to marry a korean woman? the answer? don't do it! ♪ ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la ♪ sha la la la la la ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la >>> all i knew was that this town was going down, and no one was showing up. and so, we as koreans figured that out really quickly. there's a point where you and i look at each other and say -- >> they're not coming. >> they're not coming. you know, like -- >> the choppers will not be here anytime soon. >> that's when all the stuff started to go down. >> roy choi is a second-generation korean-american. he lives in los angeles. he's the owner-operator of four groundbreaking and much-loved food trucks, among the first to harness the strange and terrible powers of social media to alert customers to where to find delicious food. >> this was the command post. from here, you know, you could look and you could see if fires were

>> korean culture, korean uncles and aunts.plain myself if i said i was a cpa, never. >> you still got some explaining to do. >> to just get it across that i cook and there was this phenomenon that happened on the streets of l.a. that changed and opened up korean culture to the world. >> what does it mine to be korean american? does one create one's own world? i don't know that i'm any smarter about that now than when i first came to k-town in the middle of the night and experienced a strange and delicious slice of america i never knew was there, but i'm trying to figure it out. >>> 5191 crashed this morning shortly after takeoff. >> the tragic end of ending. >> there were no survivors, then they found mohammed crying but alive. the 2-year-old lay -- >> george lambson junior lived to tell -- >> maya

>> according to korean culture, according to korean uncles and aunts.u know. i wouldn't have to explain myself if i just said i was a cpa. >> right. >> never. >> still got some explaining to do. >> still. >> just get it across that i cook, and that there was this phenomenon that happened on the streets of l.a. that changed and opened up korean culture to the world. >> what does it mean to be korean-american? does one create one's own world? i don't know that i'm any smarter about that now than when i first came to k-town in the middle of the night to discover a strange and fabulous and delicious slice of america i had never known was there, but i'm trying to figure it out. ♪ ♪

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due to surging popularity at home and abroad pop and korean dramas were central to the start of the korean wave. now we make gains in animations and other next generation of contents for the divers to fight the korean wave. the need for fresh changes comes as global audience is me giving that speech from the army of k pop bottles. a survey by the korea foundation for international call turks changes showed that about sixty percent of the international respondents said the korean wave would begin to lose steam within the next five years. all eighteen percent of those polled believe it had already run its courts critics say the government should do more to promote cultural diversity then read them playing it safe with past successes britain and france are actively supporting creators and corporal content producers in terms of policies or capital. however the korean government is not playing a leading role there's a need for supporting policies that do not interfere this show korea has a tremendous amount off of the world including fashion literature and so much more. and as the green wave of

so i think the north koreans of income especially hectic. soon engage in outcomes so the strike so than in the pack and unexpected time and manners this union is fact and cooking could eddie cruz de but god can it go by most weapons. so when warned north korea is you know like the feet and is said that the standing on the use of negative piece won't go into media and then they're off but persistant forty and one i'll post it then number is significant. so speaking of these irregular attacks howled as south korea have planted a big range of long tour to canada. the reindeer on the calendar said the keychain is an altered the year of twenty two from wheaton on. on the board to morgan to pee and honest too who have a more updated as the mecca for the example featured new system so put pack two and a pepsi packs an easy kid to kid you not what the system. so whenever it comes from the north stand with them is soon weakened the tech tree and to detect and intercept who was coming you know well up. well possibly provocations. so i think the dog do

family reunions for them separated since the korean war. kelly and unilaterally and abruptly canceled three unions planned for september just days before the break to take plates. so could present its proposal serve as a touchstone for friendly year into a korean relations this year. experts say yes the proposal serve as momentum to improve strained it into korean giant prison upon to urge the north korea to abandon its nuclear program but overall it was peanut has left the door open for dialogue. north korea doesn't want that and now i am there. as this was a recent internal instability it sells education ministry ever made clear on tuesday that the issue of family reunions will not be linked to the hall to enter korean tourism project. the amount had. the announcement is being interpreted by many as a way to block north korea from taking advantage of family reunions to really start to resume operations so it maintains the stance that tours to the mount compound resort will not resume unless tongue and claims responsibility for shooting a

