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THE grandad of university mass killer Cho Seung-Hui said last night: "Son of a bitch. He deserved to die. "It's better not to have such a child in the family." And he dismissed Cho - diagnosed with autism as an eight-year-old - as "a trouble-causer who has destroyed his mother's life". Kim Hyang-Sik, 81, spoke at his home in South Korea after seeing the video Cho made of himself holding a gun to his head. Student Cho, 23, shot dead 32 at Virginia Tech University before killing himself.

Korean Collaborators: South Korea’s Truth Committees and the Forging of a New Pan-Korean Nationalism By Sheila Miyoshi Jager The year 2005 has particular significance for Koreans concerning Japan: it is the 100th anniversary of the 1905 protectorate treaty (or Ulsa Treaty) which led to Korea’s formal colonization by Japan in 1910. It is also the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Korea from colonial rule and it is the 40th anniversary of the normalization treaty of 1965. The year 2005 has also seen a distinct rise in anti-Japanese sentiments in South Korea. In March, angry swells of South Koreans protested...

The 40 or so, mainly female demonstrators -- holding banners reading "cats and dogs are friends of human beings" -- entered the Fangji Cat Meatball restaurant and demanded the owner free any live cats on the premises

"In the survey of 1,000 youngsters aged between 18 and 23, conducted by The Korea Times and its sister paper the Hankook Ilbo on Feb. 16-19, nearly 48 percent of respondents said that if the U.S. attacked nuclear facilities in North Korea, Seoul should act on Pyongyang's behalf and demand Washington stop the attack." 48% of Youth Would Support N. Korea in Case of US Attack Survey Shows Half of Young Generation Are Progressive By Park Song-wu, Staff Reporter Almost half of juniors surveyed, who will get their first voting rights in the 2007 presidential election, said in a recent...

South Korea's Olympic delegation has filed an official protest with the FIG (International Federation of Gymnastics) regarding bronze medallist Yang Tae-young's score in the parallel bars during the men's individual all-around final, the Korea Gymnastic Association (KGA) said Friday. Following a report by International Gymnast Magazine on Thursday, the KGA confirmed the filing but added that it doesn't expect the decision will be repealed. Even though it was the last routine of the high bar that decided the color of Yang's medal, the protest concerned the scoring for his parallel bars routine, his fifth. The Korean delegation sent the FIG...