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[08:00:14] MANISHA TANK, HOST: I'm Manisha Tank in Hong Kong. A warm welcome to News Stream. Good to have you with us.
North Korea releases a student held for months after saying he entered the country illegally to try and improve relations between the two Koreas.
Record floods in the U.S. state of South Carolina are being called the worst in a 1,000 years.
And from a self-published book to the top of the U.S. box office, we take a closer look at the science behind The Martian.
Hi there.
Now, in the last few hours, North Korea has released a New York University student held prisoner since April.
These new images of his release.
The South Korean is in his early twenties and has permanent residency in the United States.
He told CNN he entered North Korea illegally because he hoped he could improve relations between the two Koreas.
Well, let's go to South Korea now for the latest on this story. Kathy Novak joins us live from Seoul.
Have we, as yet, heard from him?
KATHY NOVAK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Not directly from him, no, Manisha. He was received by South Korean authorities. And we heard
from the South Korean unification ministry earlier today that this was indeed going to happen, that North Korean authorities had informed South
Korea that Won Moon-joo would be returned this afternoon. and we just had a statement from North Korea through its state news agency KCNA, a very
short one, simply saying that North Korea deported Won Moon-joo today in line with a humanitarian measure, adding that he had crossed into North
Korea illegally through the border with China.
So, that's all that we're hearing from the North Korean side. It seems to be painting this as a goodwill gesture that certainly could have
gone very differently for this young man. He broke the law in North Korea. He admitted in an interview to CNN that he wanted to be arrested. He
thought that this whole incident could bring about some kind of great event. It's not exactly clear how he thought that might happen.
But what he was saying at the time was that he wanted to tell the story of the ordinary college student who was able to go into North Korea
and be returned home safely.
But it doesn't seem to end there at this stage, though, Manisha, because South Korean officials will have questions of their own. He is a
U.S. permanent resident. He lives in New Jersey and goes to NYU. But he is a South Korean citizen. South Koreans are not allowed to simply go to
North Korea without permission. So now the National Intelligence Service here will be investigating whether he broke South Korean laws -- Manisha.
TANK: And there are other prisoners, aren't there, Kathy, that people are now asking questions about. Any thing on them?
NOVAK: No more news on them. The South Korean authorities were keen to bring up their cases, reminding North Korean that there are indeed three
other South Korean citizens who are continuing to be held there. They were given life sentences in the labor camps, convicted on spying charges. So
when you look at the cases of what they went through you can see just how lucky Won Moon-joo is to be released today. And South Korea will continue
to appeal for the release of those other three citizens, Manisha.
TANK: OK, Kathy, thank you very much for that. Our very own Kathy Novak live from Seoul with the latest on that story.
Now, diplomatic tension between Turkey and Russia appears to be easing this hour, this after Ankara intercepted a Russian war plane on Saturday.
The Turkish prime minister now says the violation of its airspace was a mistake. He says Russia confirms it respects Turkish borders and the
violation will not be repeated.
In the meantime, though, in the last 24 hours Russia says it took our nine key ISIS targets in Syria. The government claims these strikes took
out an ISIS command center and ammunition depots. While Russia claims its campaign in Syria is succeeding. Matthew chance reports the airstrikes are
stirring memories of another conflict that carried a very high cost.
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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Aleksander Sokolov (ph) remembers the pain of Russia's last foreign war against Islamist
fighters.
ALEKSANDER SOKOLOV, AFGHAN WAR VETERAN (through translator): A whole young generation were killed, young guys, patriots. And it's a shame for
our country.
CHANCE: In the 1980s, he was one of the tens of thousands of young conscripts sent by the Soviet Union to fight in Afghanistan: a grueling
quagmire that cost more than 15,000 Soviet lives.
[08:05:13] SOKOLOV (through translator): The sorrow the Afghan campaign brought to the Soviet nation to mothers and wives illustrates what
possible consequences Russia could face if it decided to enter further the conflict in Syria. It could create another Afghanistan. So, of course,
Russia would do everything not to let that happen.
CHANCE: But over 30 years later, and Russia's Syrian campaign is reawakening old sensitivities. His public support for airstrikes on
Islamic State, but the thought of Russia being sucked deeper into the Syrian conflict has many here concerned.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): I see myself as a pacifist. I'm against any wars. I'm for peace and anywhere it leads to another war
and aggressive actions in return. So, I'm against it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are, as businessmen, we are against any attacks which (inaudible) our business and what we do.
