[336th]Twice-Rejected S. Korean Town Lands 2018 Winter /To Slow Piracy, Internet Providers Ready Penalties/Growing phone hacking scandal sickens U.K

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Twice-Rejected S. Korean Town Lands 2018 Winter Games

SEOUL, South Korea — When the town of Pyeongchang first pitched its Olympic dream 12 years ago, some International Olympic Committee members confused it with Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. Even within South Korea it was known until recently mainly for having bid unsuccessfully for the 2010 and 2014 Winter Games. 

 “We never gave up, that’s what made the difference,” Yeom Don-seol, a Pyeongchang resident, said this week after the town of 43,000 prevailed over Munich and Annecy, France, to host the 2018 Games. “Now people from around the world will come here. We have finally marked ourselves on the map of the world.”

Villagers, many of whom farm, stayed up all night Wednesday celebrating with fireworks and the favorite pastimes of rural South Korea: singing, dancing and drinking rice wine. In the capital, Seoul, a city of 10 million 80 miles to the west, shouts of joy erupted from high-rise apartment buildings when TV networks broadcast the I.O.C.’s decision from Durban, South Africa, shortly after midnight local time.

“Patience and perseverance have prevailed, ” said Jacques Rogge, the I.O.C. president.

Pyeongchang, 50 miles from the border with North Korea in the Taebaek Mountains, is in one of the country’s least developed provinces, Gangwon. In fact, the region’s Olympic drive can be seen in part as a reflection of a yearning to shed its backwater image, an impression reinforced by abandoned coal mines and by steep hills scarred by barbed-wire fences, bunkers and minefields placed there to guard against invasion by North Korea.

The province is also home to a number of Buddhist temples, including the famous Woljeongsa, founded almost 1,400 years ago, and, perhaps incongruously, to the only one of the country’s 17 casinos open to South Koreans, a result of efforts more than a decade ago to breathe new economic life into struggling mining towns.

Pyeongchang is probably most identified with its abundant potatoes and hwangtae, or dried pollock. Left for weeks to dry under a winter sun, the fish get as tough as cowhide and are considered a national delicacy.

But in recent years the area has begun a physical transformation, matched perhaps only by a change in the attitudes of many South Koreans. People who once regarded winter sports as hobbies for the rich began to see opportunity in the Taebaeks, some of which rise 5,500 feet.

In time the mountains and the ice rinks near Pyeongchang, traditionally a sleepy town, became a haven for winter sports enthusiasts and ultimately a site for international events, including the 1999 Winter Asian Games.

For more than a decade the region has been in the grip of Olympic fever, one growing hotter since 2003, when Pyeongchang lost its bid for the 2010 Games to Vancouver. Signs on its streets and in taxicabs carry slogans like “Yes! Pyeongchang.”

Bulldozers have pushed on to clear potato fields and pine-covered hills to create a $1.5 billion resort complex called Alpensia that developers envision as a new Asian hub of winter sports.

For the Olympics, there will be at least 13 competition sites within 30 minutes of one another.

The first-ballot victory, by a 63-25 vote over Munich, Pyeongchang’s closest rival, has brightened the mood of a country surrounded by neighbors it has traditionally feared and mistrusted, and which has had a troubled year, with military provocations by North Korea.

North Korea, in fact, is never far from the minds of people in Pyeongchang. Many are the children of refugees who fled south during the 1950-53 Korean War. They settled in this rugged land to be near their homeland so they could return quickly if the countries reunified.

South Korea has long looked to major international sports events to reaffirm its confidence. In 1988, in a coming-out party for a young democracy, the Summer Olympics were held in Seoul. In 2002, South Korea was the co-host with Japan of the men’s World Cup soccer tournament. Next month, the world track and field championships will be held in Daegu.

Sports officials appear tireless in reminding the people that South Korea had become only the sixth country — after Japan, Germany, France, Russia and Italy — to have won the rights to stage all four of the world’s biggest sports competitions: the Summer and Winter Olympics, the soccer World Cup and the track and field world championships.

Hosting the Winter Olympics, many say, will lift South Korea’s “national prestige,” as all of the national daily newspapers editorialized Thursday.

South Koreans tend to measure their worth in comparison with Japan, their former colonial master. They have smarted at the fact that Japan has been the only Asian country to host the Winter Olympics (in 1972 and 1998).

After Pyeongchang’s two failed bids, securing the Winter Olympics became a test of national pride. Within two months of its defeat by the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi for the 2014 Games, Pyeongchang declared that it would not stop bidding until it won.

President Lee Myung-bak encouraged the nation’s top industrialists to lead the campaign: Lee Kun-hee, chairman of Samsung; Cho Yang-ho, head of Korean Air; and Park Yong-sung, a tycoon turned chairman of the South Korean Olympic Committee.

