Word: mokpo
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...reality. Addressing a gigantic rally in Seoul that climaxed the anniversary celebration, South Korea's President, Kim Dae Jung, suggested just that. If a mere 20 or 30 kilometers of missing railway track between South and North were restored, Kim observed, "you could board the train in Pusan or Mokpo, travel through China and the Maritime Province of Siberia and reach all the way to central Asia and on to Paris." That would be a train ride I'd love to come back to Korea to take. But Korean unification--tongil, the word that was on every South Korean...
...creates in Coils a mystical web of symbolic beings. There is Yorunomado, a figure of his imagination, which converses with Los, Blake personified. Niemonjima is the unknown desire for woman, and Mokpo is the heterosexual dogma, the "tool of social manipulation." Together these forces weave throughout Eshleman's life to create a harsh, painful poetic landscape...
...rate has quadrupled since April's revolution, the students of 30 schools were out on strike. In Pusan, 1,000 brawling university students smashed up the offices of the daily Pusan Ilbo to show their displeasure with a story condemning student demonstrations. And in the port city of Mokpo, 500 tax-hating merchants discovered that while they had been sacking the local revenue office, their own shops had been burned down by 1,000 shrieking stevedores, enraged by alleged "profiteering...
...clock in Seoul's dim, drafty railroad station showed 10:55 p.m. last week as some 3,800 holiday travelers waited restlessly for the last train to Mokpo in southwest Korea. The train was already five minutes late because the railroad, under the press of crowds leaving Seoul for the Lunar New Year celebrations, had sold 2,300 more tickets than the 18-coach train could carry. At that moment on Track 3 underneath the waiting room, the engineer of the Mokpo train blew a long whistle blast to signal switch crews to add more coaches...
Little by little the picture was enlarged. At Wonju 1,000 to 2,000 had been killed, including five U.S. officers, at Suchon 280, at Mokpo 500, at Yangpyong 700, at Chongju 2,400, at Yosu...