not following north korean socialism. he also claimed that the government is trying to suppress in my near opposite party. i have a desire to drive its own political interests. you peek in on the creek he said he's awaiting a verdict on charges of plotting to overthrow the governments that are taking this pic to come in february which observers say is unlikely to influence the direction of the constitutional court's ruling on to your pp dissolution case. chanting that is. stock markets are in asia on tuesday against some of this writing the last day before in trading body lulu and now spent by the us federal reserve right next to sit start the com if you're in korea defense for coffee recover from dropping to a five month low in the previous session. picking up more den three ten seven percent to close in nineteen seventeen. it's better than its counterparts in japan and china where most of the benchmark indices saw declines the us fed's two day policy meeting that begins tuesday is being watched with anticipation as is t

nineteen projects by some sun and other korean companies are major contributors to the korean economy in twenty thirteen. i'd seen on x rays on my last year. nearly a third of the country's overall exports. faces new challenges this year with smart phones no longer considered a safe passage out of the class and it will only end players they mean as rivers and sea currents of the industry. he had given us the charles top golfers took center stage of the european tour's second defence of the year. sanjay joins us for the details on that and more from the world of golf in other sports. stephen. hey guys several high profile names packed up their clothes for the hsbc golf championship in abu dhabi where two of the biggest phil mickelson and rory mcilroy was grouped with defending champion jamie donaldson. all three while not on top of the leaderboard are projected to make the cut at the end of the second round. the mall from one action of pga tours humana challenge in california has had her read in verse three times the size four six at seven hundred leads all of the south koreans and the

the first ad falsely korean air. he also thinks the second set as well. allied to struggles to hold back her eyes. michael sanchez leads all scorers with twenty points and clean air base in straight sets in it's own reports. that does for me here the sportscenter this has been steve intend to peck at midnight for the latest in the world of sports. to start to find dust has cleared out and warm winter weather has been dead for more let's turn things over to eric and look down at the weather center. again what's the latest beating sun and sea hare well today was a mild winter day here in comfy and temperatures rose to eight degrees celsius in some parts of the southern regions the dry weather warning is an aspect in the south eastern coastal regions of telethon no province as well as the cities of table clinton and bush and the humidity levels in those regions are less than thirty percent so please be aware of starting any bias. taking a look at the current conditions. reasons are at the end of the high pressure system from the south sea which is why we're

rigorous efforts protected human rights of the north korean people. with a population of roughly twenty four daily at but the bell has been stuck in parliament for years due to bipartisan differences over the contents the democratic party chief said monday that his party will still attract a belt a bit improving its human rights and livelihoods of north koreans the ruling party chief stressed that his party's number one priority is to review social club like to achieve national unity saying that those things eric e for achieving reunification and running the country a per capita income of forty thousand us dollars. he also plans to normalize commentary politics and strengthen relations with the opposition party. kinsey ins. so welcome news on the auto front korea's car exports surged to record high of almost fifty billion us dollars last year as local automakers expanded their presence in the luxury sedan market. and this year maybe even better on ga reports on how korean cars are commanding more premium price carrying on uighurs least tried to make i

korean steelmakers are no exceptions one go. although the process will the common meal or one group. it would take the stillness be some time to regain its momentum. as a global demand for steel is an awesome back to it. and it still is fighting to ride out the global glut by differentiating itself from the rest of the pack by supplying more still plays to its carnegie and ship building a billion. and in order and then the industries with an oversupply of steel balls wide korean companies like minded still trying to specialize in next generation's pixels failed to gain advantage over the global competitors the completion of a new gloss varnish last year middleton has more than twenty million tonnes of steel was here the outlook for korea's petrochemical industry does not seem much better as it is heavily dependent on exports to screen out which itself is suffering from an oversupply there are two respected related to china more than fifty percent of korea's petrochemical exports are shipped to china. second as china relies more

korean people. where we come into play is making sure we have the balance right with the military capabilities. there is planning that goes on all the time with that. if there is a humanitarian crisis and the collapse, getting a common understanding of how bad the situation is is going to be important. what do you need? it might be medical capabilities or food -- it's a wide range. that is something i think we always need to be prepared for because we already know there are problems up there when it comes to nutrition. and medical. there is the threat of other diseases in man sort of business. >> i would agree, i think we have learned in iraq and afghanistan that humanitarian day onece starts from when the bullets start to make sure the people, the common people, are best protected and taken care of. in a situation like north korea, even more important because of the androgyny nation -- because of the indoctrination of the north korean people. if we don't have plans, which i of going toplans destroy

