Terrorists from an unidentified but probably North Korean country launch an attack on the White House, killing dozens of people.
"I was walking through the airport with friends and someone stopped me and said, 'Sign this petition for your Korean country,' " she recalled.
All of this was with the black-drop of the stunning beauty of the mountains, the forests, the streams, and the natural beauty of the Korean country-side.
(Of course, such stereotypes tend to change when the underlying facts change. As Chinese products improve, Western consumers will eventually notice. Ask the Japanese or the South Koreans).In countries that industrialised long ago, much of the infrastructure is old and creaky.
Chung's personal sporting accomplishments include a silver medal in a national competition for equestrian jumping in 1976 and a fourth-place finish in a Korean cross-country skiing championship.
The North Koreans, whose country faces problems considerably more serious than these, struggled to come up with ideas, but Halberg's lessons about starting companies with minimal resources gelled.
Don Lee is equally forthright about Japan's racist attitudes toward blacks and Koreans in "Country of Origin," which also takes a gritty look at Tokyo's fabled sex-entertainment industry.
For South Koreans, whose country has shot up in a generation from the ranks of the lowly to become one of the world's largest economies, the rail project involves far more than relations with the North.
While condemning the North Korean action, several countries urged a cautious and low-key response.
The Bank of Japan and the Peoples Bank of China should provide similar swap lines to Korean and ASEAN countries.
