He was a West Point graduate (finishing third in his class), Korean War jet fighter pilot (66 missions; 2 MiGs shot down) and holder of an Sc.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (in astronautics).
Those world-class Koreans are bottom of that league table, and the Estonians and the Poles aren't far above.
Although many successful South Koreans have their roots in the North, a stereotype has developed here of Northerners as second-class Koreans, needy and starving, but also surly and belligerent.
The conflicting emotions stirred by the Cheonan's sinking are also apparent in Munsan, a suburb of Seoul with rows of white high-rise apartments filled with middle-class Koreans.
Although many successful South Koreans have their roots in the North — the country's first president, Syngman Rhee; the founder of the Hyundai business empire; the family that built the South's influential Chosun newspaper; founders of some of the biggest Christian churches — an image has developed of Northerners as second-class Koreans, needy and starving but surly and belligerent.
He did offer words of contrition, however, on domestic policy, saying that he had done a "weak" job of handling labour issues and of promoting economic stability for lower- and middle-class Koreans.Some of Mr Roh's most damaging battles, meanwhile, have been with the media.
By contrast, Kendall's study of the wedding hall photography among rural migrant working-class Koreans in the 1980s finds that wedding photography was more about producing 'necessary and important documents' and about 'authenticating claims to marital respectability' (Kendall 2006: 2006
For members of this community, like the working-class Koreans in Kendell's study, the act of consumption has become a highly recognisable means of giving 'face' and gaining respectability and legitimacy within their own community.
The modest prices reflected the fact that I was visiting popular middle-class Korean resorts, not resorts aimed at free-spending foreign tourists.
It's the details that kick things to the next level: hats made of horsehair, and those sunglasses, which, in true Gangnam style, reflect what the Cornell archive calls "a modern attire among the upper-class Korean gentry".
Sik-hae is a traditional Korean fermented seafood and has long been used for seasoning and is the generic name for a class of Korean lactic acid fermented fish products [ 1].
