[300th]Vargas Llosa Takes Nobel in Literature/Threat of 'cyberwar' has been hugely hyped/ ‘Korea in Motion’ festival attracts global theater fans

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Vargas Llosa Takes Nobel in Literature

By JULIE BOSMAN and SIMON ROMERO

The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, whose deeply political work vividly examines the perils of power and corruption in Latin America, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.

Announcing the award in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy praised Mr. Vargas Llosa “for his cartography of the structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat.”

Mr. Vargas Llosa, 74, is one of the most celebrated writers of the Spanish-speaking world, an anti-totalitarian intellectual whose work covers the range of human experience, whether it is ideology or eros. He is frequently mentioned with his contemporary Gabriel García Márquez, who won the literature Nobel in 1982, the last South American to do so. Mr. Vargas Llosa has written more than 30 works of nonfiction, plays and novels, including “The Feast of the Goat” and “The War of the End of the World.”

The prize is the first for a writer in the Spanish language in two decades, after Octavio Paz of Mexico won in 1990. It renews attention on the Latin American writers who gained renown in the 1960s, like Julio Cortázar of Argentina and Carlos Fuentes of Mexico, who formed the region’s “boom generation.”

During a news conference at the Instituto Cervantes in Manhattan on Thursday, Mr. Vargas Llosa, an elegant, dashing figure with silvery hair, appeared in front of a crowd of giddy journalists, mostly Spanish-speaking, and Alejandro Toledo, the former president of Peru, who sat in the front row. Mr. Vargas Llosa is currently spending the semester in the United States, teaching Latin American studies at Princeton.

Answering questions in English, Spanish and a bit of French, Mr. Vargas Llosa called the Nobel a recognition of the importance of Latin American literature and of the Spanish language, which has acquired “a sort of citizenship in the world,” he said.

When Mr. Vargas Llosa was young and went to Europe for the first time, he said, “Latin America seemed to be a land where there were only dictators, revolutionaries, catastrophes. Now we know that Latin America can produce also artists, musicians, painters, thinkers and novelists.”

The announcement of the prize was greeted largely with enthusiasm in Latin America, where Mr. Vargas Llosa is widely admired for his literary greatness but is a divisive figure because of his conservative politics. He has frequently criticized leftist governments in the region, including those of Cuba and Venezuela.

In Peru, members of Congress took to the floor to praise him. People celebrated in Arequipa, the provincial city where he was born, with Peruvian television showing a band playing the national anthem in the streets.

Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s president, wrote in a Twitter message that the prize was cause for “Latin American pride.”

But illustrating the mixed sentiment that Mr. Vargas Llosa’s views elicit among some in the region, the Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II said that while the prize was “absolutely deserved,” Mr. Vargas Llosa himself was “deplorable as a citizen and as a person.”

In selecting Mr. Vargas Llosa, the Swedish Academy has once again made a literary choice tinged with politics, though this time from the right instead of the left.

Recent winners of the literature Nobel include Herta Müller, the Romanian-born German novelist; Orhan Pamuk of Turkey; and Harold Pinter of Britain.

“It’s very difficult for a Latin American writer to avoid politics,” Mr. Vargas Llosa said on Thursday. “Literature is an expression‎! of life, and you cannot eradicate politics from life.”

Summary

The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, whose deeply political work vividly examines the perils of power and corruption in Latin America, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize is the first for a writer in the Spanish language in two decades. It is the big meaning in Peru. The announcement of the prize was greeted largely with enthusiasm in Latin America, where Mr. Vargas Llosa is widely admired for his literary greatness but is a divisive figure because of his conservative politics. He has frequently criticized leftist governments in the region, including those of Cuba and Venezuela.

Questions

1.      Have you ever heard about KoUen? He was Korean Candidate for Nobel Prize for literature in 2003-2010, during 8years.  What do you think the reason of his continuous defeat at the competition?

2.      Do you guys like literary works(including reading books)? What kind of literary works do you like? How many books do read a month?

3.      What do you think the best language in the world? Do you think the Korean language is enough to use our expressions?

