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In exchange, the Koreans have undertaken to sweep away the so-called non-tariff barriers that have been used to protect their car industry.

And it is all about meat, and where it comes from, while just a few hundred kilometres away, North Koreans are dying in a famine.

China has "made it pretty clear that they're very unhappy with the way the North Koreans have been behaving, " he said.

He was prepared to go on a moment's notice to begin discussions with the North Koreans.

East means East Asians - mainly Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese in research so far - as well as much of the rest of the world.

Ms. Park said she used to look down on North Koreans. "I associated them with something poor, dark and negative, " she said.

Samsung apologised for "causing concerns" to South Koreans and said that next week it would unveil a reform plan to put the company right.

"I think they [the North Koreans] recognize that this indeed means the matter is resolved, " Hill said.

However, Mr Wen did not strike such an encouraging tone for the South Koreans when he spoke to them directly.

All the same, the number of North Koreans ready to take the risks is rising fast.

He said the North Koreans continue to pursue new ways to stimulate the agricultural sector but cannot fund their ambitious projects.

The first South Koreans to meet the new leader returned to Seoul on Tuesday and said the encounter was too brief to form a deep impression.

Americans were most willing to sacrifice their homes , while South Koreans were most ready to sacrifice their love life .

In August, he made a trip designed to remind North Koreans of his father, Kim Il Sung, the country's founder and ruler for four decades.

For now, the episode appeared to take its place in a long series of provocations South Koreans have gotten used to.

UNSCIENTIFIC studies conclude that if you were to ask ten Koreans, "What is the one thing you cannot live without? "

He said the appointments were also meant to rally North Koreans behind the communist regime to stave off rising external pressure.

Meanwhile, the emergence of informal markets since the last famine underlines how much better North Koreans' coping mechanisms have become.

"We actually are in discussions with the North Koreans and I think we'll just see where we come out in a few weeks. "

Just as it looked like the first half would end scoreless, the Koreans scored to put the Germans behind for the first time at T&T 2010.

The North Koreans take sports seriously and we see them really trying to be as prepared for the Olympics as possible.

S. city of Detroit. Obama has said he would like to see Koreans driving U. S. -built cars the way many Americans drive Korean cars.

Look at how much difficulty the older East Germans had adapting. The North Koreans will be 10x harder to integrate into a modern society.

But, says Kwon, South Koreans are not ready to abandon today's supermarkets - not yet at least.

Dragons have been an integral part of the culture of the Chinese, Koreans and Japanese peoples since the beginning of recorded history.

Monday's actions marked at least the second time that the North had allowed South Koreans to return home since the border's closing.

But China will continue trying to prod the North Koreans into reforming the economy and opening the country more to the outside world.

The sun worship is a universal primitive belief and through the oviparous myth the sun worship of the ancient Koreans can be seen.

A study by the Korea Food and Drug Administration seems to contradict the stereotype that Koreans have bigger faces than Caucasians.

Koreans denigrate the claim, pointing out that the island has no take, or bamboo, at all.

But their distinctive accent, similar to that of North Koreans, betrays their origin.

We receive no funds from the South Koreans and the only thing we get out of being there is a headache.

Once again, Mr Kim showed how he puts his own survival over that of the North Koreans he brutalises.

Any video appearance by ordinary North Koreans in a state media outlet, however, is unlikely to be completely spontaneous in nature.

PC: Besides the body of Kim Il Sung, who North Koreans believe to be the greatest human being ever to live?

Many South Koreans view the launch in terms of national pride, as a milestone of the country's progress in its indigenous space program.

Even so, defectors and North Koreans who do business with China increasingly are able to get news out of the country.

This has nothing to do with the Koreans, please do not focus on my user ID. This whole incident was done by those chinese people.

The public description of the meeting leaves the reader with a one-dimensional impression of the North Koreans as inflexible.

"If past is prologue, I mean that's the way the North Koreans operate, " he said. "Let's see where we are by the end of the week. "

So far my experience with the Koreans here are pretty good, especially at my work.

