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"I'm very sorry this tragic accident occurred, " said Chung Hyung-sook, South Korea's team leader.
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Its leader is Han Myung-sook, who served as prime minister under Roh in 2006-07.
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While Chang watches the books, his wife, Jin Sook, keeps an eye on fashion as head buyer.
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Last year's winner, Please Look After Mom by South Korean author Kyung-Sook Shin, went on to sell more than two million copies.
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"Orphans usually can't get good jobs and can't marry well, " says Park Young Sook, who recently launched the country's first foster-parent association.
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Jin Sook Chang, who immigrated from Korea and with her husband Do Won launched clothing retailer Forever 21, now with nearly 500 stores.
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"This time the emergence of two powerful parties with distinct political colors is a significant development in Korean politics, " says political scientist Cho Ki Sook.
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In the past 12 months Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became president of Liberia, Michelle Bachelet president of Chile and Han Myung-sook South Korea's first female prime minister.
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South Korea's ambassador to the UN, Kim Sook, said it was time for North Korea to "wake up from its delusion" of becoming a nuclear state.
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South Korea's envoy to the UN, Kim Sook, described the North's nuclear tests as "grave threat to the peace" on the Korean peninsula and the wider region.
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Other notable American newcomers include Do Won and Jin Sook Chang, the cofounders of Forever21, and Chris Cline, who owns 3 billion tons of coal reserves, mostly in Illinois.
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The privately held retailer is owned by husband and wife, Do Won (Don) Chang and his wife Jin Sook Chang, who moved to the U.S. from South Korea in 1981 and eventually became U.S. citizens.
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