The average Zambian was certainly worse off than the average South Korean in 1964.
In the mid-1990s I found myself the only non-North Korean in a class studying Chinese in northeast China.
Shown a photo of a snarling Rodman, piercings dangling from his lower lip and two massive tattoos emblazoned on his chest, one North Korean in Pyongyang recoiled and said: "He looks like a monster!"
At the moment there is very little trade taking place in Korean debt in terms of secondary issues.
Son is a third generation ethnic Korean who, according to the bio sketch, grew up amid the stench of pig manure and bootlegged sake in a Korean village in Saga prefecture on the southern island of Kyushu.
Korean television entertainment is popular in China, and there are many fans of Korean dramas in China.
The South Korean government provides insurance for most companies operating in the Kaesong complex, but any major disruptions to operations would hurt other small South Korean businesses in the supply chain.
Greenpeace disputes those figures, saying that other reports show a 5-7% decline in whales off the Korean coast in stocks already marked as protected by the International Whaling Commission.
On Veterans Day 2010, speaking to servicemembers, their families, and American and Korean veterans who served in the Korean War from Yongsan Army Garrison in Seoul, South Korea, President Obama explained some of the ways his Administration is working to make sure veterans have the care and benefits they need when they return home.
The California-based tech behemoth is also locked in a lengthy legal challenge with its Korean rival in the courts, with numerous patent infringement cases pending in over 10 different countries.
He has tried South Korea: two years ago a summit in Pyongyang with South Korea's president, Kim Dae-jung, ended with promises of large dollops of South Korean aid in return for greater contact across the inter-Korean divide.
Some of the signs are even in Korean, which seems odd in rural Kentucky.
The term "swish of skirt" is often used in Korean to describe women acting in a way seen as overly aggressive, such as housewives trying to micromanage all aspects of their children's educations.
The attacks are similar to those that targeted South Korean websites in July 2009.
Ubiquitous, fast and cheap access to the Internet has upended Korean society in dramatically unexpected ways.
Officials say another option is for Bosworth to meet North Korean officials in Beijing.
Mr. Yi also expressed caution over the continued strength of the Korean won in 2013.
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The Korean chaebol, or conglomerates, borrowed won, the Korean currency, in huge amounts from Korean banks to make government-directed investments.
He flew Navy fighter jets during the Korean War in the 1950s, and joined the US space programme in 1962.
Prohibition of duty drawback would nullify the benefits of the FTA for Korean products in the EU market.
We have about 400, 000 Korean autos in the United States and a few thousand American cars here in Korea.
It has filed complaints against the Korean manufacturer in the US and won injunctions in the Australia and Germany.
Unexpected because the top U.S. negotiator held several days of direct talks with his North Korean counterpart in Berlin.
In South Korea's omnipresent "PC bangs" ( bang means room in Korean), millions lose themselves in virtual worlds day after day.
The two sides are to push for a declaration of the ending of the Korean War in cooperation with neighboring nations.
Specialists noted that this was the first time the U.S. has ever linked humanitarian assistance to inducing North Korean participation in talks.
"I'd been influenced by many other cultures, so that was a big challenge to address this Korean quality in a contemporary way, " Cho said.
Born of Korean heritage in a place with little tolerance of foreigners (particularly Koreans), Son has fought the battles of an outsider all his life.
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