In November and December, police in Yanji, Jilin province, turned up the heat by raiding more homes suspected of harboring North Koreans.

'The North Koreans have always threatened to turn the South into a sea of fire. But now I've seen it. '

Since the war ended, Koreans by the millions have flooded from the countryside into the city.

He said it struck the deal in Pompei, Italy, in early February, which predates the negotiations between Pirma and the North Koreans.

"It takes all of these groups -- Japanese, Koreans, Chinese -- a long time to do their due diligence, " said the banker.

Clinton declined to elaborate on her assertion that every possible channel with the North Koreans was being used.

Six South Koreans were killed when the North opened the gates to a dam near the border, flooding the banks of a river shared by both sides.

It is not clear, however, how far the Americans will press the point if the North Koreans continue to deny enriching uranium.

(*) Russians, Chinese, North Koreans -- I'll bet you could make it an invasion from Grenada and shoot an almost identical script.

Besides new submarines and destroyers, the South Koreans, like the Japanese, are commissioning helicopter-carriers.

"Badmouthing Chinese or Koreans in a very racist way is so abundant that it doesn't even offend people any more, " Prof. Nakano said.

"What China should do is make the North Koreans feel that they have got to stop messing around, " Zhu said.

The South Koreans crossed the finish line first, but after several minutes of discussion among the referees, they were disqualified.

The South Koreans, in particular, were privately furious at Washington for moving the drill at the last minute to the Sea of Japan.

Most Koreans have prominent boney foreheads and short jaws-which do not make for a beautiful face.

South Koreans are cutting down on cosmetic surgery and vacations amid the economic slowdown, news reports and surveys showed Tuesday.

When it comes to getting drunk and eating animals alive, the Koreans (both flavors, North and South) are among the top contenders.

The Americans want the plant to be dismantled. The North Koreans have not made it clear that they are willing to go this far.

As it was, the North Koreans snubbed their only ally, to evident Japanese relief.

North Koreans whom my group approached in parks or at tourist attractions would occasionally spontaneously break out in song.

So reversing the policy and allowing markets to operate more freely may be the only way for many North Koreans to feed themselves.

The price is also rising on corn, and coal, which used by many North Koreans to heat their homes, he said.

The North Koreans also shot off artillery on Friday, after a visit by an American general to the island, called Yeonpyeong.

North Koreans authorised to speak to visitors appear to be oblivious of their guests' annoyance at such privations .

Oh, the North Koreans took the field Tuesday night, and kicked the ball around in suddenly frigid Johannesburg.

She was quite suitable to be a teacher of life to North Koreans.

Yet it took a century for a Japanese leader to admit that colonial rule was imposed against the will of Koreans.

The North Koreans were in Seoul to honor the pioneer of that policy, President Kim Dae-jung, who died last week at 85.

Feeling fully capable of governing themselves, most Koreans initially were against the trusteeship.

South Koreans are cutting down on cosmetic surgery amid the economic slowdown, surveys showed Tuesday.

For South Koreans, Kim Jong Il's health is no matter of petty gossip, but a national security issue of the first order.

Along the upper reaches of the Yalu, North Koreans wash clothes and bathe off the banks.

Those North Koreans who have never crossed the border have no way to make sense of their tribulations.

Sohn's anger was raised by the American ambassador suggesting South Koreans need to be aware of the scientific facts about American beef.

Back in Little Korea, Ms Kim says the flow of Koreans is not one way.

The Koreans also have been pushing a plan to have the IMF work with big central banks and help arrange currency swaps in times of crisis.

As well as promoting a more efficient industry, that will mean weaning Koreans off their gas- guzzlers and improving mass transit.

On the face of it, there seems little reason why 23 million North Koreans should continue to support their "Dear Leader" .

The increased economic interaction with China means that the flow of information to North Koreans is steadily increasing.

In front of the main entrance of the Water Park is a stretch of Korean restaurants. It is one of the places for the Koreans to gather.

