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...carousing. These roving canteens usually serve tak go chi, or chicken skewers, the staple stomach-liner for Seoul's legions of soju-imbibing salarymen. More adventurous eaters, meanwhile, will want to keep an eye out for pig intestines stuffed with glass noodles; octopus tentacles; and the infamous bon dae gi-boiled silkworm larvae. To the uninitiated gourmand, a simmering bucket of larvae might look-and smell-distinctly less than alluring, but there's no better way to get a quick taste of everyday life on the streets of Seoul...
...some acts of abuse that would have given de Sade appreciative shivers?and, most important, an expert's joy in expanding and subverting the rules of genre. The gnarled story line, also familiar to fans of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, careers from 1988 (when the main character, Oh Dae Su, is kidnapped and confined without being told what his crime is or how long he will be held) to 2003 (when Oh is released, only to be toyed with by his unknown torturer) and back to 1979 (when Oh and his assailant were schoolboys) for the revelation of many...
...Three subsequent presidential elections seemed to substantiate those hopes. The victor of the 1992 contest, Kim Young Sam, was a lifelong civilian politician, not a military surrogate. The 1997 election went to Kim Dae Jung, a lifelong dissident politician. And the 2002 election led to the inauguration of Roh, a human-rights lawyer and outspoken critic of the "old style" of South Korean cronyism...
...then we might think back and recognize that there had been warning signs of the impending breakdown. So it is with South Korea's democratic system: signs of trouble were there, whether or not we cared to take them seriously. We might now remember how former President Kim Dae Jung?that avowed champion of openness, law and democracy?launched tax probes against local media, a move many saw as an attempt to intimidate publications that criticized his policies. (In 1999, the International Press Institute in Vienna even sent the future Nobel Laureate a letter begging him to desist from...
...February ? Roh is sworn in as the country's ninth President, succeeding the founder of his Millennium Democratic Party (MDP), Kim Dae Jung...