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jung moon

Korean families reunite for a few days - 3 views

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  • jung moon on 30 Sep 09
     
    Even though South and North Koreans are 'Koreans', we cannot communicate each other because of many reasons.
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  • Nora Ibrahim on 04 Oct 09
     
    It is amazing isn't it.. so similar yet very different in many ways. Cultural differences due to the distance?
  • xuejiao lin on 05 Oct 09
     
    When I was in Liaoning University of China (it is located in the capital city named Shenyang in Liaoning Province, which adjoins North Koreans), I had a very good friend as my roommate who came from Pyongyang. She was quiet and polite all the time. Meanwhile she even did not like to see those called Roman porn films made by South Korean. She was really different from those many South Korean oversea students in China. Once a time, I asked her to tell me about the confliction between north and south in nowadays. She would say nothing but insisted that "finally, they(the south) will come to us(the north)". Unfortunitlly, she got disappeared at the beginning of the second half semester. Is she a spy?
  • jung moon on 07 Oct 09
     
    From Seoul to Pyongyang (capital city in North Korea) takes only 30 mins I heard. But these families (in the article) couldn't see each other over 50 years....
  • jermaine lee on 07 Oct 09
     
    I knew that South Koreans and North Koreans can't cross the border to visit each other, but i really don't know that they can't even send e-mails. It's such a pity that they don't know when they will see their relatives next time.
  • anonymous on 07 Oct 09
     
    It is reminiscent of families being split in East and West Germany. People would plan trips to Lake Balaton in Hungary to catch up. But that said they could send (censored) letters and make phone calls. If the North Korean Government are so kean to keep these families split up why are they allowing these meetings to take place? The cruelty of it all is hard to comprehend, seeing a loved one never to know if you will see them again.
jung moon

South Korea aims to become Asia's new medical travel hub - 0 views

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South Korea plastic surgery Korean Wave asia aims hub

shared by jung moon on 30 Sep 09 - Cached
  • the Seoul city government has launched a project to attract more foreign tourists seeking cosmetic surgery -- capitalising on the popularity of the "Korean Wave" of pop culture in Asia in recent years.
  • Cosmetic surgery is commonplace in South Korea. A Kyung Hee University survey in 2007 found that 47.3 percent of adults had experienced it.
jung moon

In South Korea, All of Life Is Mobile - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...25iht-mobile.html

technology mobile-phone South-Korea mobile life

shared by jung moon on 31 Jul 09 - Cached
  • For South Koreans, efforts to replace credit cards and cash hit their stride in 2004, when banks began issuing integrated circuit chips that slot into the mobile phones and allow them to work like credit cards at A.T.M.’s.
  • Mobile payment has been adopted in many parts of Europe and Asia, especially in Japan. Still, phones have a long way to go before replacing plastic.
  • For Kim Hee-young, her mobile is the Swiss Army knife of the digital era. When she wants ice cream, she just asks her phone, and it shows a list of ice cream shops — complete with their menus and customer reviews — and the shortest way to get there.
  • jung moon on 31 Jul 09
     
    mobile phone is like the Swiss Army knife of the digital era. (Kim Hee-young, a student)
xinning ji

American Thinker Blog: South Korean drama hits America - 0 views

www.americanthinker.com/..._korean_drama_hits_americ.html

shared by xinning ji on 23 Sep 09 - Cached
  • South Korea's television soap operas are finding big audiences overseas, including here in the Bay Area, as well as other major American cities with large Asian populations.
  • South Korean studios invested heavily in state—of—the—art production facilities, embodying the latest digital technology. Today, many Japanese films are shot in Korea, to take advantage of lower costs and better facilities there. And studio tours for tourists have become a big business.
Christoph Zed

AFP: Kadhafi calls for 'NATO of the south' at Venezuela summit - 0 views

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nato politics power-play

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  • pushing for the creation of a "NATO of the South" by 2011 to counter the military bloc of the United States and European powers.
  • Energy infrastructure development and joint oil project cooperation were the central topics of the meeting,
  • Libya is the gateway to Africa for us because it is a country well-known for its socialist policies that plays an important and strategic role for us
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  • no global challenge in the 21st Century that cannot be tackled by Africa and South America, and there is no challenge that can be addressed without
Christoph Zed

Gaddafi proposes 'Nato of the South' at South America-Africa summit - Times Online - 0 views

