ABOUT THE FIRST thing one sees on arrival at Seoul’s hyper-modern Incheon Airport after entry formalities is a screen animation depicting the capital’s landmark communications tower soaring over downtown Namsan Park, as the city of 12 million sprawls beneath it.
At first glance it looks like a tourist lure for Namsan’s scenic cable-car ride through bucolic greenery overlooking magnificent cityscapes.
Look again.
The animation reveals huge hairy hands – a metaphor for the financial crisis – that suddenly begin tearing great chunks out of Namsan.
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