4.      Do you think there is relation with politic and Literature? Why do you think so?

Threat of 'cyberwar' has been hugely hyped

By Bruce Schneier, Special to CNN

(CNN) -- There's a power struggle going on in the U.S. government right now.

It's about who is in charge of cyber security, and how much control the government will exert over civilian networks. And by beating the drums of war, the military is coming out on top.

"The United States is fighting a cyberwar today, and we are losing," said former NSA director -- and current cyberwar contractor -- Mike McConnell. "Cyber 9/11 has happened over the last ten years, but it happened slowly so we don't see it," said former National Cyber Security Division director Amit Yoran. Richard Clarke, whom Yoran replaced, wrote an entire book hyping the threat of cyberwar.

General Keith Alexander, the current commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, hypes it every chance he gets. This isn't just rhetoric of a few over-eager government officials and headline writers; the entire national debate on cyberwar is plagued with exaggerations and hyperbole.

Googling those names and terms -- as well as "cyber Pearl Harbor," "cyber Katrina," and even "cyber Armageddon" -- gives some idea how pervasive these memes are. Prefix "cyber" to something scary, and you end up with something really scary.

Cyberspace has all sorts of threats, day in and day out. Cybercrime is by far the largest: fraud, through identity theft and other means, extortion, and so on. Cyber-espionage is another, both government- and corporate-sponsored. Traditional hacking, without a profit motive, is still a threat. So is cyber-activism: people, most often kids, playing politics by attacking government and corporate websites and networks.

These threats cover a wide variety of perpetrators, motivations, tactics, and goals. You can see this variety in what the media has mislabeled as "cyberwar." The attacks against Estonian websites in 2007 were simple hacking attacks by ethnic Russians angry at anti-Russian policies; these were denial-of-service attacks, a normal risk in cyberspace and hardly unprecedented.

A real-world comparison might be if an army invaded a country, then all got in line in front of people at the DMV so they couldn't renew their licenses. If that's what war looks like in the 21st century, we have little to fear.

Similar attacks against Georgia, which accompanied an actual Russian invasion, were also probably the responsibility of citizen activists or organized crime. A series of power blackouts in Brazil was caused by criminal extortionists -- or was it sooty insulators? China is engaging in espionage, not war, in cyberspace. And so on.

One problem is that there's no clear definition of "cyberwar." What does it look like? How does it start? When is it over? Even cybersecurity experts don't know the answers to these questions, and it's dangerous to broadly apply the term "war" unless we know a war is going on.

Yet recent news articles have claimed that China declared cyberwar on Google, that Germany attacked China, and that a group of young hackers declared cyberwar on Australia. (Yes, cyberwar is so easy that even kids can do it.) Clearly we're not talking about real war here, but a rhetorical war: like the war on terror.

We have a variety of institutions that can defend us when attacked: the police, the military, the Department of Homeland Security, various commercial products and services, and our own personal or corporate lawyers. The legal framework for any particular attack depends on two things: the attacker and the motive. Those are precisely the two things you don't know when you're being attacked on the Internet. We saw this on July 4 last year, when U.S. and South Korean websites were attacked by unknown perpetrators from North Korea -- or perhaps England. Or was it Florida?

We surely need to improve our cybersecurity. But words have meaning, and metaphors matter. There's a power struggle going on for control of our nation's cybersecurity strategy, and the NSA and DoD are winning. If we frame the debate in terms of war, if we accept the military's expansive cyberspace definition of "war," we feed our fears.

We reinforce the notion that we're helpless -- what person or organization can defend itself in a war? -- and others need to protect us. We invite the military to take over security, and to ignore the limits on power that often get jettisoned during wartime.

If, on the other hand, we use the more measured language of cybercrime, we change the debate. Crime fighting requires both resolve and resources, but it's done within the context of normal life. We willingly give our police extraordinary powers of investigation and arrest, but we temper these powers with a judicial system and legal protections for citizens.

We need to be prepared for war, and a Cyber Command is just as vital as an Army or a Strategic Air Command. And because kid hackers and cyber-warriors use the same tactics, the defenses we build against crime and espionage will also protect us from more concerted attacks. But we're not fighting a cyberwar now, and the risks of a cyberwar are no greater than the risks of a ground invasion. We need peacetime cyber-security, administered within the myriad structure of public and private security institutions we already have.

