremely boring in Pyeongyang. On the day after Christmas, while those of us down here in the South who celebrate the holiday were munching on yummy leftovers, trying out our new gifts or perhaps recovering from a hangover, scholars in North Korea were gathered at an academic forum. According to reports heard on the North's Central Broadcasting Station, they adopted a motion calling on South Korean scho…

Jan 17,2003
[FORUM]Some disturbing omens emerging

The words and behavior of Roh Moo-hyun have proven to be one step ahead of his competitors. When people attacked his father-in-law's pro-communist activities, he turned things around, replying, "I love my wife," and when people accused him of not knowing the United States well enough, he silenced them by saying, "I will not go to America to stand in front of a camera." Television audiences saw him drinking a shot of soju with Chung Mong-j…

Jan 17,2003
[FOUNTAIN]This taboo word can help us all

What could be called the biggest achievement of President Kim Dae-jung? Many would say overcoming the 1997 economic crisis. Yet even this was not a complete achievement, considering the enormous fiscal deficit and failed "big deals," as represented by the troubles of Hynix Semiconductor Inc. Even the glory of the Nobel Peace Prize Mr. Kim received has been blemished by the corruption scandals involving his family members and close aides and ot…

Jan 17,2003
[VIEWPOINT]Back to Chinese character basics

Building an East Asian business center in Korea has become a significant issue. Korea, China and Japan are a potentially huge economic union, one that would account for 25 percent of the world's population and 20 percent of the global economy. If Korea were a regional business center, it would be a lucrative business for us; there would be more foreign direct investment and more jobs flowing into the country. The present economic hubs i…

Jan 16,2003
[OUTLOOK]Guacamole and mushroom clouds

To see and hear the words "North Korea" and "Santa Fe" in the same sentence, as I did several times last weekend, was at first rather jarring. As most everyone knows, two North Korean envoys, Han Seong-ryol, deputy ambassador to the United Nations, and Mun Jeong-chul, the first secretary, recently traveled to remote Santa Fe, the capital city of the southwestern state of New Mexico, to hold discussions with that state's governor, Bill Richard…

Jan 16,2003
[FOUNTAIN]A woman on the go

The game of go, or baduk in Korean, is considered an art, and the best players of the game are characterized as having entered the "realm of the gods." That characterization originated 1,500 years ago with the Liang Dynasty emperor Wudi. The emperor, a big fan of the game, sorted the ranks of go players into nine levels, according to mastery. The terms that describe the different classes of players describe their mastery. The first, lowest…

Jan 16,2003
[OUTLOOK]A correct place and job for us all

A person is at his best when he is in the place he should be and doing the work he should be doing. As precious as my place and work are to me, so is someone else's place and work to that person. When everyone is doing his job, it creates a harmony that makes a better world. On the other hand, there are those who are more interested in someone else's place and work instead of their own. To these people, it is always someone else's fault w…

Jan 16,2003
[SCRIVENER]Time to cut deals with the North

With Kim Jong-il last week demonized on the covers of The Economist, Time and Newsweek as Asia's Saddam Hussein, this might not be the best time to try to convince the world that he's actually a man we can do business with. But at least let me try. Two factors motivate me to marshal the evidence in his favor: first, a belief that we are only one step away -- and that step would be a U.S. belief, rightly or wrongly, that Mr. Kim has ordered…

Jan 16,2003

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