South Koreans began to form an image of a bullying and arrogant China.

And, at the moment, it does matter what westerners want (not to mention Taiwanese, Singaporeans and Koreans).

In all, about 500 North Koreans, some waving artificial flowers and flags, bid the ship farewell in a choreographed performance.

Japan insists Dokdo should be called "Takeshima" . The South Koreans insist on the "East Sea" in place of the Sea of Japan.

Q: Some South Koreans can't understand why it is taking China so long to recognize the investigation results of the ROK on the Cheonan ship.

During the year reports suggested that the number of North Koreans in northeastern China declined.

"We've ceded the initiatives to the North Koreans, " he said.

If the North Koreans refuse to allow a US crew to search the ship, the US could order it into the nearest port.

The Pentagon had previously planned, and postponed, a military exercise with the South Koreans in the Yellow Sea off the Korean Peninsula.

Many Koreans suspect that China wants to dominate the peninsula again, as a useful buffer against a more assertive Japan.

Many Koreans today still believe that the United States played a key role in cutting the Korean peninsula in half.

The cables make it clear that the South Koreans believe that internal tensions in the North have reached a boiling point.

Still, what really scares South Koreans is not the North's military but its desperately poor civilian population.

The Koreans are invading the Beijing suburbs, but the city is still the stronghold of the Europeans.

North Koreans from a collective farm work alongside a road close to the border with China in North Pyongan province this April.

Globalisation is not a zero-sum game: Mexicans, Koreans and Poles are not growing at the expense of Americans, Japanese and Germans.

South Koreans spend billions of dollars a year on English instruction for their children.

Midway across the ice, they said, they heard yelling and saw they were being pursued by armed North Koreans.

Last March Free North Korea Radio claimed to have equipped three North Koreans with satellite phones, which offer a lower risk of detection.

'Only the North Koreans could build my statue, ' says Mr. Wade, sitting in a red velvet chair in his palace.

Ethnic Koreans and an underclass known as burakumin are stigmatized.

"When [the North Koreans] say that they view that as an important element, I can say with great sincerity, so do we, " Bosworth said.

It was bought from the owners in 2000 and dismantled on site in a matter of weeks by a team of North Koreans and British engineers.

Like the Japanese and South Koreans before them, Indian and Chinese tycoons want to build global businesses rather than just regional ones.

Such quick and decisive action on the part of the South Koreans should be replicated across other emerging market economies.

We ask several a piece of Koreans whether none of them know why thing it will be the Silicon Valleys of U. S. A.

Where the Japanese and Koreans sorted out the ore and then built the capacity, China wants to do things the other way round.

In a still largely command economy, many North Koreans are left without a safety net against starvation.

U. S. officials had also held informal talks with the North Koreans on Monday, a State Department official said Tuesday.

Mr Maki argues that the bill is popular neither among his constituents nor among the Koreans he knows.

In September of nineteen fifty, Mac Arthur led the UN land and sea attack at Inchon, pushing the North Koreans back across the border.

Only a few hawkish South Koreans think a military response is desirable.

If we do not take significant and effective action against the North Koreans now, we'll spark an arms race in Northeast Asia.

The boat's crew included four South Koreans and three Chinese.

Another sought to convince readers that the removal of the dynasty would lead North Koreans to live 'as happily as South Koreans.

Ideas of racial purity lie at the heart of North Koreans' self-image.

China and Southeast Asia are switching to animal-protein diets as they grow wealthy, as the Koreans did before them.

South Korean intelligence officials interview thousands of North Koreans who defect to the South each year.

Chinese, Filipinos, Asian Indians, Vietnamese, Koreans and Japanese are part of this category.

Exports are robust and unemployment is falling but South Koreans are still grappling with a threat to their wellbeing -- a kimchi crisis.

Many South Koreans see them as proof that the wealthy are held to different standards from those applied to ordinary citizens.

But Koreans do not see themselves as a blank slate, or as a new world power.