Summary

Cyberwar" is being described as a major, ever-present and ominous threat. It's about who is in charge of cyber security, and how much control the government will exert over civilian networks. And by beating the drums of war, the military is coming out on top." Bruce Schneier: Cyberwar threat often hyped to make case for military control. Many "cyberwar" incidents turn out to be criminal cases, not military in nature. He says we need better cyber security but should adopt a peacetime approach.

Questions

1.      What is the best method to improve our cybersecurity?

2.      What are the legal and technical limits, especially when cyberspace transcends national boundaries?

3.      How can we solve problems about cyberspace, which are a virtual tourist trap where faceless, nameless con artists can work the crowds?

 ‘Korea in Motion’ festival attracts global theater fans

Hallyu, or the Korean wave, is entering a new phase in its development as Korea’s performing arts are set to attract global fans to local theaters this weekend.
“Korea in Motion” festival, the country’s largest non-verbal performance festival, kicks off Saturday with an opening ceremony at the National Museum in Yongsan-gu, Seoul.

The 5th annual event, organized by Korea Tourism Organization in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, is set to attract tens of thousands of tourists to the city during the 16-day event, according to the KTO.

The aim of the festival is to attract more foreign tourists to spend time here by staging performances designed to break through language and cultural barriers with music, dance and physical comedy, the organization said.
This year’s fest introduces 14 renowned non-verbal performances from home and abroad including NANTA, Jump and Kim Duk-soo’s traditional performing arts, Drum Cat Concert and Battle B-boy.
“We believe our popular performances have the potential to become a tourist attraction,” said Seung Kyung-ja, director KTO’s exhibition and event department.

According to Seung, since the festival began four years ago, the number of tourists coming to watch local performances has been growing in leaps, reaching a milestone of more than 13,000 viewers last year.
This year, the KTO expects more than 15,000 audience members from abroad as well as up to 100,000 local fans to turn up for the festival.
“Some Japanese travel agencies have started to organize trips for our fest. I believe it is now becoming a new hallyu trend. It is also helping to promote the local performances.”

From Oct. 16-31, 14 world-class non-verbal performances will be on stages across the city, including the National Museum of Korea Plaza and Daehangno’s Marronnie Park.

If you have not yet seen it, NANTA is one to look out for. Since its introduction in 1997, the show that conveys the story of four chefs without dialogue but through the rhythmic banging of knives, pots and pans, has achieved great international success, having been performed on Broadway and toured around the world.
Drum cat is the first percussion team, consisting of only women. Beautiful performers in tight catsuits dancing to a heart-pounding drum beat offer an exciting 2-hour show. 
Jump, the first in the martial arts performance genre, is also a great choice. It is a non-verbal performance based on the comic drama of an extraordinary family, featuring a mixture of dazzling acrobatics and dynamic martial arts including taekwondo and taekkyeon.

Other special shows include the award-winning traditional Korean productions Legend of Flower and Battle B-boy.
To attract more visitors, the KTO offers special deals Friday to Sunday during the festival period when audiences can enjoy selected performances for 10,000 won ($10).
Also, some selected events will be performed at open stages in Marronnier Park in Daehangno and Plaza of National Museum of Korea every weekend during the fest.

The Korea Tourism Organization has set a goal of attracting 10 million visitors by 2012. Last year, it reached a record 7.8 million inbound travelers. The KTO expects the “Korean in Motion” events to help reach this target

Summany

Hallyu, or the Korean wave, is entering a new phase in its development as Korea’s performing arts are set to attract global fans to local theaters this weekend. The aim of the festival is to attract more foreign tourists to spend time here by staging performances designed to break through language and cultural barriers with music, dance and physical comedy

Qusetions

1.      Which performance do you like?

2.      Why many young people in Asia are fanatical [enthusiastic] about Hallyu, or the Korean wave?

3. Many years ago, it was happened similar wave in China. However, time goes by it has been disappeared. How can we keep our Korean wave?

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