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Released 23rd Nov 01Casts 김희선 Kim Hee Seon 주진모 Ju Jin Mo 조승우 Jo Seung Woo Watched VCD on 15th May 05Trailer mms vod hani co kr cine21 multi trailer v w wini asfReview Wanee and Junah a couple in their mid twenties are living together Wanee is an animator and Junah wishes to make his debut as a scriptwriter in the movie Their love stays mutual but seems tainted with a hint of loneliness One day when Wanee learns that her younger brother Youngmin will return home she falls back into the past she wants to forget Then a young woman named Soyang who was close friends with Youngmin and Wanee during high school visits Wanee s home out of the blue By the visit of Soyang Junah becomes aware of the feelings Wanee has for Youngmin Wanee s affection for her half brother Youngmin had grown through their whole adolescence However after both of them realized that their intense feelings for each other Youngmin struggled with the reality of their unattainable love and left Upon discovering Wanee s aching first love and the reason why they ve become distant Junah leaves Wanee for a while to her own discretion instead of urging her to get over all the memories Released 23rd Nov 01Casts 김희선 Kim Hee Seon 주진모 Ju Jin Mo 조승우 Jo Seung Woo Watched VCD on 15th May 05Trailer mms vod hani co kr cine21 multi trailer v w wini asfReview Wanee and Junah a couple in their mid twenties are living together Wanee is an animator and Junah wishes to make his debut as a scriptwriter in the movie Their love stays mutual but seems tainted with a hint of loneliness One day when Wanee learns that her younger brother Youngmin will return home she falls back into the past she wants to forget Then a young woman named Soyang who was close friends with Youngmin and Wanee during high school visits Wanee s home out of the blue By the visit of Soyang Junah becomes aware of the feelings Wanee has for Youngmin Wanee s affection for her half brother Youngmin had grown through their whole adolescence However after both of them realized that their intense feelings for each other Youngmin struggled with the reality of their unattainable love and left Upon discovering Wanee s aching first love and the reason why they ve become distant Junah leaves Wanee for a while to her own discretion instead of urging her to get over all the memories

모ë°"일 골ë"œëŸ¬ì‹œë¥¼ ë›°ëŠ" 사람ë"¤ 앱스토어 하루 1위 하면 최고 3000만원 번다Individual programmers who see their app hit the top spot for a day can look forward to as much as 30 million won $24 000 in earnings When gold was accidentally found in California in 1848 people from all over the country came with dreams of riches Today a similar if virtual gold rush is taking place on Korean mobile devices as software developers watch smartphone sales balloon upward In Korea 700 000 iPhones have been sold with high expectations for the 4 model set to debut in July That s a lot of potential sales for downloadable applications and countless developers jostle for sales on Apple s App Store or Google s Android Marketplace Most of these programmers work alone or in very small groups and some have found success though most haven t In a survey of 150 000 users of the Samsung Galaxy A smartphone 80 percent had the experience of downloading apps from the store said SK Telecom mobile network operations team leader Park Jung min The Galaxy A is based on Google s Android operating system As sales rise the Android market will be more energetic Park predicted Recently SK Telecom held the T Store Android App Contest and most of the winners were created by lone programmers Hi Road which won the grand prize combined GPS locating software with augmented reality technology The user can position the phone s camera anywhere on the street and get directions to the nearest bus and subway stations with schedules The developers worked at a mobile solution company called Feelingk Currently we only serve Seoul and Gyeonggi but we plan to expand our coverage nationally said Yoon Soon bok one of the developers Since it is a free app we cannot expect immediate profits but we will try to link advertisements Feelingk s other entrants