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December 26, 1997

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As Korea Faces Economic Crisis, Emigrants Feel a Sad Vindication

By Kirk Johnson

South Korean immigrants in US, who watched homeland prosper from afar during past decade, find themselves in unaccustomed position of feeling relatively more well-off, as South Korea tries to dig out from staggering currency and economic crisis; many say humbling of homeland has produced unexpected flush of vindication, showing them that burdens of immigrating, such as learning new culture and language, were not mistake; say they feel tortured, distressed and ashamed over country's economic plight; have thrown themselves into various local efforts to show solidarity with austerity drive back home; photos (M)

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 24, 1997, covering December 26, 1997.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Sevens by Garth Brooks

    Sevens

    Garth Brooks

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    3
  2. 2
    Album cover for Let's Talk About Love by Celine Dion

    Let's Talk About Love

    Celine Dion

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    4
  3. 3
    Album cover for Higher Ground by Barbra Streisand

    Higher Ground

    Barbra Streisand

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    5
  4. 4
    Album cover for You Light Up My Life -- Inspirational Songs by LeAnn Rimes

    You Light Up My Life -- Inspirational Songs

    LeAnn Rimes

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    14
  5. 5
    Album cover for Tubthumper by Chumbawamba

    Tubthumper

    Chumbawamba

    Last week
    7
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    12

Notable Births

Tamara Zidanšek

1997Tamara Zidanšek, Slovenian tennis player[†]

Tamara Zidanšek is a Slovenian professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings of world No. 22 in singles and No. 47 in doubles by the WTA, and has won one singles title and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour and three singles titles along with one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. She has also won 17 titles in singles and six in doubles on the ITF Circuit.

Notable Deaths

Cahit Arf

1997Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician and academic (born 1910)[†]

Cahit Arf was a Turkish mathematician. He is known for the Arf invariant of a quadratic form in characteristic 2 in topology, the Hasse–Arf theorem in ramification theory, Arf semigroups and Arf rings.

Cornelius Castoriadis

1997Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek economist and philosopher (born 1922)[†]

Cornelius Castoriadis was a Greek-French philosopher, sociologist, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group.

Historical Context for December 26, 1997

In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]