There is widespread suspicion among South Koreans that the ship was hit by a North Korean torpedo.

Despite the restrictions, thousands of North Koreans are being exposed to life south of the border.

I was personally involved in the 6-party talks in which China's role was to mediate between the North Koreans and Americans.

As recently as this week in an exhibition with Greece, the North Koreans wore a jersey made by Spanish apparel company Astore.

In Asia, Hong Kongers recycle more than mainland Chinese and Japanese, but far less than South Koreans.

Only Koreans had the legend linking the sun to the golden crow.

As more South Koreans recognise the value of English as the international language, the business of English kindergartens is booming.

The agency announced the move last week, citing a growing number of violations of laws by South Koreans in social-network communication.

It has assassinated members of the South's presidential cabinet and sent commandos to kill South Koreans.

Many South Koreans feared an outbreak of war, and a nationwide civil defense drill was conducted.

Only a little more than 15, 000 North Koreans have made it to a country of 50m.

In the early 1980s, the Japanese and Koreans ran into a problem with the second oil shock.

It has fallen to America to shore him up, reassure South Koreans and send a stern warning to the North's president, Kim Jong Il.

Ordinary Koreans were chivvied to save, not consume. South Korea grew into an exporting powerhouse. Does this sound familiar?

Until recently, those North Koreans who even knew of his existence dared not mention his name.

Now, there may be a reaction (of) North Koreans to that, militarily.

However, we have seen no reports yet that indicate the North Koreans have begun fueling up for launch.

Traders return from China to report that people are richer and comparatively freer, and that South Koreans are supposedly even more so.

During the game, the Lebanon players found it difficult to fend off the attacks from the aggressive Koreans.

I salute the Chinese and the South Koreans. They are your masters in training. Get used to it lazy Americans! You no longer rule the world.

He says remarks like the ones Vershbow made this week are an "insult to all South Koreans. "

To South Koreans the word simply means "subject" .

Dogs are a popular dish in many parts of China, not least among ethnic Koreans in the north-east.

South Koreans in general still dress conservatively in the workplace, with an emphasis on suits and ties among men.

"The South Koreans . . . hope the Olympics will . . . showcase their country's breathtaking economic progress" (Nancy Cooper).

Throw the Chinks, Koreans, and Japs out of Subic and put up a sign saying welcome back home 7th fleet!

These new entrepreneurs are being joined by a growing band of foreigners, including ethnic Koreans from Western countries.

After finishing offering and spend , find that three Koreans eyes are a little unusual .

On occasion we got away from silly politically correct fake countries and fought the North Koreans on our staff exercises and simulations.

He denied he had proposed this levy due to fears the North could suddenly collapse, but to remind South Koreans of future challenges.

As it is, North Koreans need only look to the plunging value of their local currency to realise how fragile their situation is.

It was impossible to ascertain whether the North Koreans had been coached on what to say or how to say it.

Q: Some North Koreans claimed that if repatriated, they would be prosecuted or even sentenced to death.

They are rarely able to speak to the closely watched North Koreans.

If Eriksson says yes, it will see him take the reins in the Koreans' first World Cup finals since reaching the last eight in 1966.

Mr Lee, however, has been among the many South Koreans deeply sceptical about its perceived benefits.

This market is not just busan loved stroll place, south koreans to busan all must come to plunge into the most fresh taste honk sashimi.

The secretary- general comes from a "culture of accountability" , he says. "The South Koreans are serious about governance and controls. "

Despite the retirement of the world's best know female archer Kim Soo-Nyung, the Koreans are a class above the rest of the sport.

After a surge in the won, the Koreans began auditing banks to ensure they were following rules governing foreign-exchange derivatives.

The Koreans came into the market much later.

The surgeries, already popular among Koreans, are booming among newly rich, globally competitive, mainland Chinese, explains Dr Kim.

North Koreans who traveled to Dandong last week for business declined to speak about conditions in their country .