CHANCE: Do you think the conflict in Syria will have an impact on the economy here? Because it's going to be expensive, isn't it?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah, as one of the facts which will have its influence on the economy and the economical situation in our sphere in our
business. I believe it will have some impact. And that's what we wouldn't like to have.
CHANCE: This whole Syrian intervention is a huge gamble for Vladimir Putin. And could have an impact on the Russian president's popularity.
Unlike the war in Ukraine, which started last year and was extremely popular, few Russians have an emotional connection to Syria. A recent
opinion poll suggested only 14 percent favored direct Russian military involvement there with a massive 69 percent opposed their concerns the
Kremlin appears to be taking seriously.
On state controlled television, bulletins are filled with proud images of Russia's most advanced fighter jets in combat. To stir up public
support, officials have stressed no ground troops nor young conscripts, unlike in Afghanistan will be sent to fight.
And so, if some of those Russian soldiers end up being killed, being shot down in their war planes, do you would be supportive of that?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's their choice. It's only their choice. They've seen the consequences.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For me, I want to know what will be in the future. For now, I am not happy, I am not angry. I just want to see what will be in
the future. For now I can't say anything about it.
CHANCE: But you're reserving judgment?
UNIDENITIFIED MALE: Yes.
CHANCE: And how far Russia will be dragged into serious chaos remains unclear, but some ways have proved easier to enter than to leave -- Matthew
Chance, CNN, Moscow.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
TANK: A glimpse there of Russia's involvement in Afghanistan's past. Now we're going to talk about Afghanistan's present. The charity Medecins
San Frontieres is condemning the bombing of its hospital in Kunduz, calling it a war crime. An airstrike earlier on Saturday killed at least 23
people, 12 of them were staff members. And witnesses describe the horror of seeing patients burning in their beds.
The airstrike happened when U.S. war planes were carrying out attacks in the area.
Well, Medecins Sans Frontieres is demanding an independent investigation into the attack.
Let's go straight to Nic Robertson in Kabul for more on this story. And Nic, is it likely they're going to get that investigation?
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's what they're pushing for. The death toll from the attack, it continues to climb. 13
Doctors Without Borders staff now killed, 10 patients, 10 (inaudible) civilians in the hospital, three of them children also killed. That's a
total of 23 dead now.
What Doctors Without Borders is saying, and they really are ramping up their rhetoric on this, which is an indication of just how outraged they
are about the situation and also of the broader implications that they see, that there must be, as they say, a transparent international independent
investigation, because the consequences of somebody essentially being able to strike a hospital in a combat area has implications across the globe,
they say, and for medical staff, not just of Doctors Without Borders, but so many other non-governmental organizations and hospital staff in so many
countries around the world.
They say -- Doctors Without Borders say -- they're absolutely disgusted with what the Afghan government has said that the Taliban were
using the hospital area as a base. They say this utterly contradicts what the United States have said that the hospital could have been collateral
damage.
What NATO has said here is that they believe that the airstrike was specifically targeting Taliban who were firing on U.S. special forces who
were assisting and advising Afghan forces in the area. The area, they say, close to the hospital, that's how they describe it.
So, we're also hearing that NATO itself here is going to have its own international investigation. It's a rapid, quick assessment, a casualty
assessment team will look at it. And they say they should have some results within days. The U.S. Secretary of Defense is saying that the U.S.
investigation -- U.S. military investigation will be transparent and he also said that it will be -- it will hold people accountable, because
people need to be held accountable.
[08:10:38] TANK: And do you detect, Nic, that there's a sense that any investigation and this sort of offer of accountability, as it were,
will actually go far enough that it will play all the way through?
ROBERTSON: Well, certainly we can expect the U.S. military investigation to start at the beginning and go to the end. We can expect
NATO to do the same. Theirs is more of a quick assessment. And I think that the way it'll be judged by Doctors Without Borders and others will be
on how much of the investigations are made public.
What they are calling for is that every step of the way, every part of the investigation should be laid open, not the final report and the final
conclusions and whatever accountability there is, but every step of the way. And I think that's the way that it's going to be judged.