movies korean tv programs games. porteous olson's concepts and distribution rights. a funny taking a brief because the weather here now in korea on its internet new year's day the entire nation is under clear skies this evening and is ready to be mild for me to win today at least they're not i will get down to eighty one degrees celsius in so looking forward to the weekends we will continue to enjoy quite mild conditions but light rain is forecast for the capital and surrounding areas all day on site today we can expect similar conditions on sunday but it will feel a couple of degrees mind let's take a look at the weather conditions where the law around the well. that's all for now all the ladies the news can be found on the website added and don't cuddle chaos for such news at all because everyone here to be on tv and sixty on the news team here. we wish you all are very happy in a new year. at the show to see weekend the bus. i know the event. and. i am in utah the director adam dunn and charts to take care of the

speaking at a korean swiss business form of the day. the president stressed that investment in korea will be a platform for small and midsize firms in the european nation in particular. expect it to the baker global markets. a recent survey shows that six out of tents was the seventies are trying to diversify their markets as midst of their overseas sales are concentrated in your route. like korea president that pointed to the free trade agreements korea signed with various nations including the us and south east asian countries and ongoing treat negotiations which my dad. she also called for cooperation in the educational sector sites with sleds global competitiveness and human resources estimates of the s educational system that provides the knowledge and experience students need an industrial feel the president will visit a school in bird that a swell of interest occasional training on tuesday and seek ways to strengthen cooperation in person now and information exchanges which was planned by citing a related ever hear. on send a pre

if north korean missile itself lying to the high aptitude. we do not have the surveillance systems which can reach the higher at two and also we cannot have the interceptor missiles what options do south korea have right now and what would be the shortfall of korea's missile defense capability so that's the problem. so we need to feel that the missile defense systems even though he did. they cost too much and though one of the bpd often so long. that mr defense system is mis understanding of our people or people can be instead we if we feel decent defense systems he could be part of us missile defence system but is not true. we knew as his defense system may not need the lord it is set to miss this. we need to make a close call question we'd united states and the even. on japan you know to destroy the flying and attacking north korea and this was in the air. so south korean defense minister kim went in expressed confidence in our current free and dismissal destruction system or the so called kill chain. do you think that's it we shared it be

and in the process, koreans, south koreans and people strongly because of the relationship salles thewashington cooperation and responding to these events. and the lesson on the diplomacy side just began to emerge for the first time in many years the traditional cycle of provoke and rushed back to the table, provoke, gain concessions from the nuclear is asian dialogue that gained the appearance but in retrospect it was only an appearance, that cycle was broken. pyongyang was caught in the 29-2010 period that would receive nothing from the threats of provocations. only further diplomatic and economic isolation to drive a wedge between seoul and washington and the so-called strategy. its efforts to influence politics in the public of korea and to fail. they began to learn that that behavior would no longer be reworded. at 60-years-old, the alliance simply was too smart for that. the fertile loess then i would like to take away and focus on was the analytical less than. here i risk taking off my current policy maker had going back to my old analyst days but there are three significant le

most likely the resumption of south korean tourists to the mound condemn resort. i however did not slam the door shut and family the unions altogether the statements that the two sides meet for talks with the south is willing to discuss the issues proposed by the north and south korea's ministry of unity cage and expressed regret over north korea's rejection humanitarian issues should be dealt with separately. she is. it is regrettable that north korea is linking annual millet regionals with humanitarian issues. south korea maintains it stands at the age of them are unions will be dealt with separately from the issues raised by them nor complete them the hms st called the directory add to that sad self proposal for tots and visiting family in the us hands and added that the north seems silly to say in mending ties to the south to action and not just your words the idea needs the store and a player dennis rodman has apologized for suggesting the korean american missionary can if they deserved what he got when he was sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor in north

