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Kim Young-sam, former president of South Korea, dies

November 28, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

AP Wire Service By Hyung-jin Kim SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Former President Kim Young-sam, who formally ended decades of military rule in South Korea and accepted a massive international bailout during the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis, died Nov. 22. He was 87. The chief of Seoul National University Hospital, Oh Byung-Hee, announced Kim’s death […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2015, Chun Doo-hwan, Former President Kim Young-sam, Geoge Island, International Monetary Fund, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, Korean War, Koreas South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, North Korean, President Park Chung-hee, Roh Tae-woo, Seoul National University Hospital, South Koreans, Syngman Rhee, United States, Vol 34 No 49 | November 28 - December 4

Meet the father of the kung fu flick

December 21, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff KOREAM JOURNAL New America Media In the early 1970s, before Bruce Lee popularized the martial arts genre and before English overdubs became so easy to mock, the first kung fu film to hit it big in the West was “Five Fingers of Death,” by Korean director Chung Chang-wha. The cult classic is on […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2012, American Western, Chinese, Chun Doo-hwan, Chung Chang-wha, Hong Kong, Im Kwon-taek, King Boxer, Korean War, La Jolla, North Korean, Run Run Shaw, San Diego Asian Film Festival, Shaw Brothers Studio, South Korean President Park Chung-hee, Special Agent X-7, Vol 31 No 52 | December 22 - December 28

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