Top seven exotic Korean dishes for foreigners
2010-10-04
Fermented skate
Fermented skate is considered a main dish for big parties in Jeolla Province, southern in Korea. But its tangy flavor doesn’t attract many to try. Some at the Korea Herald found event the scent of it highly challenging.
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Police put weight on electrical problems for Busan fire
2010-10-04
Police investigating Friday’s fire in a 38-story apartment building in Busan are putting weight on the possibility of electrical problems as the cause of the fire, officials said Saturday.
The fire first started in a locker room for the cleaning staff on the fourth floor of the building located near the southern port city’s most popular Haeundae beach, the police told reporters during a press briefing.
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Man loses 90kg on chocolate diet
2010-10-04
A guy in Florida lost more than 90 kilograms in 16 months by eating chocolate, the Daily Mail reported.
Peter Ajello, whose weight used to exceed 192 kilograms, consumed 24,000 calories per day. But he made up his mind to lose weight after he suffered a diabetic stroke, it reported. The 37-year-old confessed that felt he might one day say goodbye to the world then.
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Busty Heart performs karate with her massive breasts
2010-10-01
Viewers watched astonished as she used her boobs to smash planks of wood and then crush beer cans and smash melons on Germany's “2010 Das Supertalent” – Germany’s version of Britain's Got Talent, British Metro reported on Wednesday.
Susan Sykes, 49-year-old bust model, performed karate with her massive breasts which smashed beer cans, a baseball bat, wood bricks and a watermelon.
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KT, Intel to reveal WiBro laptops
2010-10-01
KT Corp. and Intel said Thursday they would unveil laptops and netbooks on Friday which could connect to the wireless broadband Internet (WiBro) service through an embedded chipset.
KT also said it will additionally begin the high-speed WiBro service in the country’s five major cities Busan, Daegu, Gwangju, Daejeon and Ulsan and express highways beginning October in a bid to expand its WiBro coverage to 82 cities nationwide, which is 85 percent of the population, by March 2011.
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Cola injection removes gastric stone
2010-10-01
A team of Korean doctors reported recently that they have succeeded in removing a huge gastric bezoar from a 61-year-old man’s stomach by injecting cola.
The man, surnamed Kim, was admitted to a local hospital, complaining upper abdominal pain. He had taken digestive medicines four days earlier but the pain had gotten worse.
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North Korea releases photo of heir
2010-10-01
North Korea unveiled a portrait of its next apparent leader for the first time on its main newspaper Thursday, clearly confirming the reclusive state’s plans to shift power from the ailing Kim Jong-il to his youngest son.
The black-and-white photograph, printed on Pyongyang’s main Rodong Sinmun and carried by the North’s state media monitored in Seoul, showed a somewhat chubby Kim Jong-un, who closely resembles his father as previously stated by a sushi chef who formerly served the Kims.
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