HELPING HAND: Seeking to avert a `messy collapse' in North Korea, Seoul enters a summit this week to foster closer ties and increase investment in its neighbor
South Korea dreams of forging an economic community with North Korea, using trade and investment to foster closer ties and help smooth the way toward eventual unification of the divided peninsula.

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It's Thursday, so 18-year-old Dennis Tiangco is off to a bank to collect his weekly allowance, zapped by his mother -- who's working in Hong Kong -- to his electronic wallet: His cellphone.

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