because north korean regime wouldn't survive. as oftentimes that would also illustrate some of the wishful thinking that comes with regard to our diplomacy, simply look to the future and hoping for the best, what as that seldom hands out well. both democrats and republicans have been guilty of that over time as we both know. with regard to a rogue leaders don't have epiphanies, you know, i'm not a psychologist and i can't give a comprehensive answer to that. all i would say is that to become a leader of a rogue regime is often quite a cutthroat business. at the same time, many rogues come from countries which are rooted necessarily in western liberal culture. don't come out, don't have their ideas diplomacy shaped by the congress of vienna and so forth. power matters. and oftentimes the rogues unwilling to cut a deal if they see that that will preserve their own power. that doesn't necessary mean that they're going to have a change of heart and overnight become democratic. the sitting president survived the civil war and the cris

we don't do them considering korean solid fundamentals. but the current account surplus in sufficient farmers as they leave the impact from the feds to see him while downplaying the impact of the fed's move the korean government still sad that there are risks stemming from emerging markets like argentina and turkey or stimulus tapering caicos market instability dough will keep a close eye and the global market fluctuations that may incur due to the feds to me was tapering the economic policymakers added that the government will maintain its current emergency monitoring of the global market and work with related agencies to take action if necessary. the government's prediction comes after the fed's decision to cut its monthly bomb purchases for a second straight time by a ten billion us dollars to sixty five billion. given the positive outlook for the us economy. experts echoed the korean government's position saying that the fed's move which was widely expected would not pose major new challenges for the korean economy. ponzi and onions sh

now moving on sports media outlets have much to say about south korean baseball players. the mlb nation dot com as playstation two and the human gene and its top one hundred and one fantasy baseball player rankings for twenty fourteen the mall and i'll be back on predicted that the texas rangers will reach the world series on the back of the choo choo train and prince fielder and sports media outlets bleacher report fantasized about top international stars you insult me and that will play in the majors. now the security situation for the sochi winter olympics next month is of growing concern with the international olympic committee and the ioc president thomas bach addressed the issue in this new year's message saying that while terrorism must not try all of the two bombings in russia earlier this week despite that he expressed trusting the government there to deliver a safe and on the tropical updates for those participating and watching the games. let's not jump into thursday's comex up starting with the caveat all the k c c just visited the mocha status in the words th

families separated since the korean war six decades ago. but it is now uncertain whether it will keep the sport a hat. at the start of the trials in february and march of the dprk has demanded that sounds scary and that caused the trails colleen than the reverse oh four and innovation. lastly the country how the rare news conference the war and that the exercises to get out of control and plunged into an unmatched above disaster. you love the dprk as ambassador to china has repeated increase in demand by his country for south korea to cancel its forthcoming joint military exercises with the united states. the city the likud usual i go to for this we again propose immediately and unconditionally halting all military and hostile acts involving fellow countryman south koreans in collusion with outsiders the united states' request the south korean authorities take the crucial position of counseling he was old and full legal joint military exercises which declined to state funding and if every as long as the anti dprk policy by the us continues

request south korea has proposed a d for re unions a family separated by the korean war. while hopes are high and the much anticipated event taking place for all salute concerns that the upcoming soul washed in joint military exercises could be a major hurdle for palm sunday reports. family separated since the korean war will have the chance to see each other again in mid february. if north could be at least two south korea's offer made on monday considering the wishes of the separate families. we propose holding around the family reunions of a monk from the resort from every seventeen to twenty seconds for sixty eight. this follows ten and surprise proposal on friday at the beginning and squeeze in at a convenient time for soul after the lunar new year holiday which falls at the end of this week the education ministry said the proposed dates are flexible and pass to hold working level talks on wednesday at the transparent of parliament that define teen piggy tails. candy and made montana later date sometime after the joint military drills between seoul and washington whi

now analysts say it's not clear whether reunions will happen as the south koreans don't plan to cancel the joint military exercises. japan's leaders say they're planning to relax the immigration rules for construction workers. they say the country doesn't have enough skilled labor and are looking abroad for help members of japan's cabinet had been discussing how to handle the shortage you. they say they need more people to be built from the twenty eleven disaster in northeastern japan can stop fast facilities for the twenty twenty olympic and paralympic games in tokyo and repair aging infrastructure construction company officials say their chronically short of what its skilled and plastering and reinforcing concrete. dingell has the keys into the building firms are trying to poach workers from each other teens who use me in nineteen eighty seven there were almost four and a half million construction workers in japan by twenty twelve that number had dropped by over a million. land infrastructure and transport minister to heal or todd said the government plans to accept more people on te

