Chung Seong-hyun, a food vendor in the central Seoul shopping district of Myeongdong, said Chinese is now essential on his menu board.
Not a lot to smile about at Dodger Stadium except a Korean pitcher named Hyun-Jin Ryu who looks good and a Korean entertainer named Psy who comes to a game to dance in the aisles between innings while a wide-eyed Tommy Lasorda looks at him like he's a man from Mars.
By 11 a.m. on Dec. 19, 2002, exit poll results showed that the iconoclastic Roh Moo Hyun, 56, a 2-to-1 favorite among youth, was losing the election.
In South Korea, attempts to remove Roh Moo-hyun have backfired catastrophically: a brand-new party loyal to Mr Roh has seized a majority in the country's parliament (see article).
Just 18, air rifle ace Kang Cho Hyun recently scored 399 out of 400 at a major tournament.
"I would not be out of it, " says Park Hyun Joo, the chief investment officer of a Seoul fund management firm.
On Monday, Mr Bush issued a joint statement with Roh Moo-hyun, South Korea's president, calling for the six-way talks to be resumed.
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Hyun Oh Seok, South Korean finance minister insisted the plunging yen remained a "concern" and urged an orderly exit from extraordinarily loose monetary policy.
President Bush also responded to detractors during a joint news conference Thursday with South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun in Gyeongju, South Korea.
Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-Hee's second daughter, Lee Seo-Hyun, is president of Cheil Industries, which started out in 1954 as a textile manufacturer and later expanded into chemicals and the fashion business.
Kore battled on, edging a second goal before the break and testing Australian nerves when Park Mi Hyun scored five minutes from time.
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But rapprochement talks between the countries hit a wall after conservative South Korean President Lee Myung-bak took office in early 2008, with a tougher stance toward the North than Kim and his successor, Roh Moo-hyun.
Kettmann also takes the reader to Santo Domingo, where Pedro Martinez's former coach watches the action from a sports bar, and to Kwangju, South Korea, where former Sox reliever Byung-Hyun Kim's old high school coach is watching the game at two in the morning.
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