also saw promising results Earth Album shows photos and information on different areas on Google Maps while Convenience Store Mania 24 finds nearby convenience stores Feelingk has already started a new app team to take advantage of these innovations Kim Jae cheol who won the gold prize for an application called BlToo Matgo works at AIA Insurance His app is a version of Go Stop a traditional Korean card game played over a Bluetooth network Playing games with people that you know multiplies the fun compared to playing against the computer or strangers said Kim Even students are participating in the mobile gold rush Lee Hee deok of Soongsil University along with Park Jong guk and Yoon Mi young developed an app that finds discount stores called Finding Discount Lee who has studied mobile applications since he was a high school student said Since people seem to like our app I am hoping for good results Some developers are still in high school Park Young hoon developed the smash hit Seoul Bus application for Android Park is a friend of Yoo Joo wan who found success with the same app on Apple s App Store In all 11 of the 28 teams that won honors in SK s contest consisted of students Another brilliant idea that didn t gain as much recognition was Seoul Haiewuso Shin Jin seok Yoon Ji hwan and Kim Ga hyeon of Inpion Consulting developed the app which displays nearby public restrooms This is a great app for true emergencies said Kim The Small Medium Business Administration recently announced a plan to promote 10 000 individual companies and many of them may end up being mobile software developers According to the National IT Industry Promotion Agency the size of the domestic software market was $16 3 billion in 2007 but grew to just $18 6 billion in 2009 very little compared to an annual average of 470 percent annual growth in the global mobile application market Expectations are still high for domestic app stores however Apple s App Store which opened two years before Android Marketplace is already home to many star Korean developers Byeon Hye joon s Heavy Mach which was posted on the app store in March 2009 ranked fifth of all paid apps in the U S store Choi Kang woo s Cartoon Wars introduced in July was the most popular paid application in North America in August The follow up Cartoon Wars Gunner continued Choi s streak in the top spot Awesome Note which has both memo and scheduling functions was a hit in the productivity category Asked for his secret its developer Baek Seung chan said Only perfection through constant preparation can result in success With 50 million smartphone users worldwide estimates show that some developers may earn as much as $1 million a year if their application can stay in one of the top spots First place for a day can mean up to 30 million won $24 000 in earnings Even with the 30 percent fee taken by Apple this is a fortune for an individual Com2us a mobile game developer racked up more than 2 billion won in App Store sales last year after developing the popular Homerun Battle 3 D along with nine other games Apple s store with more than 200 000 apps has exceeded quarterly sales of $100 million The Android market has 50 000 apps and sales of about 10 percent the App Store s still nothing to sneeze at though it hopes to surpass Apple by next year Of course big opportunities to make money mean Korea s large software corporations aren t far behind the indie coders Overseas most of the top 10 App Store programs are from big names such as Electronic Arts Park Seong seo who runs a developer s community called Android Pub said Only the bright stories are told and failures are usually hidden Hitting the jackpot with a creative idea is getting harder By Kim Chang woo seungjung joongang co kr Related Korean Article 모ë°"일 골ë"œëŸ¬ì‹œë¥¼ ë›°ëŠ" 사람ë"¤ 1848ë…„ 미국 캘리포니아의 새크라멘토 ê°• 근처에서 제재소를 하던 ì¡´ 서터ëŠ" 우연히 금을 발견했다 이 소식이 전국에 퍼지자 이ë"¬í•´ì¸ 1849년에ëŠ" 8만여 명이 금을 찾아 캘리포니아로 몰려ë"¤ì—ˆë‹¤ 49년도의 사람ë"¤ì´ë¼ëŠ" 뜻의 샌í"„란시스ì½"의 í"„ë¡œ 미식축구팀 포티나이너스 49ers ëŠ" 여기서 유래된 이름이다 인구가 급증하면서 캘리포니아ëŠ" 1850년에 정식 주로 승격했다 1853년에ëŠ" 이주자 수가 25만 명에 달했다 골ë"œëŸ¬ì‹œëŠ" 금이 고갈되면서 급격히 사그라ë"¤ì—ˆì§€ë§Œ 미국 서부 발전의 원동력이 됐다 하이로ë"œ 개발팀인 필링크 김형배ì"¨ 윤하리 