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Developer envisions a logistics hub

The Busan-Jinhae Free Economic Zone Authority will try to customize the type of foreign businesses it attracts, said Kim Moon-hee, the recently-appointed commissioner of the organization. Kim sees the zone’s future as a logistics hub, not only for Korea but also for the Northeast Asian region. “I will divide the zone into sections to speed up …

May 07,2007
[In-depth interview]Public design enhances nation’s image

Korea’s metropolitan cities are filled with “violence” ― visual violence, that is, from crude signboards covering buildings, billboards with vulgar slogans and garish lights that make pedestrians’ heads swim, says Kwon Young-gull. So, Kwon, 56, dean of Seoul National University’s arts department, has been leading campaigns against such violence. …

May 02,2007
Think of us as a local firm, says Motorola Korea president

Commemorating Motorola Korea’s 40th anniversary, the JoongAng Daily interviewed the company’s president, Gill Hyun-chang, at the company’s headquarters in southern Seoul. Gill said that Koreans often have a lot of antipathy toward foreigners due to a history of oppression. Q.You’re a chief executive of a huge foreign firm and yet you don’t make …

Apr 30,2007
Soulful island holds musician

“I am very honored to be promoting the Searoad Festival at a nationwide level,” said Kim O-hyun, 52, the director of the Folk Arts Committee of Jindo island, South Jeolla province. He is also the organizer of the 30th Mysterious Searoad Festival on Jindo island, which took place from April 17 to 19. “I believe it is an opportunity to experience th…

Apr 23,2007
Final fantasy of designer is games that seem like art

Hironobu Sakaguchi, 45, one of world’s leading video game producers, recently visited Korea for the first time. Well known for creating the “Final Fantasy” series (which has sold over 68 million units worldwide), Sakaguchi is currently managing a company called “Mistwalker” that develops new games. During a press conference last week at Lotte Hot…

Apr 23,2007
Dancing out from mother’s shadow

The former first soloist and president of the Korea National Ballet, Choi Tae-ji, 48, seems to have passed her dancing genes to her eldest daughter, Choi Li-na, 21, who recently joined the Boris Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, becoming the first foreign dancer in the company’s history. “She went to Russia last October to join the ballet company,…

Apr 23,2007
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

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