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Word: namdaemun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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...South Korean army, the other to find the government, which had evaporated. I was to have joined this group, but to my dismay, it had already left; perhaps I had taken too long in that last look around the house. Seoul was a human tide, surging toward Namdaemun, the city's Great South Gate, and I inched my jeep through it, fighting back an almost uncontrollable urge to jump out and hide somewhere. But at a crossroads, the others were waiting, and we pushed on into open country, along the rough gravel road snaking between paddy fields. Late that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nostalgia: Old Men, Old War | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

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