There is such a risk that Doctors Without Borders feel in this situation, which they say could seems to them constitute a war crime, that
unless this is very carefully and clearly held up to the light and examined for every fallibility and every mistake in every part of the situation
here, that this has negative implications going forward. And for them, that's a very -- and for so many other people, will be something very, very
troubling.
So, it's going to be -- the analysis is going to have to be done on what does the investigation look like and how much information as that
investigation goes through is made public?
TANK: Absolutely. And serious implications across the board as well for the governments involved too.
OK, Nic, thank you very much for that. Nic with the update for us live from Kabul.
We want to bring you up to date on some news that's just come out -- just come into us. Twitter has named a new CEO and it's no surprise, it's
the co-founder Jack Dorsey who will now officially take over the microblog service. Dorsey has served as Twitter's interim CEO since the resignation
of Dick Costello in July. Dorsey will also continue as the head of mobile payments firm Square.
Coming up here on News Stream, new restrictions on who gets into the old city of Jerusalem. This after a fresh wave of violence. Details on
that ahead.
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[08:15:34] TANK: In Jerusalem's old city, Israeli authorities are taking extreme action, banning most Palestinians from entering the old
city. The action, taken after a knife and gun attack, killed two Israelis and injured two others.
Increased violence between Palestinians and Israelis has escalated tensions to new heights in recent weeks. Just last week an Israeli couple
was shot and killed in front of their four children. And a week before that, a Palestinian teenager was shot by Israeli soldiers at a military
checkpoint. She later died at hospital.
The latest developments are shocking and we should warn you may be difficult for many to watch. The overnight events captured on cellphone
video scenes that not only depict the horror of what happened, but also threatened to further inflame tensions.
CNN's Erin McLaughlin reports.
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(SHOUTING)
ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Panic in the old city of Jerusalem. About 8:30 in the evening --
(SHOUTING)
MCLAUGHLIN: ...screams of a dying rabbi. Israeli authorities say, moments before, he had attempted to defend an Israeli couple and their
infant from a stabbing by a 19-year-old Palestinian man. The subsequent attack on the rabbi captured on shaky cell phone footage by a Palestinian
shop owner. Israeli Police say by the time they arrived, the attacker had grabbed the rabbi's gun.
"Now they will kill him," says an off-camera voice in Arabic.
(SHOUTING)
(GUNFIRE)
MCLAUGHLIN: The shooting happens out of frame. Israeli police say when the teenager fired, police shot and killed him. He was later identified as
a Mohammad Mohabi (ph), a Palestinian from the West Bank. His last Facebook posting, "According to what I see, the third infatada has started," he
wrote.
The rabbi and the Israeli father died of their stab wounds.
(SHOUTING)
MCLAUGHLIN: In that charged atmosphere, a group of far right Israelis gather outside the Damascus gate of the old city.
(SHOUTING)
MCLAUGHLIN: "People want revenge," they say.
(SHOUTING)
UNIDENTIFIED BOY: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
MCLAUGHLIN: In Hebrew, a young boy shouts, "Death to Arabs."
(SHOUTING)
MCLAUGHLIN: Then two hours later, a block away, another incident captured on a cell phone. Another 19-year-old Palestinian man is seen
running along a tram line outside the old city --
(SHOUTING)
MCLAUGHLIN: -- followed by Israelis shouting, "He's a terrorist, shoot him, shoot him." In another video, you see the police arrive and you hear
seven gunshots and the man falls to the ground.
(GUNFIRE)
(SHOUTING)
MCLAUGHLIN: You see a police officer is pointing his gun.
(SHOUTING)
MCLAUGHLIN: Voices off camera ask, "Did he stab someone?" Someone answers, "No, he did not succeed." "Who did he try to attack?" Israeli
police say the 19-year-old man was shot holding a knife in his hand, covered in blood. Police say he had just stabbed a 15-year-old Israeli boy.
The shooting prevented additional attacks.
Palestinians say he'd attacked no one, just got into a verbal altercation with the Israelis protesting outside the Damascus gate. They
say the Israeli protesters simply wanted him dead.
He was later identified as Sali Alane (ph) of east Jerusalem. His friends say he was peaceful, that he loved fashion and wanted to be a
model. His father says he was executed in cold blood.
