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After stormy weather appeared to have caused the death of one rescue diver, the South Korean military temporarily halted its search for 46 missing sailors from the Cheonan, a 1,200-ton naval ship that sank in the Yellow Sea on March 26 after an explosion ripped a hole in its hull. Despite initial suspicion of North Korean involvement, authorities have deferred judgment until the ship is recovered...
What: Dinner and dessert is on the Harvard Korean Association, as they provide entertainment with traditional Korean fan dancing, modern K-pop adaptations and excitement with special guest AADT. Tickets are $8 pre-sale at the box office and $10 at the door...
Every movement needs a creation myth, and the gourmet-food-truck movement has a really good one. In 1996, Roy Choi, a law-school dropout and a general disappointment to his Korean-immigrant parents, was watching the Food Network one afternoon, eating Cheetos while coming down from some serious drugs, when suddenly Emeril Lagasse started talking directly to him. "He came out of the TV," Choi recalls, "and said, 'Smell this. Touch this. Taste this. Do something...
Choi, who does his proselytizing from a fleet of culinary clunkers, became the leader of this movement not just by creating a whole new cuisine--a mashup of Korean and Mexican food that has given rise to short-rib tacos and kimchi quesadillas--but by dishing out punk attitude. Peer inside one of his Kogi taco trucks (the name is Korean for meat), and you'll see him yelling in Spanglish, baseball hat askew, arms tatted up, hands flying like a rapper's. This is performance art, and people often wait in hour-long lines for the privilege of snarfing...
...which turned the truck's mysterious whereabouts into a hipster happening.) Choi's amazing food has become one of the movement's signature successes. Kogi made $2 million in revenue in its first year, on checks averaging $13 per person. It has given rise to a number of copycat Korean-taco trucks and inspired the Baja Fresh chain to add short-rib tacos to its menu...