The North Koreans wanted a 'personalized' design for their jersey, including fabrics that were 'off the catalog, ' Mr. Grimaldi recalls.

In November, Pyongyang's troops fired on an island in disputed waters, killing four South Koreans.

One of the 22 South Koreans held hostage in Afghanistan says the group is sick and says their lives are in danger.

Banbury says the food crisis is probably the worst since the late 1990s when an estimated million North Koreans died of hunger.

Harder to deal with, by far, would be to find out that South Koreans are content in their republic.

Individual Work: Students illustrate and write sentences on what Americans, Canadians , Chinese and Koreans typically eat.

Koreans' secret of survival rests largely on their ability to lie, to act irresponsibly, and to be shameless.

Koreans hanging clothes drying rack to dry at home with the Chinese habit of hanging clothes to dry in the sun.

Mr. Richardson said that he was invited by North Koreans whom he had met before, and that he extended an invitation to Mr. Schmidt.

However, with little experience of commercial borrowing, South Koreans struggled to handle the sudden availability of cheap credit.

North Korea has seized hundreds of South Koreans since the Korean war in the early 1950s.

Still, American schoolchildren are unlikely to end up working as hard as the French, let alone the South Koreans, any time soon.

South Koreans who arrive on tour buses are the biggest buyers of the unique brew he makes in clay barrels.

But South Koreans pay some of the highest prices in the world for phones and among the highest for wireless service.

Many South Koreans believe U. S. beef is tainted with the brain-consuming mad cow disease, despite a relative lack of hard scientific data.

South Koreans (both in their homeland and as migrants to America) often convert from Buddhism to Protestantism as they rise economically.

After that, the Koreans hired a Dutch head coach hoping that Korean players could get some "Dutch influence" from him.

North Koreans are somewhat more protected today than they were before the great famine of the mid-1990s, in which perhaps 1m died.

The main feature of Koreans' nationality is group consciousness and patriotism, it reflects the charm of Koreans.

South Koreans routinely defer to people older than themselves, a habit that preserves order but chills interaction and suppresses new ideas.

Tens of thousands of South Koreans take to the streets to oppose a free trade agreement with the US.

It suggested Germans and South Koreans could opt out due to bilateral 'social insurance agreements' with China.

Some Korean tech Web sites had even started to publicly expose famous Koreans who had the gadget in apparent violation of the ban.

This has found it is Russians who most tightly control the display of their emotions, closely followed by the Japanese and South Koreans.

They banned such time-honored traditional folk games of the Koreans as tug-of-war, ssirum (Korean wrestling) and kite flying.

North Koreans certainly struggle to eke out a living, but they are not starving.

North Koreans applauded the historic first performance in their capital by a U. S. symphony orchestra.

Despite the severity of the attack, the mood in Seoul remained composed and South Koreans made their habitual jokes about the "crazy" North.

Trial balloons: Some South Koreans also marked Kim's birthday, though in less forcibly joyous fashion than their neighbors to the north.

Our skirmish went on for 20 minutes; finally an infantry platoon came up behind us and chased the North Koreans into the valley.

Thousands of North Koreans are believed to be hiding in China after escaping their impoverished communist homeland.

Many employers are unwilling to employ North Koreans, whom they consider backward, leaving many to subsist on government largesse.

Q: Did the Chinese security guard enter the South Korean Embassy to take the North Koreans out of the embassy?

Wherever you see a "No Tipping" sign, don't tip. Koreans find that if you tip, then it will be offensive.

Those who have saved in foreign currencies -- which, though not illegal, is difficult for ordinary North Koreans -- would appear unaffected.

But before taking their purchases home, the North Koreans scrub off any markings that show where they were made.

North Korea also says its military is repealing safety guarantees for South Koreans crossing the heavily-militarized land border.

The UAE went back to the Koreans and is in advanced talks.

She says it's odd that while North Koreans are starving to death, people here strive to be slim.

Although many South Koreans dismiss the risk of open conflict, Miss Yoon's fears have been echoed across Seoul.