ibm news that's the worst ever date a week in korean history the country's financial institutions in question are struggling to placate thousands of angry customers who are concerned your personal information may have fallen into the wrong hds the korean gornment on wedneay will unveil countermeasures to prevent such cases from happening again but will it be tough enough when those guilty may include paying workers themselves or to google explains. thousands of angry customers swarmed into their vans for its second straight day on tuesday to give their credit card details change and spa complete some of the credit card firms mismanagement of their personal information. their actions follow in the week of what has become one of the biggest information leaks in the nation's history with up to twenty million people in korea having being affected. i've been waiting here for more than an hour and i'm dbfounded by the whole situation financl institutions are responsible for protecting the assets and personal information is not the right thing to compensate for any damages that customers ma

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meanwhile the other south korean team won bronze after prepping silver the day before. and shifting over to golf twenty seven year old ms unwin is off to a great start at the pga tour's sony open in hawaii. this shot a bogey free seven under par in the first round of and at the white owl a country club golf course in honolulu. hopes are high that he'll keep the momentum going into day two with a final round to be played on sunday meanwhile korea's top bread mix in this one on santa has left for russia to begin training for her first competition of the season next month. add in some international airports on said that ball c feels a bit of pressure she would do our best while enjoying the moment. her season begins at the mosque al ground free on every twenty eight leading up to the seventy two asian games in september. now let's get to the kb yell lg dominates ttc eighty to sixty but now it's friday's match up this time some thunderous to go the mall this team is this our small discrete states in the first quarter before going up by thirteen points at the end of the firs

about 1100 north koreans work in four manufacturing facilities. the number has almost quadrupled over two years. the women are tired on three-year contracts. each worker earns about $280 a month. north korean authorities reportedly take most of it, dispatching workers to china is an important source of foreign currency. >>> the u.s. army will send an additional 800 soldiers to south korea next month. pentagon officials say the move is part of the u.s. military rebalancing toward asia, and the pacific. officials say the battalion will be deployed on february 1st, equipped with tanks and other armored vehicles. they said they are sending the troops from an army base in the u.s. state of texas, and will replace them in nine months with another battalion. the u.s. army has about 20,000 soldiers stationed in south korea. the army deployed a new helicopter unit there last year for enemy surveillance. army chief of staff general ray odierno said the rebalancing of troops to the asia pacific region is based on a u.s. national defense strategy laid out in

i was not much worried about north korean ground forces. they have large forces but i think they're ground capability has atrophied. the missile portfolio that they continue to develop and with a long-range missile, they put a satellite in orbit which could be at some point in icbm, i think it is a real threat. real mobile capability is hard to find on the battlefield. that we havehing to pay attention to. my emphasis during that period of time as i talked to washington was on what i was seeing from an asymmetric portfolio. onlymd portfolio not missiles and the nuclear piece, but also chemical. they have large chemical stockpiles up there. .hey also have cyber capability that is what i think we have to worry about for the future. you're talking to washington dc, it is important not to overstate the problem. that is what i tried to do because we felt -- dealt with many challenges. it is very easy to get things excited and do the wrong thing. i went back to two things. one, i had to maintain armistice. i had to prevent war and preserve option

it started with a meeting with korean residents there. she held bilateral talks with prime minister han dynasty after india present is set to attend the world economic forum in davos switzerland eighteen she will continue reporting on the site as new updates. i am. and. i have a quiet on the prospects and truth is that lie ahead. she knew gill has this report we're getting desperate don't know. here's some news items and always garner a lot of interest in the new year that helped the steel market is suffering from a global glut of supply to see the back by a pop by for just forty million tonnes the outlook for korea's missile chemical industry does not seem much better as it is heavily dependent on exports which i doubt that it's off to korea but the reporter shield bill story covering industrial planning begin. it's so there was a year. we we actually decided to do various series our economic outlooks for two thousand and fourteen and there were five topics ranging from semiconductors to the actual plants. two steel industry. also you ca

