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Media star at forefront of changing China
Her looks attract attention wherever she goes. It might be inappropriate to talk about a person’s appearance ahead of her accomplishments, but one can’t help it when talking about Yang Lan, a leading television anchor and interviewer in China. Flu…
June 14,2007
[In-depth interview]Reviving Mongolia’s early globalism
The Mongol Empire, built by Genghis Khan and his descendants, accomplished historic achievements in Asia and Europe 800 years ago, and that is recognized by the world,” said Nambaryn Enkhbayar, president of Mongolia. “The empire vitalized trade, mut…
June 06,2007
Double the images gives Kim fame in multitudes
From a distance, a Kim Dong-yoo painting looks like a large portrait, but a closer look shows that it is actually a grouping of repetitive portraits. Another portrait that looks like Van Gogh is actually a combination of images from the Dutch painte…
June 04,2007
Marketer tells about ‘Show,’ the video cell phone service
The cell phone service company KTF launched Korea’s first video cell phone service, “Show,” on March 1. The company claims it already has more than 500,000 subscribers. The JoongAng Daily interviewed Shin Hoon-joo, deputy director of KTF’s integrated…
June 04,2007
[Interview]Information is key to unification
Keep collecting information about the Kim Jong-il regime’s crimes against humanity, then gather even more of it after the two countries unify. That’s the suggestion of Rainer Eppelmann, president of the Stiftung Aufarbeitung, Germany’s state-run or…
June 01,2007
[Indepth interview]Thirty years on the road, by foot
Near Baekdam Temple in a remote part of Mount Seorak in Gangwon Province, the JoongAng Ilbo met with the Buddhist monk Wongong. Between 1972 and 1977 he undertook a ascetic exercise in isolation at Cheonchuksa, a temple on Mount Dobong, Seoul. He was…
May 30,2007
A ‘Chatting Beauty’ dishes the straight dirt
A tent-making missionary trip to Korea has become a 10-year long residence in the country for Leslie Benfield. The English editor at the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, who became well known through the television program “Chatting Beauties” on KBS, “had planned to work at a secular job, while working with the local church,” but now she is…
May 28,2007
A military tradition that spans three generations
In the Lee family, three generations of soldiers have devoted their lives to the military and protecting the nation. Lee Jae-ho, 54, a sergeant major in the Korean army, is at the center of this family. For the past 33 years, he has lived the life of a military officer. His father, Lee Doo-seong, who passed away in 2003, was also a soldier. The …
May 28,2007
Young pilot has high-flying hopes for the future
WONJU, Gangwon ― It is nine in the morning on a weekday at the Air Force’s combat plane runway in Wonju and a tiny plane alights gracefully on the runway. Out steps 14-year old Jeon Yoo-na, an 8th grader at Jecheon Girls’ High School. Jeon holds a pilot’s license for light aircraft, and is the youngest in Asia to have obtained such a certificati…
May 28,2007
North’s hopes same as other countries
International scholar Robert A. Scalapino recently expressed his thoughts on the current situation in the East Asian region, in particular regarding North Korea. Scalapino is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He founded its Institute for East Asian Studies and has visited the North five times, including a visit when…
May 23,2007
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