(SHOUTING)
MCLAUGHLIN: For days, there have been running clashes as Palestinians protest restrictions that prohibit Palestinian men under the age of 50 from
worshipping at the mosque. Far right Israelis, too, have been visiting the mosque compound. Now stone throwing and tear gas have escalated to
stabbings and gunfire. The anger and passions captured on video, video that will likely make tensions worse in this already tense city.
Erin McLaughlin, CNN, Jerusalem.
(SHOUTING)
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TANK: Ahead here on News Stream, historic levels of flooding in the U.S. state of South Carolina, some say the worst in hundreds of years. How
people there are coping coming up.
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[08:23:18] TANK: Talk about being starstruck. Millions of Americans flocked to the theaters this weekend to see The Martian, a thriller
starring Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars.
Well, box office estimates show it came in just shy of the 2013 space epic Gravity that holds the record for top October opening in the U.S. of
all time. But that may change when the final numbers come in.
So, for decades people have been dreaming of putting humans on the Red Planet. With The Martian, we get a sci-fi glimpse of what life may be like
up there. And as Rachel Crane explains, some of what appears in the movie is based on existing NASA technology.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
RACHEL CRANE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Andy Weir's book "The Martian" blew my mind. And now it's getting the Hollywood treatment.
(MUSIC)
CRANE: It's the story of Mark Watney, an astronaut who gets left behind by his crew on Mars, and it turns out, there's some science fact
intertwined in this tale of science fiction. NASA has a manned mission to Mars planned for the 2030s, and it's developing right now the technologies
to pull it off, many of which we see in one version or another in the film.
MATT DAMON, ACTOR: Surprise.
CRANE: Take, for instance, the habitat Watney is housed in, aka the hab. Mars is a dusty, freezing place with tons of radiation. In order to
shield the astronauts from those elements, NASA is developing structures like 3-D printed habitats and inflatable modules.
There's also a structure at Johnson Space Center that can host astronauts for two weeks. And they're also funding missions like High Seas
where researchers train for long-duration deep-space missions in a dome on the top of a volcano in Hawaii.
We all have to eat, and Watney, being stranded on Mars for hundreds of days, needs to figure out a way to grow his own food. His crop of choice?
Potatoes.
DAMON: I am the greatest botanist on this planet.
CRANE: In reality, NASA is growing lettuce on the international space station and astronauts just took their first bite.
Mars' atmosphere doesn't have enough oxygen, so Watney needs to make his own. On ISS, astronauts use an oxygen generation system that splits
water into hydrogen and oxygen through electrolysis. NASA is also looking to produce oxygen on Mars using microbes that give off oxygen as a
byproduct.
In space, no drop of water goes to waste. Watney actually drinks his urine. Now, it's filtered, and that's what the astronauts do on the
international space station. They filter their tears, their urine, even their sweet. NASA is working on making those filters more efficient. And
the recent discovery of flowing water on Mars could be a game changer for how astronauts would bet water on the red planet.
NASA is also working on space suits, rovers, propulsion systems and power sources, many of which we see versions of in the film.
While on the surface it's a block buster movie, "The Martian" gives us a glimpse of what a journey to Mars might look like.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TANK: So, it isn't just sci-fi, it could actually be real.
Well, before The Martian became a Hollywood blockbuster, it was an internet sensation. It was a novel written by Andy Weir, a computer
programmer. He first published it on his blog chapter by chapter and it was all for free. And when fans asked him for an ebook version, he put it
on the Kindle store for just .99, because that's the lowest price Amazon would let him charge.
It then became a top sci-fi title on Amazon and was eventually published by a major book company. And now, it's the best selling fiction
on the New York Times list and not to mention, of course, a major movie.
So, he's done pretty well.
Still to come here on News Stream, extreme weather has brought tragedy to southeast France, we're going to have the latest on that for you.
And beauty is a booming business in South Korea, but not just with the ladies.
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[08:30:32] TANK: I'm Manisha Tank in Hong Kong. And you're watching News Stream. These are your world headlines right now.
North Korea says it deported a New York University student as a humanitarian gesture. The South Korean has been held since April. He told
CNN he entered the north illegally to try to improve relations between the two Koreas.
South Korea says it will see if he violated its national security law.