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nato power-play politics

shared by Christoph Zed on 28 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Colonel Gaddafi proposed an African-Latin American defence alliance yesterday at an intercontinental summit hosted by Venezuela.
  • President Mugabe of Zimbabwe and President Zuma of South Africa were among almost 30 leaders from across the two continents present as Mr Chávez sought to promote his socialist policies abroad, urging a new world order that would confront Western dominance
  • “The world’s powers want to continue to hold on to their power,” said Mr Gaddafi, who had a white limousine flown to Venezuela to meet him at the airport.
Christoph Zed

BBC NEWS | Europe | Bhajis and cricket balls in Brescia - 0 views

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cricket sport culture clash europe italy immigration identity

shared by Christoph Zed on 28 Aug 09 - Cached
  • This is the San Polo municipal football ground on the outskirts of Brescia - a big industrial city in the north of Italy home to one of the biggest south Asian communities in the country.
  • The attraction is cricket - the final rounds of a limited overs competition.
  • "It's not a good place to live", he says. "Most Italians only speak their own language and so - unlike Indians and Pakistanis - they don't mix well with people from other cultures."
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  • the place could benefit from a "multicultural mix-up"
  • The League is almost invariably described as xenophobic
  • there have been complaints about cricket in the parks; and, yes, it has been banned, with local police ordered to halt games
  • "I want to see more Italian kids take it up," he adds. "Cricket can help build links between the Italian and immigrant communities - and help us avoid some of the problems we've seen in the past."
  • He is a politician - a pragmatist who simply can no longer afford to ignore the demands of his hometown's large south Asian community. And in this case pragmatism - it would seem - might just be the best way to start building a better life for everyone.
jung moon

China's youth look to Seoul for inspiration - 0 views

www.chinadaily.com.cn/...content_509119.htm

shared by jung moon on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • oday, in China, South Korean missionaries are bringing Christianity with an Asian face. South Korean movies and dramas about urban professionals in Seoul, though not overtly political, present images of modern lives centering on individual happiness and sophisticated consumerism.
Christoph Zed

Can India's economy overtake China? - 0 views

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markets india china economy globalisation

shared by Christoph Zed on 05 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Can the lumbering elephant overtake the hyperactive dragon?
  • In 2010, the Indian economy may grow faster than that of China.
  • China and India, accounting for roughly 40% of the 6.5bn plus people on Planet Earth, are not merely the two fastest growing major economies in the world at present, but are among the few countries that have continued to expand at a time when the economies of most countries have contracted
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  • Economists argue that one reason why India's economy can grow faster than that of China in the near future is simply on account of what statisticians describe as a "base effect"
  • China's economy is roughly three and a half times bigger than that of India - Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measured in US dollars in 2008 for the two countries stood at $4.2 trillion and $1.2 trillion respectively.
  • Two years ago, China overtook the US as India's largest trading partner.
  • World Bank in its Global Development Finance 2009 report projected that in 2010, the rate of growth of India's economy at 8% would be faster than that of China, expected to be 7.7%
  • developing countries could "become a key driving force" in reviving the world's economy
  • it was no longer improbable that India could grow faster than China or that South Asia would expand at a faster pace than East and South-East Asia
xinning ji

BBC NEWS | South Asia | A new India emerges at the movies - 0 views

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  • Western filmmakers are increasingly tapping India for inspiration and locations and perceiving it in a new light.
  • The film raises many ethical and emotional questions without being judgmental.
  • Indeed, regeneration, spiritual and otherwise, seems to be the new buzzword driving the Western gaze on India.
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  • With the culturally condescending, poverty-fixated, cliché-ridden Western vision of a populous nation of a million contradictions undergoing marked dilution, a new India is beginning to emerge in the cinema of the world.
Nadeem Uddin

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Slumdog child actors in new movie - 0 views

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  • The child stars of the hit film Slumdog Millionaire are set to star in another film, possibly sharing a screen with British actor Anthony Hopkins.
  • "Lord Owen's Lady".
  • We have been given a new house and our condition is improving but Azhar's father did not live to see the good days,"
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  • The children and their families recently moved to new housing. The accommodation was arranged by the government and a trust formed by Slumdog's British director Danny Boyle.
  • I will do it if my parents ask me to do it. I had a good time acting in the previous film. I would like to act in this new film also
  • Christoph Zed on 08 Sep 09
     
    Bollywood meets Hollywood
  • xinning ji on 14 Sep 09
     
    he is a lucky slumdog child. I like that movie after I watched it. I found it is not easy to a person from a poor man to be rich. Also he has to make an hard effort to fulfil the dream. so best wishes to Azhar.
Rika Ninomiya

