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“Hostages in the Hermit Kingdom”

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by Philip Gowman on 21 September, 2009

in ...blow by blow, DPRK

I can’t remember seeing any positive coverage of the two journalists (Laura Ling and Euna Lee) who managed to get themselves captured by the North Koreans on March 17, before getting released following a special visit by Bill Clinton. Here’s a random selection of some of the articles.

Bradley K Martin (Global Post, 18 June 2009): [...]

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Mad Cows: President Lee’s apology

24 May 2008 ...blow by blow

The following is the full text of President Lee Myung-bak’s statement in a live TV broadcast at Cheong Wa Dae on 22 May to address the resumption of U.S. beef imports and ratification of the Korea-U.S. FTA. Courtesy of the Korean Culture and Information Service (KOIS). For those who haven’t been following the Mad Cow [...]

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The $54 million pair of pants

24 August 2007 ...blow by blow

He’s been christened “Pants man”, he’s had vilification heaped on him, and may even lose his job, but still he battles on. He’s Washington judge Roy Pearson who’s been suing Custom Cleaners, owned by Korean immigrants Ki, Jin and Soo Chung, for rather a large sum of money for allegedly losing his trousers. He [...]

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KEB blow by blow

23 August 2007 ...blow by blow

Reports of HSBC’s renewed interest in KEB have given me the impetus to resurrect a post which has been work-in-progress for a while. I’ve been periodically trying to google back in time to reconstruct the whole KEB saga, and yesterday’s FT coverage gave a very useful framework on which to build.
So here is another of [...]

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Pastor Bae Hyun-kyu

29 July 2007 ...blow by blow

Just received from a reader
On behaf of Avaaz.org, I am asking the Korean Community to remeber the death of Pastor Bae Hyun-Kyu who was killed on his 42nd birthday on Wednesday 25th July by the Taliban militia in Central Afghanistan. Also, let us remember the 22 remaining hostage in Ghazni, who were due to be [...]

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Fakes and curruption in art and academia

22 July 2007 ...blow by blow
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There has been a number of stories of fakes recently. Here’s a brief round-up of links
1 Shin Jeong-ah.

Dongguk University Fires Bogus Professor, Korea Times, 20 July
Stroke of luck, raw talent fueled Shin’s ascent, JoongAng Daily, 14 July. Some selected extracts:

Shin Jeong-ah was 23 when the 1995 collapse of the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul buried [...]

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KORUS links

2 June 2007 ...blow by blow

The show’s not over yet on the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement, but while there’s a lull in the proceedings I’m taking the opportunity to post a few links which I’ll update as necessary.
1. The text of the draft agreement

The full text – an index of all the pdf documents which make up the individual chapters
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Hanwha and Kim Seung-youn links

19 May 2007 ...blow by blow

A lazy post to bring together some of the Hanwha coverage. Interestingly, not many of the bloggers seem to have shown much interest in the story, as far as I can see.

(South Korean police officers carry the seizures after searching at home of Hanwha Group Chairman and CEO Kim Seung-youn in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, [...]

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