He eventually becomes enamored of Yong Mi, and helps her realize her dream.

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Her lender: a nonprofit group called Mi-Bospo, a part of Women's World Banking, a global nonprofit network of 55 Third World lenders and banks.

FORBES: Up From The Rubble

Their caring yet distressed mother goes off in search of her estranged husband and parks the girls with their aunt (Mi-hyang Kim), a crude alcoholic who is neither tender nor attentive and leaves them largely to their own devices.

NEWYORKER: Treeless Mountain

Seung Mi Lee of South Korea's Kunsan University and her team announced a nanotube material at the conference that, they claimed, could store more than 14% of its own weight of hydrogen.

ECONOMIST: Space-age soot