Word: koreanness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chugging along the Kangnung highway on the east coast of South Korea threw its headlights briefly on a group of young men sitting by the roadside. The area is about 75 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone and has more than once been the scene of infiltration by North Korean spies and saboteurs. Taxi driver Lee Jin Gyu noted the short haircuts and similar clothing on the young men and began to wonder about them. After dropping off his passenger, he drove back to the spot. The men had left, but he took a careful look around. "I went down...
...indeed a submarine, a gray-hulled North Korean Sang-O class, 325-ton boat, and it was jammed onto a reef, rolling helplessly in the surf. Lee's discovery touched off one of postwar South Korea's biggest manhunts as tens of thousands of troops pursued up to 26 North Koreans who had been aboard the sub. By week's end 20 of them were dead, one was in custody and at least one, possibly seven, was still at large in the area's wild mountains. In separate clashes with North Koreans, three South Korean soldiers were killed...
Around the same time, a Crimson reporter referred to the traditional Korean music performed at an ethnic studies rally as "banging on drums and metal lids." An astute reader complained that such a description seemed like an anthropological description of a Martian ritual and not a celebration of the heritage of Harvard's Korean-Americans...
McCann will serve as the Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Literature. The position will be funded by the foundation...
...poem includes, by and large, just the events one might expect: personal landmarks, such as learning to read, meeting famous poets in college and getting married, as well as some historical events, such as the Korean War and the moon landing. No elaborate premises here, no conceits; just snapshots from a whole life, perhaps the life most representative of American poetry in our time...