부장 윤순복 과장 사진 왼쪽부터 1 에게만 íŒ"아도 매출 1500만원 아이폰과 안ë"œë¡œì´ë"œí°ì´ 본격적으로 세력을 ë„"혀가면서 국내에서도 모ë°"일 골ë"œëŸ¬ì‹œ ê°€ ì‹œìž'됐다 아이폰은 국내에서 70만 대 이상 íŒ"렸다 8일 ë°œí'œë˜ëŠ" 아이폰 ì‹ ì œí'ˆê¹Œì§€ 감안하면 국내에서 아이폰 100만 대 시대가 멀지 않았다 아이폰 보급이 늘면서 앱스토어에 도전하ëŠ" êµ­ë‚´ 개발자도 늘고 있다 특히 개인 개발자나 1인 기업에 앱스토어ëŠ" 새로운 시장이 되고 있다 이미 대박을 터뜨린 한국인 개인 개발자가 ë"œë¬¼ì§€ 않다 아이폰에 이어 지난달부터ëŠ" êµ­ì‚° 안ë"œë¡œì´ë"œí°ì´ 잇ë"°ë¼ ë"±ìž¥í–ˆë‹¤ 박정민 SKí…"레콤 MNO팀장은 15만 명의 갤럭시A 가입자를 대상으로 조사한 ê²°ê³¼ 80 ê°€ 각종 앱을 내려받은 것으로 나타났다 ë©° 단말기 판매가 늘수록 안ë"œë¡œì´ë"œ 마ì¼"도 활기를 띨 것 이라고 말했다 한글 기사 보기 Copyrights â"' JoongangIlbo Joins com All rights reserved 모ë°"일 골ë"œëŸ¬ì‹œë¥¼ ë›°ëŠ" 사람ë"¤ 앱스토어 하루 1위 하면 최고 3000만원 번다Individual programmers who see their app hit the top spot for a day can look forward to as much as 30 million won $24 000 in earnings When gold was accidentally found in California in 1848 people from all over the country came with dreams of riches Today a similar if virtual gold rush is taking place on Korean mobile devices as software developers watch smartphone sales balloon upward In Korea 700 000 iPhones have been sold with high expectations for the 4 model set to debut in July That s a lot of potential sales for downloadable applications and countless developers jostle for sales on Apple s App Store or Google s Android Marketplace Most of these programmers work alone or in very small groups and some have found success though most haven t In a survey of 150 000 users of the Samsung Galaxy A smartphone 80 percent had the experience of downloading apps from the store said SK Telecom mobile network operations team leader Park Jung min The Galaxy A is based on Google s Android operating system As sales rise the Android market will be more energetic Park predicted Recently SK Telecom held the T Store Android App Contest and most of the winners were created by lone programmers Hi Road which won the grand prize combined GPS locating software with augmented reality technology The user can position the phone s camera anywhere on the street and get directions to the nearest bus and subway stations with schedules The developers worked at a mobile solution company called Feelingk Currently we only serve Seoul and Gyeonggi but we plan to expand our coverage nationally said Yoon Soon bok one of the developers Since it is a free app we cannot expect immediate profits but we will try to link advertisements Feelingk s other entrants also saw promising results Earth Album shows photos and information on different areas on Google Maps while Convenience Store Mania 24 finds nearby convenience stores Feelingk has already started a new app team to take advantage of these innovations Kim Jae cheol who won the gold prize for an application called BlToo Matgo works at AIA Insurance His app is a version of Go Stop a traditional Korean card game played over a Bluetooth network Playing games with people that you know multiplies the fun compared to playing against the computer or strangers said Kim Even students are participating in the mobile gold rush Lee Hee deok of Soongsil University along with Park Jong guk and Yoon Mi young developed an app that finds discount stores called Finding Discount Lee who has studied mobile applications since he was a high school student said Since people seem to like our app I am hoping for good results Some developers are still in high school Park Young hoon developed the smash hit Seoul Bus application for Android Park is a friend of Yoo Joo wan who found success with the same app on Apple s App Store In all 11 of the 28 teams that won honors in SK s contest consisted of students Another brilliant idea that didn t gain as much recognition was Seoul Haiewuso Shin Jin seok Yoon Ji hwan and Kim Ga hyeon of Inpion Consulting developed the app which displays nearby public restrooms This is a great app for true emergencies said Kim The Small Medium Business Administration recently announced a plan to promote 10 000 individual companies and many of them may end up being mobile software developers According to the National IT Industry Promotion Agency the size of the domestic software market was $16 3 billion in 2007 but grew to just $18 6 billion in 2009 very little