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With apologies for not reporting on this well in advance, but with hopes that this post will allow for some advance planning for next year's events, here's a bit on the 2007 International Korean Adoptee Association's Gathering that took place during the week of July 31st- August 5th in Seoul, South Korea.

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1) the period of Malthusian stagnation up to 1910, when Japan annexed Korea; 2) the colonial period from 1910-45, when the country embarked upon modern economic growth; and 3) the post colonial decades, when living standards improved rapidly in South Korea, while North Korea returned to the world of disease and starvation.

South Korea's finance ministry said on Monday it was maintaining its 2008 economic growth target of around 6 percent, due to deregulation and tax cuts, despite a slowing global economy. Economic growth in 2007 was 4.9 percent. Asia's fourth-largest economy is expected to be capable of 7-percent growth and have a stable current account and prices in five years, the Ministry of Strategy and Finance said in a report to the new president, Lee Myung-bak. "The new government will endeavor to achieve a growth target of some 6 percent, continuing efforts for economic recovery and managing risk factors," said the ministry.