Word: koreanness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flocking to Chung as word of his tasty food spreads. Friends who once scoffed at his restaurant plans want advice on how to set up their own catering joints. The definition of what's respectable in South Korea has changed fast since economic collapse punched a hole in the Korean Dream. When the country was vaulting to economic success, parents aspired to get their sons into white-collar jobs at giant chaebol, or conglomerates, like Samsung. A year of life under the yoke of a humiliating $58 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund has crushed all that. A bright...
...parents went to dinner with his parents and his dad interrogated the waitress for 15 minutes about the wine. And then on his birthday, his mom passed out at the table in the middle of her sentence telling my mom about estrogen replacement therapy because she is Korean and allergic to alcohol in large quantities and had had too much champagne and we all tried to pretend that nothing had happened even though she was lying passed out on the table. Then she revived and it was like nothing had happened...
...parents went to dinner with his parents and his dad interrogated the waitress for 15 minutes about the wine. And then on his birthday, his mom passed out at the table in the middle of her sentence telling my mom about estrogen replacement therapy because she is Korean and allergic to alcohol in large quantities and had had too much champagne and we all tried to pretend that nothing had happened even though she was lying passed out on the table. Then she revived and it was like nothing had happened...
Although North Korea is continuing to conduct underground military operations and missile tests, Cho pointed to the recent opening of North Korean borders to tourists as reason to hope for increased communication between the countries...
...most important change is the arrangement of tourism to the Kumgang Mountain...The visitors sang together with North Korean tour guides," Cho said. "No one could have imagined such a thing even one year...