compared to an annual average of 470 percent annual growth in the global mobile application market Expectations are still high for domestic app stores however Apple s App Store which opened two years before Android Marketplace is already home to many star Korean developers Byeon Hye joon s Heavy Mach which was posted on the app store in March 2009 ranked fifth of all paid apps in the U S store Choi Kang woo s Cartoon Wars introduced in July was the most popular paid application in North America in August The follow up Cartoon Wars Gunner continued Choi s streak in the top spot Awesome Note which has both memo and scheduling functions was a hit in the productivity category Asked for his secret its developer Baek Seung chan said Only perfection through constant preparation can result in success With 50 million smartphone users worldwide estimates show that some developers may earn as much as $1 million a year if their application can stay in one of the top spots First place for a day can mean up to 30 million won $24 000 in earnings Even with the 30 percent fee taken by Apple this is a fortune for an individual Com2us a mobile game developer racked up more than 2 billion won in App Store sales last year after developing the popular Homerun Battle 3 D along with nine other games Apple s store with more than 200 000 apps has exceeded quarterly sales of $100 million The Android market has 50 000 apps and sales of about 10 percent the App Store s still nothing to sneeze at though it hopes to surpass Apple by next year Of course big opportunities to make money mean Korea s large software corporations aren t far behind the indie coders Overseas most of the top 10 App Store programs are from big names such as Electronic Arts Park Seong seo who runs a developer s community called Android Pub said Only the bright stories are told and failures are usually hidden Hitting the jackpot with a creative idea is getting harder By Kim Chang woo seungjung joongang co kr Related Korean Article 모ë°"일 골ë"œëŸ¬ì‹œë¥¼ ë›°ëŠ" 사람ë"¤ 1848ë…„ 미국 캘리포니아의 새크라멘토 ê°• 근처에서 제재소를 하던 ì¡´ 서터ëŠ" 우연히 금을 발견했다 이 소식이 전국에 퍼지자 이ë"¬í•´ì¸ 1849년에ëŠ" 8만여 명이 금을 찾아 캘리포니아로 몰려ë"¤ì—ˆë‹¤ 49년도의 사람ë"¤ì´ë¼ëŠ" 뜻의 샌í"„란시스ì½"의 í"„ë¡œ 미식축구팀 포티나이너스 49ers ëŠ" 여기서 유래된 이름이다 인구가 급증하면서 캘리포니아ëŠ" 1850년에 정식 주로 승격했다 1853년에ëŠ" 이주자 수가 25만 명에 달했다 골ë"œëŸ¬ì‹œëŠ" 금이 고갈되면서 급격히 사그라ë"¤ì—ˆì§€ë§Œ 미국 서부 발전의 원동력이 됐다 하이로ë"œ 개발팀인 필링크 김형배ì"¨ 윤하리 부장 윤순복 과장 사진 왼쪽부터 1 에게만 íŒ"아도 매출 1500만원 아이폰과 안ë"œë¡œì´ë"œí°ì´ 본격적으로 세력을 ë„"혀가면서 국내에서도 모ë°"일 골ë"œëŸ¬ì‹œ ê°€ ì‹œìž'됐다 아이폰은 국내에서 70만 대 이상 íŒ"렸다 8일 ë°œí'œë˜ëŠ" 아이폰 ì‹ ì œí'ˆê¹Œì§€ 감안하면 국내에서 아이폰 100만 대 시대가 멀지 않았다 아이폰 보급이 늘면서 앱스토어에 도전하ëŠ" êµ­ë‚´ 개발자도 늘고 있다 특히 개인 개발자나 1인 기업에 앱스토어ëŠ" 새로운 시장이 되고 있다 이미 대박을 터뜨린 한국인 개인 개발자가 ë"œë¬¼ì§€ 않다 아이폰에 이어 지난달부터ëŠ" êµ­ì‚° 안ë"œë¡œì´ë"œí°ì´ 잇ë"°ë¼ ë"±ìž¥í–ˆë‹¤ 박정민 SKí…"레콤 MNO팀장은 15만 명의 갤럭시A 가입자를 대상으로 조사한 ê²°ê³¼ 80 ê°€ 각종 앱을 내려받은 것으로 나타났다 ë©° 단말기 판매가 늘수록 안ë"œë¡œì´ë"œ 마ì¼"도 활기를 띨 것 이라고 말했다 한글 기사 보기 Copyrights â"' JoongangIlbo Joins com All rights reserved

ONE OF MANY In South Korea s season of scandal belly dancer Ahn Yoo jin foreground is accused by prosecutors of padding her educational record to get a teaching job Competition for survival has become ruthless and morality disregarded one expert says내눈에ëŠ" 한국선거운동원 같이 보이ëŠ"데 한국민ë"¤ì´ 저질인가 출마자가 저질인가 L A 신문의 사진입니다 한국에서 제일큰 회사 삼성이 신문사 검사 정치가에 줄 뇌물조직단을만ë"¤ì—ˆë‹¤ê³  이 신문 기사이었다 명문대학이 입학시험을조ìž'하고 청와대 간부 ë³€ì"¨ì™€ 불교스님이 í•©ìž'하여 ì‹ ì •ì•„ 아줌마가 교수가되고 í•œí™"구룹회장이 ì•„ë"¤ 분í'€ì´ë¡œ 쇠 파이í"„ë¡œ 매질하ëŠ" 사건 현대회장의$ 100 million 뇌물로 3년형에서 일찍 누구의 덕으로 나오ëŠ" 부정이 매일 나타나ëŠ" 한국이라고 글을썼다 Los Angeles Times Staff Writer By Bruce Wallace November 30 2007 Cutting corners appears to be pervasive in the hard charging society SEOUL In what has become South Korea s autumn of scandal it sometimes seems no one is immune from accusations of impropriety The top executives at Samsung the country s biggest company are alleged to have created a bribery network whose tentacles snared politicians and prosecutors professors and journalists The front runner for president is campaigning beneath the dagger of possible fraud charges Elite schools are reeling under allegations of fixed entrance exams And from the upper echelons of the