Word: seoul
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Running around Seoul and looking for food to go? Then you're spoiled for choice. Street vendors in the South Korean capital tempt passersby with a tasty, Technicolor range of snacks, of which the most popular is o-deng. It has the consistency of a sausage, a distinct salty flavor, and is rumored to be made of fish. (Just don't ask what part-explanations from Koreans range from "the fishy part" to a blunt "I don't know.") Another favorite, and one of less obscure provenance, is duk bok gi-rice noodles as thick as cigars, smothered...
...illusion. Few sports and fewer sporting events have a truly global reach. In the U.S., most people, if asked, would tell you that Porto is a drink and Formula 1 a hair-care product. Bill Belichick may have revolutionized American football, but he could walk through the streets of Seoul or São Paulo unrecognized. Baseball's appeal is limited to North America, some (but not all) of the Caribbean islands, the northern littoral of South America, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Cricket is played in the countries that were once part of the British Empire...
...DIED. KU SANG, 85, one of Korea's most revered poets, who was hounded by authoritarian regimes on both sides of the divided peninsula; in Seoul. Ku's family moved to the north from Seoul when he was a boy, but after the communist takeover, officials deemed his writing "ideologically flawed," and he was forced to flee southward in 1947. In the early '50s, he was imprisoned for eight months by the South Korean regime for criticizing its abuses of power...
...allies in the party are already launching a counterattack. Two weeks after the election, influential solon Kim Bu Gyeom sat down with a group of party firebrands to tell them Roh can't waste time on ideological infighting when the real priority should be reviving the drooping economy. Still, Seoul hasn't confirmed that it will meet the June deadline for dispatching troops, and a spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff said last Friday: "We don't know when they're going." In his weekend speech, Roh promised to hit the ground running. "I'll tie up my shoes...
...DIED. PARK TAE-YOUNG, 63, governor of South Korea's South Cholla province, of injuries sustained from jumping off a bridge into the Han River; in Seoul. Park was under investigation by the Seoul District Public Prosecutor's Office for suspected corruption while he was president of the National Health Insurance Corp. His is the fourth apparent suicide in the past year of a Korean business or political leader suspected of graft or bribery...