The president flew to Durban to give a personal pitch.

“Out of sight, I have met many people here,” he told South Korean reporters in Durban, referring to his lobbying efforts. “I think I can sleep soundly tonight.”

The 2018 Olympics are expected to lift the local and national economies, creating 230,000 jobs and generating $20 billion in investments and consumption. And there is hope that Pyeongchang’s successful bid will also lead to cooperation with North Korea.

“I hope that we can cede some of the games to North Korea across the border,” said Baek Yong-geun, a shopkeeper in Pyeongchang, “and make this an Olympics for Korean unification.”

1. What makes PyeongChang become the Winner of Winter Olympics 2018?

2. How did you feel when Jacques Rogge announced “PyeongChang”?

3. What was the most successful international Event hosted by Korea?

And in what sense?

To Slow Piracy, Internet Providers Ready Penalties

Americans who illegally download songs and movies may soon be in for a surprise: They will be warned to stop, and if they don’t, they could find their Internet access slowing to a crawl.

After years of negotiations with Hollywood and the music industry, the nation’s top Internet providers have agreed to a systematic approach to identifying customers suspected of digital copyright infringement and then alerting them via e-mail or other means.

Under the new process, which was announced Thursday, several warnings would be issued, with progressively harsher consequences if the initial cautions were ignored.

The companies took pains to say that the agreement did not oblige Internet providers to shut down a repeat offender’s account, and that the system of alerts was meant to be “educational.” But they noted that carriers would retain their right to cut off any user who violated their terms of service.

In bringing together the media companies and Internet carriers, the deal demonstrates how the once-clear line separating those two businesses has been blurred. Eight years ago, the Recording Industry Association of America had to sue Verizon to try to uncover the identity of a customer who was sharing music online. This year, Comcast completed its merger with NBC, bringing an owner of digital content and a conduit for it under the same roof.

Now the Internet providers are hoping to profit as they pipe music and video of the nonpirated variety to their customers.

“The I.S.P.’s want to cooperate with Hollywood because the carriers recognize that their own growth depends in part on bundled content strategies,” said Eric Garland of BigChampagne, which tracks online media traffic. “They don’t want to be just utilities providing Internet access, but premium content distributors as well.”

The system announced on Thursday involves a series of six warnings that an Internet provider can send to a customer whom the media companies have identified as a possible copyright infringer. The warnings escalate from simple e-mail notifications to, at levels 5 and 6, a set of “mitigation measures,” like reduced connection speeds or a block on Web browsing. As the alerts progress, a customer must acknowledge that he understands the notice. Customers will also have the opportunity to contest the complaint.

The effect on consumers, the companies hope, will be more of a deterrent-by-annoyance — rather than the random lightning bolt of litigation that was once the preferred method of enforcement by the recording industry association, one of the parties to the agreement.

The media companies were also represented by the Motion Picture Association of America and groups acting on behalf of independent record companies and filmmakers. The Internet carriers involved in the deal include AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Verizon and Time Warner Cable.

The music and movie companies, which estimate that digital piracy costs the United States economy $16 billion in lost revenue each year, have been eager for an efficient way to deal with the problem.

As illegal downloading has become ingrained as a cultural habit, especially among young people, expensive litigation has become less effective, and the lawsuits against individuals were something of a public relations disaster for the music companies. The new deal, the companies say, offers plenty of chances for even the most recalcitrant pirates to reform.

“This is a sensible approach to the problem of online content theft and, importantly, one that respects the privacy and rights of our subscribers,” Randal S. Milch, executive vice president and general counsel for Verizon, said in a statement.

The agreement has an unlikely origin: it came about as a result of an effort to crack down on child pornography that was led by Andrew M. Cuomo while he was the New York attorney general.

1. Have you ever pay any money for Downloading Music or Movie?

2. Do you think that Method can change the illegal habit effectively or not?

3. If you have better Idea , let’s share.

Growing phone hacking scandal sickens U.K.

More potential victims uncovered, including terror, murder victims


LONDON (AP) ― Britain’s phone hacking scandal intensified Wednesday as the scope of tabloid intrusion into private voice mails became clearer: murder victims, terror victims, film stars, sports figures, politicians, the royal family’s entourage.

Almost no one, it seems, was safe from a tabloid determined to beat its rivals, whatever it takes.

The focal point is the News of the World ― now facing a spreading advertising boycott ― and the top executives of its parent companies: Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, and her boss, media potentate Rupert Murdoch.

In his first comment since the latest details emerged, Murdoch said in a statement Wednesday that Brooks would continue to lead his British newspaper operation despite calls for her resignation.