currently the video is in korean in kenya view that tok tok god and knoweth a donkey au dot kr other language versions fails to follow this the us the japanese cabinet minister visited the controversial yasukuni war shrine in tokyo on wednesday just six days after prime minister shinzo ave enraged neighboring countries with his own vision. visit the ocean top action due to know that is japan's internal affairs and communications minister said he visited the shrine to pay respect to those who lost their lives in more. the yasukuni shrine honors two and aalf million war dead including convicted class a war criminals is viewed by neighboring countries like korea and china as a symbol of japanese wartime rations and she knows this it is likely to further inflame tensions in the region. in a spirit of the new year has north korean leader kim jun an extended an olive branch to us here in seoul in his new year's message and its leader called for better ties with south korea are you leon. as the tents the north korean leader whose own and delivered a rather conciliatory message toward south

south korean president talk you're grateful for family reunions stop again with the dprk the chinese customs or partially destroyed six homes although he go hungry in the southern city of long ago went to pick up a bit of a stoplight on cctv new zine and when not painting a very warm welcome. and we begin with the conflict in south sudan peace talks aimed at ending the fighting have been delayed again. the government says it wants a ceasefire before negotiations begin and the rebels are demanding the release of political prisoners report cited the two sides have agreed on an agenda of official talks have yet to stop. the rebels canceled a press conference that was scheduled for some guy on the moon. meanwhile fighting continues in the strategic town of war and other parts of south sudan the category licence were joined by our correspondent second child a reason the ethiopian capital of a bomb with a peaceful is one supposed to get on the way on sunday. thanks for joining us at your own so that the negotiations between the governments of the rebels in south sudan the epistle of being

some south korean mart teams birthdawith prost. one hundred fifty people attended the rally in seoul. they included retired soldiers said north korean defectors they claim to ordinary citizens in the north are suffering under kim's dictatorship. they demanded he give up its nuclear development program and choose the path of reform and openness. they smashed the north korean flag and burnt in effigy of him. last month authorities and kill again condemned the rally by the same group as an insult to the dignity of their leader they threatened to retaliate without warning should the provocations be repeated. professor of tony cook university in seoul core you one has spent more than twenty years looking at north korean politics he gave us for their insights on the latest developments in the country their tongues and eight. the execution of kim's uncle with the jones' own cake and sing to him. changes in the power structure and fortune seekers kim jong hoon is likely to build the new leadership to stick to it by promoting others who opp

the north koreans leaving the door ajar, saying there could be talks in a good season. at the moment they say there's not enough time to prepare for january 31st, the weather is cold, and saying this is a period leading to the annual south korean exercises saying can separated families have reunions in peace, amid gunfire. an humanitarian issues cannot belinked. they are waiting for a response. >> what other ways do the sides have to build a dialogue. >> well, they have been working level talks in the last few weeks over the issue of the kay song industrial complex. that was closed down in the worst of the intentions around this time last year, february, march, april last year, so there is still contact on that front. and in the north korean leader's own new year statement, kim jong un talked about trying to improve north-south ties. there was similar wording in this statement. similar things were said in the new year last year. it saw some of the worst interpretations between north and south korea for many years. while the situation remains as it is, there are these -

in june of last year south korean president packer that chinese leaders to build the monument was on a visit to beijing aye aye aye aye aye. three major south korean credit card firms have been getting floods of inquiries after that personal information of over one hundred million customers was leaked that number is twice the country's population representatives of the company's apologize for the leak in a joint news conference in seoul on monday south korean prosecutors say the movie the day include credit card numbers expiration dates and names and phone numbers of some one hundred five million cardholders. but prosecutors say an employee of an information security company assigned to the credit card firms sold the data after copping them onto a memory stick. officials of the credit card firms say there's no possibility that the leak has caused any damage. they doubt the personal identification numbers and security pros on the cards are in hand the president of china says he will go to russia next month to attend the opening ceremony of the winter lynn takes some world leaders have