art world to Buddhist temples South Korean personalities are being ignominiously exposed for having faked their academic credentials to get ahead If there was a moment that illustrated the pervasiveness of the scandals now roiling South Korea it came with the indictment this month of Ahn Yoo jin accused by prosecutors of inflating her educational record in order to land a teaching job at a college Ahn is a professional belly dancer Competition for survival has become ruthless and morality disregarded says Kim Mun cho a Korea University sociologist In the competition to be ahead of others people resort to any means available resulting in corruption Some blame the tendency to shave corners on a cutthroat mentality that developed in the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis which shook Koreans faith in an ever expanding economy Others contend that South Korea has never shaken off the mutual back scratching culture of a small society where the establishment has tight personal connections forged by blood school or regional ties And some suggest that Korean society simply has an unhealthy obsession with success Living an ordinary life is not regarded as being successful and staying still economically is seen as an unbearable retrogression Kim says Korean society demands overachievement Whatever the reason Koreans picking up a newspaper or turning on TV news these days are confronted with seemingly endless stories of bribery and cheating influence peddling and corruption Scandals have always been a hallmark of South Korea s presidential elections and the campaign that officially began this week for the Dec 19 vote is no exception A former business partner of Lee Myun bak the front runner was extradited to South Korea this month from Los Angeles amid speculation he would incriminate the candidate in the alleged money laundering and stock manipulation that brought down their financial services company Prosecutors are expected to decide next week whether to take action Meanwhile the country s top official at the National Tax Service is under arrest on charges that he took $66 000 in cash from one of his deputies as part of a kickback scheme And a Seoul court is hearing evidence against Byeon Yang kyoon President Roh Moo hyun s former top policy advisor Byeon is accused of using his influence to have a female friend hired at a Buddhist university as a professor of Western art history He has argued that he did not know she had apparently faked her university credentials The woman Shin Jeong ah was curator of a Seoul museum and co director of the Gwangju Biennale the country s premier art event Now she has been indicted for allegedly enhancing her academic record including claiming a nonexistent doctorate from Yale University The notoriety of Shin s alleged academic fictions during the summer triggered a deluge of similar embarrassing confessions Among those accused of lying about their educational qualifications are a highly successful Buddhist monk a prominent architect a comic book artist and belly dancer Ahn whose television appearances stage performances and chain of schools called Belly Korea had made her a minor celebrity Education is the top priority in South Korea it gives a person a sense of pride says Choi Hyang ok an administrator at one of Belly Korea s schools where she says the prevailing mood is that Ahn was a victim of jealous rivals That s why many people wonder Should I exaggerate my credentials if I can Ahn s resume transgressions are small stuff however next to the allegations of comprehensive corruption made against the Samsung Group a corporate behemoth with interests ranging from electronics to construction and shipbuilding According to the company s former top lawyer for seven years until 2004 Samsung has crafted a network of bribery that extends to the judiciary government tax and finance officials academia and the media The attorney Kim Yong chol described a system in which cash was handed over in briefcases or disguised to look like books or CD cases Shielding himself behind a respected organization of Roman Catholic priests Kim told a nationally televised news conference from