The charity Medecins Sans Frontieres is condemning the bombing of its hospital in northern Afghanistan as a war crime. And an airstrike early on
Saturday killed at least 23 people, 13 of them were staff members. It happened when U.S. war planes were carrying out attacks in the area. the
Pentagon says it's investigating. MSF is calling for an independent probe.
A Polish priest has been fired by the Vatican after he announced is in a same-sex relationship. This comes as the Vatican begins a three week
meeting to discuss issues facing families. The priest says he wanted to bring the issue of homosexuality to the synods (ph) of attention.
Twitter's new CEO has a familiar name. Jack Dorsey will take over at the service that he co-founded, but he faces a series of challenges as
Twitter stocks slides and the company struggles to find a good business model.
Well, Samuel Burke has much more for us on the story. He joins me now live from London.
Samuel, OK, it's great to get a familiar face, but here's a guy who has a mountain to climb.
SAMUEL BURKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, but it makes you think of Steve Jobs, and that's what everybody is saying in Silicon Valley.
Remember, just like Steve Jobs, Jack Dorsey created a revolutionary tech company, which everybody agrees on, but then he was pushed out of the
company and now he's back. The big question mark is can he do what Steve Jobs did and turn this return into a triumphant return? Can he make a
product that many more people need, because remember just a few hundred million people use Twitter. And that's not much in this day and age. And
can he make the stock price soar.
Now, the big question mark around him previously was could he be CEO of Square and Twitter. Apparently that's been answered. People are OK
with that apparently, because now he has the job.
The last time I talked to Jack Dorsey for an interview I asked him at that time what it was like between Twitter and Square, his other technology
company. And this is what he told me.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JACK DORSEY, CEO, TWITTER, SQUARE: For a year I was doing half and half, but there was only for a year and that was the intention. And I now
-- I go every Tuesday night I have dinner with Dick, our CEO, and I meet a few folks on the management team on Tuesday, but most of my time is at
Square, but the benefit is both companies are right next door to each other, so it's always easy when I need to pop over there.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BURKE: So, he referenced Dick Costolo there, no longer the CEO, obviously, because now Jack is CEO again.
But listening back, he was really paving the way for this return. He makes it sound very easy, Manisha. I don't know about you going between
one place and another, being CEO of two tech companies. He makes it sound very suave. And we'll see if he can really do it. But looking back, I
think he was really plotting this all along to make this Steve Jobs type comeback.
TANK: Yeah, I mean, a lot of CEOs, they like to put their mark on a business. If you can think of anything that he might want to do or
anything maybe that he's hinted at, I don't know. But what sort of a mark do you think he'll want to make?
BURKE: He has to change the Twitter product. It's not good enough the way it is now to attract the 1.5 billion users that Facebook has. And
that's its chief rival.
So, some of the things that he had talked to me about in the past. He had told me he wants to make the timeline in Twitter instead of in
chronological order the way it is now, make it more like Facebook so that the most important tweets will be seen up top. And just recently we've
seen leaked reports that Twitter is planning to make the tweets longer than 140 characters, something that he fought off before when he was the
previous CEO of Twitter. Now that he's back, it looks like he's willing to concede that there might actually have to be some changes in the length of
tweets to get people more engaged in the system.
So, he's going to have to go in and make crucial changes very quickly, but to that end we've already seen him make some changes as interim CEO.
Some investors have even said he's moving too fast. Those were, of course, investors who supported him.
There's going to be a lot of shakeup today in one of his first tweets when he announced his news, Manisha. He said we're going to be making
changes at the board. So this is just the first news out of Twitter with much more to come. And we'll be on it the rest of the day on CNN.
TANK: I'm sure. I'm sure. We'll also be watching the share price very closely. OK, thank you so much, Samuel Burke, for filling us in on
those -- well, the not so big change, but the important change at Twitter. Thanks a lot.
Now, parts of both France and the United States has been hit hard by floods. Heavy rain swept through the French Riveria over the weekend.
French police say 19 were killed and two people remain missing.
Wet weather is also being blamed for seven deaths in the United States. South Carolina's governor says it's the worst flooding her state
has ever seen. Residents in some areas are being told to stay indoors as more rain is forecast.
Well, with more on what could be headed towards South Carolina, CNN meteorologist Chad Myers joins us now.
And this is quite incredible what we've been witnessing there.