Japanese and Koreans were the second and third most pessimistic consumers, bucking optimism in the rest of Asia.

The genealogy of the royal family is also disputed. Koreans claims that the founder Da Zuorong was a Goguryeo.

Some more violent comments suggested that "South Koreans should die" over the incident.

That too was an alien concept to North Koreans.

People often ask me whether we ever got the chance to talk with regular North Koreans. The answer is no.

The North Koreans obviously used the journalists as a bargaining chip and now they want a gesture in return.

However, the fund learnt that lesson within a month, urging the Koreans to ignore the fund's own fiscal conditions.

Indonesias Foreign Ministry says five North Koreans have entered the Indonesian embassy in Vietnam, apparently in a bid to seek asylum.

North Koreans have turned to the market out of sheer desperation.

But for all the tighter controls imposed by the North Koreans and Chinese, there are still ways of slipping through the cracks.

The trick will be to not to repeat mistakes made by the Germans, British, Japanese and Koreans.

Mr Hyun said Seoul would focus on making preparations for unification while working to improve welfare for ordinary North Koreans.

According to social status, Koreans used to dress differently, making clothing an important mark of social rank.

A contact in Asia informed him that the North Koreans had struck a deal with Legea SRL, an Italian company.

But many Koreans will feel a deeper sense of solidarity in watching the World Cup.

South Koreans live with the very real possibility they could find themselves in a major war with the neighbours.

And many parlours are run by Japanese Koreans, some of whom are said to evade taxes and divert funds to North Korea.

Once that happens, Koreans will have even more incentive to travel abroad and the current account will come under even greater strain.

The Justice Ministry's measure will block South Koreans from accessing social networking-site accounts linked to North Korea.

But even in police states, people must eat -- and markets feed North Koreans while lining the pockets of the elite.

So dependent are they on its favour that North Koreans have become accustomed to policing themselves.

Tensions further escalated with the bombardment of Yeonpyeong, which killed four South Koreans.

Pundits lambasted President Lee Myung-bak for suggesting that Koreans try eating cheaper North American cabbage.

Koreans are emotional consumers. The Chinese are more practical, prioritizing scientific and dermatological testing.

Most of the North Koreans we spoke with said they were fleeing poverty and food shortages.

However, a few South Koreans travelled to Pyongyang privately before the funeral.

Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew described North Koreans as 'psychopathic types' ruled by a 'flabby old chap. '

Tens of thousands of South Koreans filled Seoul today to protest beef imports from the US.

They think the Chinese or Japanese or Koreans, as the case may be, feel a greater affinity for Americans of their own ethnic background.

But many South Koreans assume that he continues to exercise influence over the chaebol.

Joe: Yes. We were also worried about the Koreans and found that they did increase output by fifteen percent.

Though complete victory eluded us, I am glad to have aided many South Koreans in their flight from Kim Il-sung.

Bali has also benefited from an upswing in regional travel by Asians, including Japanese, South Koreans and increasingly Chinese.

Seong says she was really surprised that many South Koreans diet.

So while ballistic missile tests and nuclear explosions matter , killing South Koreans appears to rank lower .

The South Koreans even considered commercial inducements to China, according to the American ambassador to Seoul.

Mr. Levey also said that any foreign entities conducting business with the sanctioned North Koreans could also face U. S. penalties.

In addition to Koreans. Some Asian husbands and wives do not share the same family names.

Some organizations have interesting discussions with the North Koreans.

South Korea berated North Korea for "provocative behaviour" (our picture shows South Koreans watching a rerun of the 1998 launch).

Due to some historical reasons and some objective causes, the Koreans turned to this extreme form of rebellion.

He says the hundreds of thousands who have joined the candlelight protests in Seoul have probably never lifted a candle for North Koreans.

North Koreans stroll along the Taedong River in Pyongyang, North Korea.

South Koreans and Japanese reportedly survive on an hour's less sleep than the French.