But Mr. Chung is having difficulty getting a government agency interested in his busts.
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Neither government seems interested in sorting it out, but some locals are passionate.
Recent developments suggest that at the very least, the federal government is interested in the appearance of caring about the little guy.
Still, the government remains interested in encouraging investment by issuing land concessions.
"The government is interested only in developing the market, " says Jamie Allen, secretary general of the Asian Corporate Governance Association, an independent, nonprofit organization.
Even the Chinese government gets interested in expanding personal privacy rights.
The Kyrgyz government is working on appropriate legislation in both the health and regulatory areas but both the miners and government were interested to learn more.
Nor is the Sudanese government particularly interested in Talisman's problems.
Following the US's lead, despite Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's hostile rhetoric regarding Israel, Israel continued to believe that he and his government were interested in maintaining Turkey's strategic alliance with Israel.
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The Palestinians resisted this because they had good reason to suspect that Israel's then government was interested less in reaching a final agreement than in keeping the bulk of the West Bank under Israel's permanent control.
Mr. Senussi, a man with jet-black curly hair and small, deep-set eyes, talked about the need for reform in Libya and said the government was interested in change, but he also leveled subtle but clear threats, Mr. Mehiri says.
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"A huge mistake was made in the 1990s because the UK parliament was dominated by MPs who weren't interested in local government, they were more interested in how the reorganisation played with their political members, " he said.
Palestinians saw this as a deliberate provocation, proving that Israel's government was not interested in resuming peace negotiations.
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Scotland's devolved government is keenly interested in these TIF plans and so is Alistair Darling, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer.
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Any government that is interested and willing to commit to the high standards set forth by OGP is welcome to join.
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The central government is only interested in a ceasefire, and its proposal to fold the ethnic armies into the national armed forces.
"This fallacious assertion of inappropriate U.S. action leads us to conclude that, unfortunately, the current Venezuelan government is not interested an improved relationship, " he said.
The minister said there had been "a great deal of progress" so far in the talks and it was "simply not true" to say that the government was not interested in compromise.
With passive restraints the government wanted to see how various devices worked, but Williamson involves seatbelts and there the government only was interested in setting a minimum standard manufacturers could exceed if they wanted.
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While many of the most-followed online figures on Sina Weibo already post under their real names, the rules have prompted concern that users will moderate their comments because Sina and presumably interested government officials can find out their real identities.
Oscar Castro, a professor of urban planning at the ITESO Jesuit University of Guadalajara, says Mexico's housing strategy encouraged "throw-away" homes because the government was more interested in touting mortgage approvals and driving economic growth via construction activity than in providing long-term housing solutions.
The government is therefore interested in discovering more about the beasts, so as not to kill the shark that lays the golden egg (though one recent finding is that whale sharks, unlike many of their relatives, actually give birth to live young, rather than laying eggs).
And in general, we obviously are interested in discovering what was involved in the support network for bin Laden, as the Pakistani government has said it is interested.
Auto parts are taxed to the max and the government does not seem interested in reducing that load.
When an economy is freed from the arbitrary rules imposed by self-interested Big Government bureaucrats, entrepreneurs inevitably rise up.
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"We have seen that the federal government itself is only interested in the flow of oil, " says Morris Alagoa of the campaign group Environmental Rights Action.
And they also believe that a Republican presidential administration -- namely, a potential George W. Bush administration -- will not be as interested in government activism as a solution to the problem.
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"The Sharia law has no priority here - in fact, people are not interested in any government law, " says Mumtaz Khan Jalkoti, a local lawyer.
David Stahan, the managing director of Phoenix Supply in Northern Ireland, said his owners had expressed a previous interest in Irish government assets and "remained interested".
Putin said that in order to keep investors interested, the government will approve amendments on corporate governance that only focused on state companies rather than private ones.
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