[08:35:32] CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Truly has, Manisha. And we are seeing rainfall like we saw in the central prefectures of Japan when
the typhoon there kind of moved on up and just dumped rain. Well, there was a very large hurricane in the Atlantic ocean named Joaquin, almost a
category five: 155 miles per hour, about 280 kilometer per hour storm. Now it did not hit the U.S., but it did hit the Bahamas. It brushed Bermuda.
But significant big-time damage in some of the outer islands of the Bahamas here.
This is what happened. The rain came down. It got picked up by a different low pressure center to the west of the Carolinas and pushed
rainfall into Columbia, into Raleigh into the North Carolina itself and all the way to the Outer Banks.
This is a flatter area compared to the French Riveria. The French Riveria had the flash flooding where they had about 200 millimeters of rain
in just a few hours, all of a sudden that water rain downhill.
This is a long-term flood where there were 600 millimeters of rainfall over three days. And it is still raining in some spots. Mount Pleasant,
South Carolina, that's near a town called Charleston, South Carolina, at 600 millimeters of rainfall. And it just continues to come down. There
could be another could of inches.
There is the hurricane. It moved away really very close to Bermuda. But notice that is a secondary low not associated with that, that made the
rain continue for hours and hours and hours. And really, we watched it all weekend. It was days and days and days. The rain just never stopped.
It was the moisture plume from the south, tropical moisture. It felt like Singapore. It felt like Malaysia here in southeast and parts of North
America. All of that humidity was in the air. And it got pushed up the mountains. And it all had to fall out. And it's still falling out right
now.
So, let's get right to it. I'll kind of take you across the geography of South Carolina. We call this the upstate. This is 1,000 meters high.
This is the low country, this is sea level, zero meters high. While the rain continued to roll up to the high country, to upstate and it rained and
rained and rained.
So, all of this rainfall, Manisha, eventually has to get all the way down the rivers, all the way down the streams, and then eventually into the
Atlantic Ocean, but that may take days, and in some cases weeks. This flooding will go on for a long time.
TANK: OK. Chad, thank you very much for putting us in that picture. Really, really dramatic times for them there. Thank you, Chad Myers.
MYERS: You're welcome.
TANK: Now, serums, facials, Botox not commonplace among South Korean men. After the break, we'll tell you why they're spending big to look
their best. Stay with us.
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[08:40:00] TANK: So, beauty is big business around the world, including in South Korea. And there men as well as women are big consumers
of skin care products and more. Our Kathy Novak has the story.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
NOVAK: Chris Hwang (ph) wants to stop the clock. South familiar ladies?
CHRIS HONG, SOUTH KOREAN BUSINESSMAN: The cream will reduce the pain from the treatment.
NOVAK: The treatment: Botox. He gets it every six months to slow what's coming: the big 40. And it doesn't end there: laser treatment also
zaps away the years. All to help him compete.
HONG: If you work at a company like my company, most of the employee's ages is only 30. And I don't want to be looked as older.
NOVAK: Older than this guy. Mingook Kim works with Hong. He's only 31. And he's already stocking up on the latest serums, moisturizers and
cleansers.
MINGOOK KIM, SOUTH KOREAN BUSINESSMAN: It actually costs a lot. It's -- I bought like five products and they cost me about a little more than
200 dollars.
NOVAK: According to market researcher Euro Monitor, South Korean men spend more per capita on skin care than men anywhere else in the world.
There are even amateur online tutorials on how to apply the products.
The men's grooming industry is worth more than a billion dollars. And it's forecast to grow by almost 50 percent in the next five years. One way
to get more men buying cosmetics: get them while they're young.
Practically all of them have to serve in the armed forces, so there's one kind of makeup they all need.
So what do you think? For those doing compulsory military service, this camouflage is said to be gentler on the skin than standard issue.
And once you get used to clearer skin, there's no turning back. Take it from Chris Hong.
So between the two of you, you and your wife, who do you think spends more time and money and effort on beauty.
HONG: It's me.
(LAUGHTER)
NOVAK: How is that for equal opportunity?
Kathy Novak, CNN, Seoul.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TANK: And why not?
And that's it from News Stream for now. I'm Manisha Tank. But don't go anywhere. World Sport with Christine Macfarlane is up next.
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