South Korean cosmonauts - 2007?

Just noticed this in today's haul of the newsfeeds..

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/ht...410180013.html

"South Korea will select the nation's first two astronauts next May for
a space trip aboard Russia's spacecraft "Soyuz" to be launched in
October, 2007.
"According to the Science and Technology Ministry, the selected pair
will go through a 20-month long program at Russia's training center,
then travel to the International Space Station to conduct various
experiments for their 10-day trip in space."

It notes a price-tag of "more than $22 million"

This seems to imply that they intend to fly two crew on the same Soyuz
(presumably a taxi flight) - I'd have expected them to train two and fly
one (with the other serving as a backup) as ESA are doing.

Anyone know what happened to the plans to fly a Malaysian in 2005? It
was announced late 2003, piggybacking off an arms contract, IIRC...

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-Andrew Gray