2005-2162 The Buddha’s birthday illuminates Seoul
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CONTENTS<br />
May 2009<br />
VOL. 9 / NO. 5<br />
6 22 52<br />
35<br />
Cover Photo<br />
Paper alnterns in the<br />
Sangdoseonwon<br />
Temple.<br />
Photo by JoongAng Ilbo<br />
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06<br />
Cover Story<br />
• <strong>Buddha’s</strong> Birthday festivities illuminate <strong>Seoul</strong><br />
12 Diplomacy<br />
• G-20 nations to cooperate for economic recovery<br />
16<br />
20<br />
Global Korea<br />
• Joint technical training center opens in Guatemalan<br />
capital<br />
• Charity’s hiking dentists save Himalayan mouths<br />
• Korean experts build water system in Ethiopia<br />
• <strong>The</strong> Korean Wave roars along the old Silk Road.<br />
Green Growth<br />
• Fresh wind blows in Seokbo<br />
• One powerful little flower<br />
22 Culture<br />
• Songs from the Korean soul to the world’s ears<br />
• Updating a moving musical tradition<br />
• Art as fraud, art as history:<br />
Kang Ik-joong’s child-world<br />
30<br />
Korean Literature<br />
• Hwang Seok-yeong: A life of struggle<br />
against injustice<br />
34 Book<br />
• Seeing Buddha in Korean eyes<br />
35<br />
40<br />
Human Story<br />
• A buried love resurfaces at last<br />
Korea through the Lens<br />
• First Ladies, Dance with Drums, spring and<br />
sprays in the subway...<br />
44 Travel<br />
• Ascension from the sea<br />
48<br />
Series: Strategies for Growth<br />
• Blueprint for final success in world content<br />
market<br />
51<br />
Hidden Champion<br />
• Staying on top of fabric takes latest technology<br />
52 Sports<br />
• Sellout crowds for KBO on opening day<br />
• Korea’s girl of many firsts<br />
• A traveling festival to sell Koreans on biking<br />
for work and pleasure<br />
58 Design<br />
• A new eco-friendly era begins at Korean<br />
carmakers<br />
62 People<br />
• Literature: the key to understanding<br />
• Grappling with abuse on film<br />
• A man and his Old Partner<br />
66<br />
Foreign Viewpoints<br />
• John M. Frankl: Back to a life of many cultures<br />
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