China eyes Asian and Western media funds | The Australian - 1 views

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Korea Japan Hollywood China Globalization CulturalProduct

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  • CHINA Investment Corporation, the $US200billion ($243bn) state-run sovereign wealth fund, is planning to invest in several Western and Asian media funds.
  • The investments could give the Chinese government a direct stake in a rich variety of media content -- from South Korean television dramas and Japanese game shows to Hollywood blockbusters and globally franchised animation series.
xinning ji

China Concubines Return Thanks To Increasing Capitalism - 0 views

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shared by xinning ji on 06 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Concubines are no longer kept hidden away behind closed doors. In modern China's far more open society, concubines can be seen in the shopping malls and cafes of the cities, especially in the south, where there are thousands of what are known as "er nai" or "second breast".
  • "China's future will be undermined in those corrupt officials' hands," wrote one outraged citizen. Another described the corrupt cadres who keep concubines as "absolutely superfluous, vampires, corrupt scum. They deserve to be killed".
  • xinning ji on 08 Sep 09
     
    I don't know if concubines should be moral issue or not. in traditional China, man had right to re-marry and lived with more than two wivies. today, even though the law doesn't allow re-marry, many men still can find lover outside without marital relationship.
xinning ji

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Australia 'uranium' dust concerns - 0 views

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  • David Bradbury, a renowned filmmaker and activist, claims the haze that engulfed some of the country's biggest cities in the past week contains radioactive grains - or tailings - carried on gale force winds from a mine in the South Australian desert.
    • xinning ji
      xinning ji on 28 Sep 09
       
      it is a disaster. I've never seen Australian weather like that since I lived here. It is a beautiful country and beautiful environment, why there is dust storm? it looks like the end of the world.
  • "In a big dust storm, the dust is not going to come from one isolated site, it is going to be mixed in with dust from a [wide] area and diluted considerably,"
Maria D'Amato

Millions set to disconnect their fixed-line phones - 0 views

www.theage.com.au/...line-phones-20090904-fbih.html

shared by Maria D'Amato on 08 Oct 09 - Cached
  • ABOUT 2 million people are considering ditching their fixed-line home phones, as Australians move closer to becoming one of the world's first wireless economies.
  • There are 105 mobiles for every 100 people, making Australia one of the most saturated markets in the world behind South Korea, with 114 mobile phones for every 100 people.
  • An ACMA study last year found the decline of fixed lines has been led by younger consumers. About 91 per cent of retirees said their main form of communication was the fixed-line phone, while 70 per cent of 18-to-31 year-olds consider mobile phones as their main form of communication.
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  • This year Telstra reported its fixed-line subscribers fell by four per cent to 9.2 million, while its mobile-phone subscribers increased four per cent to 9.7 million subscribers. An ACMA spokesman said Australians owned a total of 21.2 million mobile phones.
anonymous

China Aims to Steady North Korea - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 08 Oct 09
     
    North Korea's leader gave an unusually exuberant welcome this week to the prime minister of China, whose trip was intensely monitored by the rest of the world for progress on efforts to halt North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
jung moon

Asia Times Online :: South Asia news - 'Native English' is losing its power - 0 views

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english' china culture international globalisation communication

shared by jung moon on 05 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Even as the English language continues its meteoric global rise, native speakers such as the North Americans, British and Australians will soon become a rare breed, overwhelmed by the many millions who have started speaking English as their second language.
  • the new lingua franca in what is now often called a flat world.
  • "So the balance of power is changing, and when the second-language speakers adopt English language as their own language or as a second language, they actually take control of it, mix it and use it with their own language, developing new forms, vocabulary and ways and using English."
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  • "China now produces over 20 million English speakers each year, and possibly within a few years, there could be more English speakers in China than in India."
  • Graddol's findings predict that by 2015, there will be about 2 billion people from Asia and non-English-speaking Europe learning English.
  • However, that is not necessarily good news for native English speakers. Instead, it could come as a big blow because "they can no longer look the other way, celebrating the rising hegemony of their language".
  • As English becomes more widely used as a global language, it will become expected that speakers will signal their nationality, and other aspects of their identity, through English, Graddol says. Lack of a native-speaker accent will not be seen, therefore, as a sign of poor competence.
  • jung moon on 07 Oct 09
     
    I hope someday I can speak 'Konglish (Korean English)' in everywhere. :D
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