SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean teen-ager Lee Jun-ho hopes to talk himself into a job someday -- in Chinese.
Snubbing offers from two local universities in favor of a language institute in downtown Seoul, the 19-year-old studies Chinese seven hours a day in hopes of winning a place at a prestigious school in Shanghai or Beijing.
Lee has embraced a growing trend in South Korea (news - web sites), where more and more young people are opting to focus their foreign language skills on Chinese rather than English, the traditional lingua franca of the business world.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=572&ncid=572&e=2&u=/nm/20040918/lf_nm/korea_chinese_dcI don't think anyone in the world thought this would happen.