Yet Kim Seong Bae, a director in charge of restructuring, still wonders why they are there.

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Chung Seong-hyun, a food vendor in the central Seoul shopping district of Myeongdong, said Chinese is now essential on his menu board.

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South Korea, silver-medallists in 1988 and 1996, earned a last-minute goal through captain Kim Seong-Eun, but it was not enough to keep them in contention for the semi-finals.

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Not long after his relationship with Kim ended, Ko took up with a 31-year-old single mother named Claudia Seong.

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Ko, Seong and her sister Young Joo picked up Kim and drove to a dead-end New Jersey street.

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