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...overseas visitors ever make it to Seoul's all-night Noryangjin Fisheries Wholesale Market. And that's a shame, because when it comes to venues for a seafood binge, Noryangjin, at least as far as Asia goes, easily rivals Tokyo's renowned (and tourist-ridden) Tsukiji Market. Deliveries from Korea's 15 main fishing ports (and further afield) arrive at about 1 a.m. Wholesale auctions begin shortly after and last until 8 a.m.?but there are hundreds of retailers on the 66,000-square-meter site, too, with prices about 30% below Korean norms. You can buy whatever takes your...
...SENTENCED. YOO YOUNG CHUL, 33, whose murder and cannibalism of 20 people between September 2003 and July 2004 made him one of South Korea's most notorious serial killers; to death, in Seoul. Yoo, who began his crime spree after being divorced by his wife, targeted young women and wealthy senior citizens. His trial sparked renewed public support for the death penalty, although Korea has not hung a criminal since...
...with his employees over a meal of grilled pork and fiery Korean-style rice wine. His strategy is paying off. Debt is down 60%, and Eastel expects to eke out a small profit this year, while competitors are going bust. And the engineers are smiling again. --By Donald Macintyre/ Seoul. With reporting by Noel Yang
Summers incorrectly estimated that there were close to 1 million child prostitutes in Seoul, South Korea in the 1970s. He issued an apology promptly after the statement, saying he “misremembered” the statistic. There were only about 680,000 females between ages 10 and 19 living in Seoul at the time, according to a Texas A&M University website...
...stance has been harder to maintain as more information about the camps has been made public. An Hyuk, a former prisoner in the North who co-founded NKGulag, a Seoul-based human-rights organization, told TIME that the government "needs to find a way to deal with this issue or else it will lose a lot of credibility." Won Hee Ryong, an opposition legislator, says South Korea is "giving up our own values just to win the heart of North Korea." International interest in the camps is growing, as volumes of credible testimony about the prisons in the North pile...