Word: kimchi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Want canine with your kimchi? You bet, said 61% of Korean men polled on whether they ate dogmeat. That's a problem, though: during the Seoul Olympics last year, the government cleared dogmeat sellers out of downtown and implored people to refrain from feasting on Fido. The campaign was aimed mainly at polishing Korea's image among visiting foreigners but also reflected unease among some officials that dog eating was declasse for a world-class country...
...Korean pride is no less full of flavor. One of the most elegant museums in the city, approached through solemn wooden gates, is devoted not to Buddhist statuary, or to modern painting, or even to Korean celadon, but simply to the country's spiciest national treasure: pickled vegetables, or kimchi...
...Dong, a professor of government administration at Seoul National University: "To make the drive a success, the government must first build a society in which people can do business without seeking favoritism." Koreans, in fact, regard saba-saba as a ubiquitous national institution, as hard to do without as kimchi, the fiery pickled vegetables that spice their every meal...
...guests had plowed through Hearts of MacArthichoke d'Inchon and toyed with their Filet de Sole au Yalu River. They had survived bowls of kimchi, the mouth-searing concoction of pickled cabbage, hot peppers and garlic that is Korea's national dish. And now, with the speeches over, here they are, clustered around a piano in the Marriott Key Bridge Hotel, singing. Except for the gray in the hair, and a sagging of chests toward the belt line, the scene suggests (as it is meant to) a press billet in the city of Taegu, say, three decades...