a Seoul church that even the country s top prosecutors were on Samsung s payroll The list included the government s nominee for chief prosecutor and the head of the national commission looking into corruption he said All have denied the charges with Samsung denouncing Kim s allegations as malicious But the company s problems deepened when a former anti corruption advisor to President Roh came forward to say he had been a target of a Samsung bribe Lee Yong chul said that a Samsung executive tried to bribe him in 2004 the roughly $5 000 in cash offered in a package disguised to look like a book Lee said he refused the money Last week the South Korean parliament passed a bill calling on Roh to appoint an independent investigator to look into the allegations against Samsung Roh s critics worried he might veto the measure fearing that a wide ranging investigation of Samsung could reveal unseemly financial links between the company and his own 2002 campaign for president But this week he bowed to public pressure and accepted the appointment of the prosecutor I think the bill has many problems both legally and politically Roh said at a news conference in Seoul denying that he accepted congratulatory money from Samsung But he said he did not have the political support to veto the bill and had decided people want to know the truth of the allegations implicating the nation s largest conglomerate Few South Koreans seemed overly shocked that one of the country s mammoth business conglomerates known as chaebols would try to bribe public officials or woo allies in the media with cash and gifts South Korea s chaebols were built on intimate ties with military governments of the 1960s and have long records of being tainted by corruption In February Chung Mong koo chairman of Hyundai Motor Co was convicted of embezzling more than $100 million from the company to create a slush fund that prosecutors said was used for bribery Chung received a three year prison term but his sentence was commuted to community service when the court ruled that his incarceration would have too detrimental an impact on the South Korean economy What instead has surprised people is the increasing willingness of whistle blowers to step forward with detailed allegations against the most powerful people in South Korean society It s the first initiative that s difficult to make says Father Kim In kook of the Catholic Priests Assn for Justice an organization respected for its role in opposing the authoritarianism of dictator Park Chung hee in the 1970s The priest says whistle blower Kim Yong chol came to the church group for protection after other organizations shied away from taking on Samsung There are many people who suffered because of Samsung s corruption and injustice and who could not speak out because they felt weak as an individual Father Kim says Now that two people have come out with courage others might feel encouraged to give witness and make a better society Some observers see a sign of evolution in the scandals airing Most people believed or suspected this sort of thing was always going on and took it for granted says Lee Ji soo of the Center for Good Corporate Governance in Seoul The difference this time is that someone has come forward to speak out against it and there are more people prepared to say that this is not acceptable There is a generational divide in Korea Lee says And the younger generation is saying that Korea can t move forward unless we overcome that old way of thinking to become a more transparent society ONE OF MANY In South Korea s season of scandal belly dancer Ahn Yoo jin foreground is accused by prosecutors of padding her educational record to get a teaching job Competition for survival has become ruthless and morality disregarded one expert says내눈에ëŠ" 한국선거운동원 같이 보이ëŠ"데 한국민ë"¤ì´ 저질인가 출마자가 저질인가 L A 신문의 사진입니다 한국에서 제일큰 회사 삼성이 신문사 검사 정치가에 줄 뇌물조직단을만ë"¤ì—ˆë‹¤ê³  이 신문 기사이었다 명문대학이 입학시험을조ìž'하고 청와대 간부 ë³€ì"¨ì™€ 불교스님이 í•©ìž'하여 ì‹ ì •ì•„ 아줌마가 교수가되고 í•œí™"구룹회장이 ì•„ë"¤ 분í'€ì´ë¡œ 쇠 파이í"„ë¡œ 매질하ëŠ" 사건 현대회장의$ 100 million 뇌물로 3년형에서 일찍 누구의 덕으로 나오ëŠ" 부정이 매일 나타나ëŠ" 한국이라고 글을썼다 Los Angeles Times Staff Writer By Bruce Wallace November 30 