The scandal, which has already touched the office of Prime Minister David Cameron, widened as the Metropolitan Police confirmed they were investigating evidence from News International that the tabloid made illegal payments to police officers in its quest for information.

The list of potential victims also grew. Revelations emerged Wednesday that the phones of relatives of people killed in the July 7, 2005, terrorist attacks on London’s transit system, as well as those tied to two more slain schoolgirls, may also have been targeted.

The true extent of the hacking is not yet clear ― and may not be known for months as inquiries unfold.

Graham Foulkes, whose 22-year-old son David died in the 2005 terrorist attacks, was told by police that he was on a list of potential hacking victims.

“I just felt stunned and horrified,” Foulkes told the Associated Press.

“I find it hard to believe someone could be so wicked and so evil, and that someone could work for an organization that even today is trying to defend what they see as normal practices.”

Foulkes, who plans to mourn his son on Thursday’s sixth anniversary of the attack, said an independent investigation is needed because the police were compromised by accepting payoffs from the tabloid.

“The police are now implicated,” he said. “The prime minister must have an independent inquiry and all concerned should be prosecuted.”

Foulkes also demanded the resignation of Brooks, the former News of the World editor who is now chief executive of News International, the U.K. newspaper division of Murdoch’s News Corp. media empire. News Corp. owns a swath of newspapers, including News of the World, the Sun, and the Wall Street Journal.

“She’s gotta go,” Foulkes said. “She cannot say, oops, sorry, we’ve been caught out. Of course she’s responsible for the ethos and practices of her department. Her position is untenable.”

Brooks, one of the most powerful women in British journalism, maintains she did not know about the phone hacking. She said she will continue to direct the company.

Foulkes also challenged Murdoch ― a global media titan with newspaper, television, movie and book publishing interests in the United States, Britain, Australia and elsewhere ― to meet with him to discuss the intrusion into his privacy.

“I doubt he’s brave enough to face me,” he said.

In Parliament, lawmakers held an emergency debate to call for the prosecution of those responsible for hacking into the phone of Milly Dowler, the 13-year-old murder victim whose case touched off the scandal, and others.

The Dowler case touched a raw national nerve because the paper is accused of hampering the police investigation by deleting some of Milly’s phone messages, which gave her parents and police false hope that she was still alive after she disappeared in 2002.

Cameron called for inquiries into the News of the World’s behavior as well as into the failure of the original police inquiry to uncover the extent of the hacking.

Potential victims have cited the tabloid’s payoffs to police as the reason the allegations did not surface earlier.

“We are no longer talking here about politicians and celebrities, we are talking about murder victims, potentially terrorist victims, having their phones hacked into,” Cameron said.

“It is absolutely disgusting, what has taken place, and I think everyone in this House and indeed this country will be revolted by what they have heard.”

British media reported that the parents of two other schoolgirls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, who were murdered in a sensational 2002 case, had been informed by police that they were investigating whether the News of the World hacked their telephones.

Many Britons were horrified.

“It’s heartless and inconsiderate that they’d do it to victims and family of murder victims,” said Danny Wright, 25, of Liverpool.

He said it was wrong to hack into celebrities’ phones but far worse to target victims’ families “because of what they’ve been through.”

Bob Satchwell, executive director of the Society of Editors, said the Dowler case was crucial.

“That’s why the case has gotten so big,” he said. “If celebrities or politicians have their phones intercepted, that’s one thing, but the idea that they were doing this while a little girl was missing and a police inquiry was going on makes it a really gross intrusion.”

Satchwell said it has become politically sensitive not only because Cameron’s communications chief Andy Coulson was forced to resign because of his earlier stewardship of the tabloid, but because lawmakers opposed to Murdoch’s growing media power in Britain want to slow his takeover of other properties.

He said the hacking of Milly’s phone was revealed just as government regulators are preparing to decide whether Murdoch can take full control of British Sky Broadcasting.

“You have to ask yourself why that happened right now,” he said, cautioning that the public has yet to see clear evidence of illegal phone hacking except for two News of the World employees ― reporter Clive Goodman and investigator Glenn Mulcaire ― who have already served time in jail.

When police arrested Mulcaire, they seized 11,000 pages of notes, including the phone numbers of many suspected hacking victims. But in most cases the police have not yet made clear who was actually hacked.

Actor Hugh Grant said Wednesday that he had been asked to testify at a police inquiry into the hacking allegations. The actor has often claimed he believes his phone was hacked by News of the World.

1. If your phone was hacked, What is the most awful thing?

2. Do you think Korean media or Government uses the phone hacking?

   And Have you ever felt being hacked by someone?

3. How can we secure from hacking?

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