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Last Sunday, 1998 Olympian Dan Weinstein '03 captured a gold medal as part of the U.S. Men's 5000-meter Relay Team at the Short Track Speed Skating World Championships in Chonju, South Korea. It was the U.S.'s first relay gold in 25 years, when the U.S. won the inaugural 1976 championships in Champaign, Illinois...
Massive anti-government protest erupted Friday in 37 cities and continued early today in areas of Seoul and the cities of Kwangju, Chonju and Masan...
...Seel, who has studied 919 cases of stomach cancer at the Presbyterian Medical Center in Chonju, South Korea, described the annual ritual of making soy sauce and soya paste. Each winter, virtually every household makes loaves of soybean mash and stores them in a cool, dark place, often under the eaves, so that they will get moldy. To make sure that the mold develops, some Koreans buy a pure culture and spread it on their loaves. By early spring, a furry black or gray growth covers the mash. The Koreans scrape off this "exuberant fungus," as Seel described...
...been given gift subscriptions: a string of colored cutouts representing 21 departments of the magazine. A collection of these cards now hangs in a small hospital ward in Korea. The man who hung them is Dr. Paul S. Crane, American surgeon and head of the Presbyterian Medical Center in Chonju...
...trip to Chonju, TIME Correspondent James Greenfield visited Dr. Crane and reported on some of the work he is doing. Some of the children in his hospital are found wandering the city streets, abandoned by parents and relatives; some are simply dropped at the hospital's large, white wooden gates. A few weeks ago, the doctor found a baby who had been left on the seat of his parked jeep. The mission, built to accommodate 30 patients, now houses 150, of which 65 are homeless orphans...