2007 Cutting corners appears to be pervasive in the hard charging society SEOUL In what has become South Korea s autumn of scandal it sometimes seems no one is immune from accusations of impropriety The top executives at Samsung the country s biggest company are alleged to have created a bribery network whose tentacles snared politicians and prosecutors professors and journalists The front runner for president is campaigning beneath the dagger of possible fraud charges Elite schools are reeling under allegations of fixed entrance exams And from the upper echelons of the art world to Buddhist temples South Korean personalities are being ignominiously exposed for having faked their academic credentials to get ahead If there was a moment that illustrated the pervasiveness of the scandals now roiling South Korea it came with the indictment this month of Ahn Yoo jin accused by prosecutors of inflating her educational record in order to land a teaching job at a college Ahn is a professional belly dancer Competition for survival has become ruthless and morality disregarded says Kim Mun cho a Korea University sociologist In the competition to be ahead of others people resort to any means available resulting in corruption Some blame the tendency to shave corners on a cutthroat mentality that developed in the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis which shook Koreans faith in an ever expanding economy Others contend that South Korea has never shaken off the mutual back scratching culture of a small society where the establishment has tight personal connections forged by blood school or regional ties And some suggest that Korean society simply has an unhealthy obsession with success Living an ordinary life is not regarded as being successful and staying still economically is seen as an unbearable retrogression Kim says Korean society demands overachievement Whatever the reason Koreans picking up a newspaper or turning on TV news these days are confronted with seemingly endless stories of bribery and cheating influence peddling and corruption Scandals have always been a hallmark of South Korea s presidential elections and the campaign that officially began this week for the Dec 19 vote is no exception A former business partner of Lee Myun bak the front runner was extradited to South Korea this month from Los Angeles amid speculation he would incriminate the candidate in the alleged money laundering and stock manipulation that brought down their financial services company Prosecutors are expected to decide next week whether to take action Meanwhile the country s top official at the National Tax Service is under arrest on charges that he took $66 000 in cash from one of his deputies as part of a kickback scheme And a Seoul court is hearing evidence against Byeon Yang kyoon President Roh Moo hyun s former top policy advisor Byeon is accused of using his influence to have a female friend hired at a Buddhist university as a professor of Western art history He has argued that he did not know she had apparently faked her university credentials The woman Shin Jeong ah was curator of a Seoul museum and co director of the Gwangju Biennale the country s premier art event Now she has been indicted for allegedly enhancing her academic record including claiming a nonexistent doctorate from Yale University The notoriety of Shin s alleged academic fictions during the summer triggered a deluge of similar embarrassing confessions Among those accused of lying about their educational qualifications are a highly successful Buddhist monk a prominent architect a comic book artist and belly dancer Ahn whose television appearances stage performances and chain of schools called Belly Korea had made her a minor celebrity Education is the top priority in South Korea it gives a person a sense of pride says Choi Hyang ok an administrator at one of Belly Korea s schools where she says the prevailing mood is that Ahn was a victim of jealous rivals That s why many people wonder Should I exaggerate my credentials if I can Ahn s resume transgressions are small stuff however next to the allegations of comprehensive corruption made against