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A collection of links about a long-running story

Mad Cows: President Lee’s apology

24-May-08
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 debate, I'll be adding a series of links at the bottom of this post in due course. It has been almost three months since I was inaugurated as President. During that period, I have been working hard to live up to the aspirations of the entire Korean people with the idea that, "The economy must be revived without fail." I have been striving all along with ...
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The $54 million pair of pants

24-Aug-07
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 clearly has a good acting coach: The D.C. judge who sued his dry cleaners for $65 million in damages broke down in tears yesterday while testifying about the emotional pain of losing his suit pants. reports the Wall Street Journal Law Blog on June 14. Only in America. Read on in the articles below for the full story. Links: Korean immigrants sued for $67 million for missing pants? WTF?: Marmot's Hole, ...
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KEB blow by blow

23-Aug-07
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 my collections of links around a particular story, which I'll update as and when I come across more. The chronology and narrative is from the FT. The links are mine, many of them via Tom Coyner. August 2003 Lone Star agrees to pay Won1,400bn ($1.5bn) to take control of ailing Korea Exchange Bank. Lone Star to purchase Korean bank today, JoongAng Daily, 27 August 2003 New player in ...
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Pastor Bae Hyun-kyu

29-Jul-07
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 executed on Saturday. The Taliban have delayed the time of their execution, but we do not have minutes but only seconds to release these hostages. PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION at: http://www.avaaz.org/en/honour_the_afghan_code/ This is an urgent appeal to the Taliban to release the hostages unharmed. Thanking you in advance for supporting this petition. Rosa Manson Links: Avaaz blog Taliban Kidnapper of Korean Hostages Killed, Chosun, 19 September Korea "paid $20 million to ...
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Fakes and curruption in art and academia

22-Jul-07
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 her in darkness. She lay in the rubble for 24 hours before getting plucked out. Shin was one of the few survivors of the worst collapse in Korean history, which killed more than 500 people. From the day of the collapse on, Shin said she vowed to change. Instead of being shy and reclusive, she developed an aggressive, extroverted personality. "She just tried to organize exhibitions ...
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KORUS links

02-Jun-07
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 Press release containing links to a summary document and specific summaries of the auto and agricultural provisions 2. Coverage from the US perspective South Korea, U.S. release full text of free trade agreement - International Herald Tribune, 25 May: Earlier this month, the Bush administration, under pressure from Congressional Democrats, agreed to new trade policy guidelines that will elevate labor and environmental rights to key components in future free ...
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Hanwha and Kim Seung-youn links

19-May-07
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, May 1, 2007. Police on Tuesday searched the home of the South Korean business tycoon accused of taking part in a sensational revenge attack on bar workers after his son was hurt in a fight in a karaoke pub. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Choi Jae-gu)) One of those Kahoidong fake-hanok-style houses. Some of the links: Rough and tumble, Korean style: Donald Kirk, Asia Times, 5 May 2007: Even as investigators searched ...
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