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they are trying to change the country in a great way. >> the young north korean leader is not only aasketball fan who enjoys being out with sports bars, he also presides over a closed and repressive system, which reportedly runs a network of brutal political prison camps. if rodman were to talk about that, it is hard to know what basketball diplomacy can really achieve. bbc news, seoul, korea. >> what exactly is dennis rodman managing to do in north korea? i am willing to bet that not many of you would describe yourselves as midi the weapons builders, but yet, it is a real job. after all, someone has to make all of those swords that crop up in fighting in movies, and matthew is one of them. metal into swords in baltimore, and recently, we caught up with him to learn more about this curious craft. >> ever since i was a little kid, i loved star wars, and i have been making swords for 16 years now. are 18 and 21 years older than i am. they were into a lot of role- playing, and as a little kid, watching people fight with swords and armor in your front yard was pretty inspiring. when i wa

the kids financial information as eighteen million koreans stylist weeks the fruits of social security numbers and cellphone numbers dress is a credit card numbers. i've been belting concerns that the highly sensitive information will be misused a new type of statistics gap that has illegally up tina personal information has emerged. this cheque to practice worse when they're sent text messages containing malicious links back to the views expressed personal financial be that when these new types of machine messages. the present day card company or financial authorities in tricking users by making them think they're being contacted in regard to their week to personal information. a korean internet security provider in ski socks as it's been over one hundred and seventy three he says of these kinds of species camps reported. just in the past two weeks to deal with the rising number of stamps. the ministry of science ict in future planning will ban people from sending messages using a different color ied starting next month. but this is only expected to have a limited effect. given that n

and south korean prison camp communities. seas to see. she suggested on monday in her first news conference of the year that it would be difficult to hold a summit meeting for the time being. mark says japanese leaders have recently being called dragon king. apologies for the country's i'm gracious and corny unloading days. as for china. a spokesperson for the foreign ministry says. and this time it keeps repeating that he attaches importance to the nations as china. but he who sees it. a spokesperson says i close the door to dialogue and that chinese candle to welcome a japanese leader when this kind of mindset. his focus will remain the economy. and his plans to call in japan out of deflation. mr knows japanese and people of color to pay much attention to the fate of his economic plan. pick up in the mix he knows his cellphone trading is a relatively high because voters back his policies. he wants to keep the behind him nick went into work this year on revitalizing the economy. this is the recovery is being more widely felt across the c

and the north koreans, the behavior, what is going to happen to that type of impact to the korean economy is. and how does somebody direct that the north korean -- tax the investments. anyway, my comments on the north korean impact, that it can be -- continue. north korea could -- [inaudible] >> dramatic impacts to the south korean economy, right? [laughter] >> you have about two minutes. >> my personal view, because i haven't discussed this with anyone. my personal view is the korean economy at the moment is facing some inequities like any other country possibly because we are dependent on exports but given the policies we are implementing at the moment, it's quite confident in the medium term that for investors, not come back with negative return particularly given the slow growth prospects in the rest of the world's. on a net basis korea is a good place to invest and i don't think hopefully that military stress from north korea is as serious as one might actually think. more recently kim jong un indicated his willingness to talk with south korean government but then again, you are the

that's where ahn, a korean nationalist, shot dead hirobumi ito. at the time the korean peninsula was a protectorate of japan. it was annexed the following year. the japanese foreign ministry has launched a protest through the chinese and south korean embassies in tokyo. >> translator: we see ahn jung-geun as a terrorist who was sentenced to death for assassinating japan's first prime minister. >> he also criticized the coordination between south korea and china. he said it does not contribute to peace and pop ration in east asia. in june of last year south korean president park geun-hye asked chinese leaders to build a monument while on a visit to beijing. >>> china's economy is once again showing some momentum. biz team ron madison is here with more on that. ron? >> investors have really been waiting for those numbers to come out, gene, to get more sense of direction about where the chinese economy is headed. so officials there have tallied up their figures or economic growth and come in slightly above expectations. the figure is higher than the

he quotes the north koreans should do if they want to share that serious he is none. the north koreans must surely be a repeat of two tracks if they want to improve police with stones. above all they must make sincere efforts to the new clear eyes. it's this point in contradictions between what you said in his pbs neatest a speech. no one he tasted it. he's a team called for reconciliation and decided to frame the contest and warned the south from which the attacks. the rest of the junta says he will hand over the country's top job after the next jennings action. the monsoon has been in town for the past decade these colors on tees kindy stomping in the polls was first in recent state elections. but he didn't know who waited in the village but the vehicle. the extent of august priest. the review correct. what good is that it's done is put to her the external call this a latina sania prime minister after a general elections in may eighty one year old son was initially known as an economist. indeed she is strongest during the period up to take office as prime and is sta