the Samsung Group a corporate behemoth with interests ranging from electronics to construction and shipbuilding According to the company s former top lawyer for seven years until 2004 Samsung has crafted a network of bribery that extends to the judiciary government tax and finance officials academia and the media The attorney Kim Yong chol described a system in which cash was handed over in briefcases or disguised to look like books or CD cases Shielding himself behind a respected organization of Roman Catholic priests Kim told a nationally televised news conference from a Seoul church that even the country s top prosecutors were on Samsung s payroll The list included the government s nominee for chief prosecutor and the head of the national commission looking into corruption he said All have denied the charges with Samsung denouncing Kim s allegations as malicious But the company s problems deepened when a former anti corruption advisor to President Roh came forward to say he had been a target of a Samsung bribe Lee Yong chul said that a Samsung executive tried to bribe him in 2004 the roughly $5 000 in cash offered in a package disguised to look like a book Lee said he refused the money Last week the South Korean parliament passed a bill calling on Roh to appoint an independent investigator to look into the allegations against Samsung Roh s critics worried he might veto the measure fearing that a wide ranging investigation of Samsung could reveal unseemly financial links between the company and his own 2002 campaign for president But this week he bowed to public pressure and accepted the appointment of the prosecutor I think the bill has many problems both legally and politically Roh said at a news conference in Seoul denying that he accepted congratulatory money from Samsung But he said he did not have the political support to veto the bill and had decided people want to know the truth of the allegations implicating the nation s largest conglomerate Few South Koreans seemed overly shocked that one of the country s mammoth business conglomerates known as chaebols would try to bribe public officials or woo allies in the media with cash and gifts South Korea s chaebols were built on intimate ties with military governments of the 1960s and have long records of being tainted by corruption In February Chung Mong koo chairman of Hyundai Motor Co was convicted of embezzling more than $100 million from the company to create a slush fund that prosecutors said was used for bribery Chung received a three year prison term but his sentence was commuted to community service when the court ruled that his incarceration would have too detrimental an impact on the South Korean economy What instead has surprised people is the increasing willingness of whistle blowers to step forward with detailed allegations against the most powerful people in South Korean society It s the first initiative that s difficult to make says Father Kim In kook of the Catholic Priests Assn for Justice an organization respected for its role in opposing the authoritarianism of dictator Park Chung hee in the 1970s The priest says whistle blower Kim Yong chol came to the church group for protection after other organizations shied away from taking on Samsung There are many people who suffered because of Samsung s corruption and injustice and who could not speak out because they felt weak as an individual Father Kim says Now that two people have come out with courage others might feel encouraged to give witness and make a better society Some observers see a sign of evolution in the scandals airing Most people believed or suspected this sort of thing was always going on and took it for granted says Lee Ji soo of the Center for Good Corporate Governance in Seoul The difference this time is that someone has come forward to speak out against it and there are more people prepared to say that this is not acceptable There is a generational divide in Korea Lee says And the younger generation is saying that Korea can t move forward unless we overcome that old way of thinking to become a more transparent society
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