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How can NGOs survive democracy?

For many people, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) used to represent hope. Their morally-based and self-sacrificing civic movements engaged the people’s attention. This brought NGOs force and power, and put them at the forefront of a recent renaissance in public life. These organizations accompanied the rise of the 1987 pro-democracy movement. …

Apr 18,2007
Emotional search for a lost identity

In the winter of 1966, a girl called Ok-jin boarded a plane to the United States, but her passport carried the name of Cha Jeong-hee. The girl was told by the orphanage where she had been living that she should not tell anyone her real name. Mr. And Mrs. Borshay, who already had two children, welcomed their adopted daughter at the San Francisco…

Apr 16,2007
A prize-winning inspiration in the science laboratory

Graduating top of her class in 2007 from the University of Tokyo, Chae Eun-mi, 24, received the University of Tokyo Presidential Award in physics. “At the University of Tokyo there was so much devotion to physics, it was motivating for me,” Chae said. “If Japanese students were as busy studying English, to find a job, as Koreans are, it would’v…

Apr 16,2007
Red Cross chief touts humanitarian focus

The datebook of Han Wan-sang, head of the South Korean Red Cross, is full these days. As inter-Korean relations that were frozen after the North’s nuclear test last year began to thaw in February, Red Cross-led humanitarian efforts started picking up. The JoongAng Ilbo sat down with Han recently to discuss Korea’s separated families, prisoners of w…

Apr 11,2007
An old shirt stirs memories

Li Chan-myong, 62, the director of the North Korean youth soccer team, had a big surprise last week when he saw a uniform that a North Korean soccer player wore during the 1966 World Cup games in England. “Right, this is right. Clearly it is the uniform we wore,” Li said, feeling the cloth. “There are none in the North and I didn’t expect to see …

Apr 09,2007
A surgeon’s knife cuts away sadness

Plastic surgeon Han Sung-ik, 48, performs reconstructive surgery for the poor, and he only charges 10,000 won ($9.80). Han recently published a book, “Ten Thousand Won’s Surgery, Ten Thousand Won’s Happiness,” describing how he met poor people with facial deformities and ended up doing surgery for them. The JoongAng Ilbo interviewed Han at his hosp…

Apr 09,2007
[In-depth interview]Mayor takes aim at public slackers

In January, the mayor of Ulsan Metropolitan City on the country’s southeastern coast began an experiment to end longstanding personnel practices that virtually guaranteed public servants an “iron rice bowl” for life. “I didn’t think an initiative by a small city would spread this fast nationwide. I think it speaks for what the people want of offic…

Apr 03,2007
Pushing back the boundaries of the cosmos with a balloon

Park Na-hee, a particles physicist in the doctoral program at Ewha Womans University, was awarded the NIM A Young Scientist Award at the Vienna Conference on Instrumentation, held in mid-February. NIM (Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research) A is a world-class academic magazine that publishes work produced by advanced scientific resea…

Apr 02,2007
Saving souls through soccer

The man once called the “guru of Korean soccer” is investing his life-savings to help create children’s soccer teams in South Africa, the country that will host the 2010 World Cup. Lim Heung-se, 51, the president of Lim Sports, a sporting goods store in Dongdaemun, is famous for having coached popular soccer players such as Hong Myeong-bo. Last m…

Apr 02,2007
Armstrong visit to Korea to raise cancer awareness

Lance Armstrong, the American cyclist who won the Tour de France seven straight times after surviving testicular cancer, will visit Korea in August, the Seoul Olympic Sports Promotion Foundation announced yesterday. The 35-year-old cyclist is invited to the international cycling competition, “Tour de Korea 2007,” scheduled Sept. 1-9 across the co…

Mar 29,2007

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