<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">On a happier note, Listmembers may be interested in a special<BR>
issue of the <I>JoongAng Ilbo</I> English edition, published in print on<BR>
October 15 and now online, which looks at various aspects of<BR>
what a united Korea will be like in practice. (I declare an interest,<BR>
as the contributor of a small piece of gloom.)<BR>
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There are also nice visuals, one of which is reproduced below.<BR>
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Full details at: http://joongangdaily.joins.com/e_special/<BR>
Partial contents below.<BR>
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best wishes<BR>
Aidan FC<BR>
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AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER<BR>
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University <BR>
17 Birklands Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 3BY, UK <BR>
tel: +44(0) 1274 588586 mobile: +44(0) 7970 741307 <BR>
fax: +44(0) 1274 773663 ISDN: +44(0) 1274 589280<BR>
Email: afostercarter@aol.com website: www.aidanfc.net<BR>
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