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...those made during the 1950s as well. Young South Korean directors like edgy stories of violence and sex. Im is of a more mature school, preferring graceful period pieces, produced with Akira Kurosawa-style attention to costume and scenery and marked by a peculiarly Korean form of sadness called han. Shaped by countless foreign invasions and Korea's ensuing sense of rage and helplessness, han permeates Im's movies. The protagonist in Chihwaseon is a painter who realizes he can only create masterpieces when he is drunk. Even then, he is too emotionally deadened to enjoy the beauty of what...
...worries that han and other cornerstones of the modern Korean ethos are slipping away as the nation speeds into the Internet age and replaces wooden temples with concrete office blocks. Mindful of old traditions, he uses ancient Chinese characters in his movie titles instead of the more modern Korean phonetic alphabet. "My goal for making movies is to teach the world about Korea," says Im, sitting in his spartan office surrounded by local film awards and stacked cardboard boxes. "But I also want to teach my own countrymen about their own history...
...Meserole ’02, Kathy Lu ’02, David D. Kornhaber ’02, John N. Friedman ’02, Benton B. Bodamer ’02, Margaret W. Elias ’02, Pavan K. Bendapudi ’02 and Jean C. Han ’02, of Lowell House...
...integrating minorities, but it hasn't happened fast enough to counter the lure of a figure like Fortuyn. First- and second-generation foreign-born amount to about 17% of the Dutch population, roughly the same as in other West European countries and the U.S., says Erasmus migration expert Han Entzinger. In Rotterdam itself, the figure rises to 45%, and in some neighborhoods - and many schools - it is much higher. To promote integration, the Netherlands in 1998 began requiring new immigrants to take mandatory Dutch lessons. As asylum seekers choose other destinations, their annual rate of entry to the Netherlands...
...Han, who is also a Crimson editor, will spend a month this summer in northern Manitoba to research how dams built in the region have caused ecological damage and unemployment...